Is there anything I can do to help relieve the pressure of my super competitive fleet arena?
I have a mostly high relic GR fleet that is struggling to make top 100, in comparison, guildmates from around the same age are still dealing with Chimeras in the top 20-50.
This doesn't seem fair right?
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I will trade you my arena.
Yeah that sounds like not good times.
Right! So wait until they lower the crystal output for squad and fleet arena and they gonna switch it over to something else which will be fair.
I know it'll be something bad, but go for it.
Also didn't Devs split up arenas in the past? Or was that a special whale case scenario?
One fleet arena was split in two. Special scenario. Only happened this once.
Yes, I am in the fleet shard that got split and it is still extremely competitive even after the split.
Have you experimented with different starting lineups? HT and JKA will always start, but 5s or AT or Rex as the third can change the turn order in your favor. It helps if you can get your JKA to go first and getting GKs aoe daze off first is a nice bonus.
Also, if you’re that far back it might be beneficial to spend on a couple refreshes so you’re not fighting the same people and find a sweet spot where you don’t get rolled back. I can only speak for my own shard, but I don’t see a lot of movement of different players in the top 20.
ha. I was just making the post that your team is "mostly" high-relic (and higher=better). For actual team advice as others said it would help to post the team/levels/starting v RI/etc
Folks get stuff without spending, y'know.
...and yes to your question, it's not fair. It's really crappy that some people can do 2 battles for first and other have to struggle to make top 100 with the same or an even a better fleet.
Because of this there are loads of people who never cared about fleet. From any era there will be shards that are super dead, and some that are super competitive. It's all about when you happened to hit 60 in relation to others in that time period and nothing else.
As far as GR fleets go the a-number one most important thing your fleet can have is a high relic maxed out JKA/ETA2.
You don't even need Hound's Tooth. I take first every day I try to without hound's tooth in my fleet at all and never drop out of the top 20. Now I am on a less competitive shard than some, but what works works.
Definitely agree about buying refreshes to climb up higher. The higher in ranks you go the shorter ahead you can be seen. At rank 7 I can be hit by exactly 4 people. At rank 200 I can be hit by something like 30 people.
Spending on refreshes to climb as high as you can is pretty likely to actually save you crystals in the long run simply because you will decrease how much you get hit by decreasing the amount of people you are exposed to. They can't hit you if they can't see you.
Consequently, these shards formed the day that ships were released contain disproportionate amounts of highly active accounts. No amount of whaling or strategy will keep you at the top of these old ship shards.
In my shard, everyone on the top 50 has 7* negotiator or 7* malevolence. All the negotiators have r7 gk, R7 ani, R7 5s or ahsoka and relic ht to start. They all run the same reinforcements with a variant of the 5th, which rarely shows up.
I climb to my #1 or #2 payout every day, and every day that takes me between 5-9 battles depending on whether I was lucky overnight or not.
These daily grinds on the old active accounts are what is causing people to quit and CG should address it sooner rather than later or their favorite, not at all.
This guy is not in one of those shards if people who started in the same time frame are playing against Chimaera in the top 50.
Relic 5 Anakin,
G12++ Fives
Single zeta G12 Hounds Tooth
Reinforcements are
Clone sergeant, Plo and Ahsoka.
I currently sit at 101 with no Negotiator with a lower star or relic level above me.
My guildmate who's loving life in fleet arena started 2 - 3 months after me.
I've played since before ships so I guess I'm in a day 1 fleet arena.
I'm fully prepared to be stricken down by "Negotiator low star lol" but I know my HT is pretty weak too.
Like others have stated, I don't use HT with my GR fleet. I start with 5s (r4), Ani(r7) and Rex (g12), then reinforce with Plo (g12) or Sarge (g12) depending on how my starting ships are doing with health and debuffs. Then if i lose someone i bring in Snips (r4). With this team/strategy i can take 1st every day and never fall out of the top 20.
Anyway I recommend that you get your star count up on Negotiator, spend crystals on a refresh every day so you can climb higher, and join you fleet shard chat.