Arena motivation
wSWeaponX
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I find arena so boring and monotonous, but I need the battle chips. What's some things that keep you guys motivated to grind it out?
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Yeah you're right I guess, it's just so repetitive to me at times
Good luck! I should start farming them too for the 16th
The bad parts: it is monotonous, and for decent rewards and to collect the chips you have to play A LOT of fights.
To be honest, arena is no different than any other part of MCOC. You are winning fights and moving on. The only reasons arena feels different than questing is that you are not moving through a map so you don't have the illusion of progress and that to roll through a map and kill a boss at the end makes you feel more accomplishment and completion. Never mind that you are probably going to start at the beginning of the map and roll another path to that same boss again in a few.
Just try to trick yourself into thinking of it as making progress through a map. That's what I do. It works for me...sometimes:)
Oh yeh, arena.
So I play arena when there is nothing else to do.
Yeah, this makes sense. To me, I try to shoot for milestones in both arenas (basic and featured) usually you can get ~1,000 4* shards and ~600 5* shards per arena, not to mention a lot of BC, PHC shards, and units. Additionally, if you decide to go for a featured, that's a full dupe and 800 5* shards (1-10% is 400 5* shards). Arena is just a great way to build up shards for champs. 1-10% in featured (~4.2M; 4-5 runs over 3 days for me) is 1,600 4* shards and 800 5* shards a week. You can get another 1,000 4* shards and 400 5* shards per week if you hit ~1.7M in basic arena, too. It does require some investment, but pretty stellar rewards if you play it right.
If you focus on each individual fight, it can get extremely boring. But that's like going for a jog and counting the steps. I tend to grind while doing other things: watching TV, Netflix binging, watching youtube streamers, listening to music. I tend to zone individual fights, and think in terms of larger milestones. I don't mean point milestones, I think in terms of things like "now let's use up all my 5/50s; now let's see if I can grind out all of my 4/40s; now lets switch to the 3* arena and see if I can use up all my 2300+ 3* champs; now lets see if I can use up all the rest of my 3* champs." I pick mini-goals to reach for that involve maybe a dozen rounds or so, like reaching for McDonalds during your run, then pushing to the bridge, then seeing how long it takes to get to the gas station, rather than counting individual steps.
It tends to go by faster when I do that. And if I find myself stressing over the grind, I take a short break rather than try to push through the stress. I try to grind while relaxed and my mind is engaged on other things.
Unless I lose a fight. Then I focus on the rest to guarantee winning the round. Then I go back to zoning.
What makes you think 80% of the top spots are cheaters?
For normal people like me it is immensely frustrating, the matchmaking seems to have been ramped to silly levels since the update, if you rarely get long streaks like me, sometimes some of the match ups are utterly impossible, there seems to pattern to stand despite all efforts placing certain ranks at certain stages, once you get past fight 12, death squads are inevitable, whereas in the pasts you could navigate it a little easier.
I was doing the 2* yesterday, got to a level when I was picking a 1 with 2 2*s and came up against a team of guys that were all 400PI above me and obviously 600 ahead of the 1.
This is called impossible, not gameplay. For players who struggle with baiting, arena is simply frustration, nothing more.
What's so special about the 16th? Anything new? I always use it up soon as I get 20K, if there're awesome rewards, I will save it up
1) 834 ultron, 779 wolvie, 679 Cap
2) 859 thor, 578 iron fist, 530 hulk
you should really be working on the 3* arena though.
When the 5* Pun crystals get added for anyone whos beaten what theyve offered for Act 5