Fleet arena is boring!

Hodgey

I run the typical Malevolence setup, the only one in my shard.
I'm surrounded by 7* Negotiators, and although I can comfortably get 1st everyday the battles take 3-4 minutes each. The climb to 1st place is just a drag! Getting stuck behind HT every single time until the ultimate is ready... bah!
What is going to be done to speed things up? It feels like we've gone backwards with these new 'powerful ships'.

TheJEFFtm

You could unlock Negotiator instead - most of those battles (while also repetitive) dont last much beyond the 90 second to the 2 minute mark (unless RNG takes a serious downturn, then they can stretch out longer)

The price of being (and staying) at the top of the spear...

AndySCovell

I think fleet is way more fun than endless GAS and a few DR sprinkled in there.

Monel

My fase is boring.

TAZZZOOO

OP thinks FA is boring 🤣.
Try being in a day 1 fleet arena.

TVF

TAZZZOOO wrote: »

OP thinks FA is boring 🤣.
Try being in a day 1 fleet arena.

One where more people have quit?

TVF

OP, have you tried sticking buff immunity on HT right away with Vulture?

Polinski08

Hodgey wrote: »

I run the typical Malevolence setup, the only one in my shard.
I'm surrounded by 7* Negotiators, and although I can comfortably get 1st everyday the battles take 3-4 minutes each. The climb to 1st place is just a drag! Getting stuck behind HT every single time until the ultimate is ready... bah!
What is going to be done to speed things up? It feels like we've gone backwards with these new 'powerful ships'.

Use vulture droid as your 1st reinforcement. His special applies ability block more times than not. HT goes down a little faster usually.

Dirty_Litle_Smuggler

Problem is Malevolence isn’t good on defense. He can be beaten, pretty easily, by either Rebels or GR. So that makes you a target for anyone looking to climb, if you leave it in after payout. Not sure if Rebels are targeted less or not, but really anything other than a 7* Negotiator will get attacked relentlessly. Sucks, but that’s what happens when you use a non-meta fleet. As someone who stuck to Rebels loooong into the Negotiator, I feel your pain.

Hodgey

I’ve been playing since the release of TFA so it’s not exactly a fresh arena.

I’ve always struggled to get buff immunity to stick. When it does the battles are quick but more often than not it’s resisted.

No issues winning but HT is there until I can get the ult.

GA_Phoenix

With Vulture, Hyena and SF in the starting lineup ist pretty easy to speed up the fighst.
Use the Discordmissle from Vulture against Anni. Buffimmunity will prevent that he went stealth if UeL is triggert and he will not called to assist by Negos AOE.
Use SF Stun to cripple the enemy HT
Use the cleanse frome Malev on Hyena and use that Buzzy-AOE by targeting Anni. This will call all Vultures to assist and will nearly kill him.

Call in your Anni as first reinforcement and use his AOE. This will finish of the enemy Anni for sure. While HT has his taunt up it woun't get TM and has decreased Tenacity so the buff immuntiy will stick mostly and you can finish that flying brick asap.

It becomes even more easy if your Malev is at 7*.
The standard squads (with Fives, HT and Anni in the starting row) will fall appart in 60-90 seconds.

TVF

Hodgey wrote: »

I’ve been playing since the release of TFA so it’s not exactly a fresh arena.

I’ve always struggled to get buff immunity to stick. When it does the battles are quick but more often than not it’s resisted.

No issues winning but HT is there until I can get the ult.

If you're talking about getting it to stick on HT, you have to wait until it has taunt up, otherwise it has bonus tenacity.

TAZZZOOO

TVF wrote: »

TAZZZOOO wrote: »

OP thinks FA is boring 🤣.
Try being in a day 1 fleet arena.

One where more people have quit?

🤣🤣 It seems we're on different ends of this game. Whales have LOOOONG lifespans and if you're f2p you'll likely drown in that ocean.

Mephisto_style

The game isn't sulposed to not be boring. It is supposed to be addicting and making you pay for fake crystals.
Who told you it was about fun?

TVF

Mephisto_style wrote: »

The game isn't sulposed to not be boring. It is supposed to be addicting and making you pay for fake crystals.
Who told you it was about fun?

I would quit if I wasn't still having fun.

jonnysiniwal

TVF wrote: »

OP, have you tried sticking buff immunity on HT right away with Vulture?

That sticks 1 out of 5 times. Hardly a reliable strategy. Even when taunting it is still not reliable

Hodgey

GA_Phoenix wrote: »

With Vulture, Hyena and SF in the starting lineup ist pretty easy to speed up the fighst.
Use the Discordmissle from Vulture against Anni. Buffimmunity will prevent that he went stealth if UeL is triggert and he will not called to assist by Negos AOE.
Use SF Stun to cripple the enemy HT
Use the cleanse frome Malev on Hyena and use that Buzzy-AOE by targeting Anni. This will call all Vultures to assist and will nearly kill him.

Call in your Anni as first reinforcement and use his AOE. This will finish of the enemy Anni for sure. While HT has his taunt up it woun't get TM and has decreased Tenacity so the buff immuntiy will stick mostly and you can finish that flying brick asap.

It becomes even more easy if your Malev is at 7*.
The standard squads (with Fives, HT and Anni in the starting row) will fall appart in 60-90 seconds.

We have the exact same routine up until you call JKA. I call spy at that point to finish off either JKA or Fives. If it’s fives, JKA usually dies to the buzz droids anyway.

TVF

jonnysiniwal wrote: »

TVF wrote: »

OP, have you tried sticking buff immunity on HT right away with Vulture?

That sticks 1 out of 5 times. Hardly a reliable strategy. Even when taunting it is still not reliable

When taunting, it sticks most of the time for me. Are you running a three star Vulture or something?

dalosto147

Fleet arena always was boring.
What the news?

Lio

I also use Malevolence and it's a very fun fleet. I don't find FA boring. It's the first time in a while that I've enjoyed ships. At least we have variety in teams that can reach the top.

Stayontarget2016

Ships was dull on day 1. It still is

Legend91

Just today I lost a battle with Male vs Nego because I set it on auto after I killed all GR ships, only the enemy HT was left and I had a board with 5 ships (including a healthy Hyena and Spy). Ofc my fault for setting it on auto but it's still increadibly silly that smth like that can happen.
And the solution could be so easy:

It's already in the game and only needs a minor addition in his kit. Make it a marquee ship for $$ and both parties are happy - CG for making $$ and players for having 1 more Sep droid ship (yay!) that's also a QoL thing to save time vs HT (yay).