Hi guys,
So, i gravitate around rank 75 in arena - enough for me, as I'm mostly f2p player (less then a 200 usd invested) and for the past 6-7 weeks, I was able to stay in that rank with the common 5 fights/per day.
But suddenly that changed - something happened last night, and now I'm getting raepd. Woke up with 60 ranks down, did some fights with the morning cofee, hard ones - all oppnents rose in power with 2 - 3 k over a night, and now I'm at rank 134, no fight atempts any more. Any explanation why did this happened. I thought it was because my last fight was with phasma as leader, so I swithched back to my previous leader, but still the same result.
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Same thing happened when there was a guild activity reward for doing arena - i pondered it was because people refreshed a lot to get more coins. And sometimes I get rank sniped in the last 1 hours before rewards and I drop from rank 5X to 70-80, never that bad as today. Anyone else with an idea of what is happening?
Basically, it comes down to your team either being an attractive target, or easily beaten (or maybe both).
It's possible they're changing Yoda out for final battle. He is terrible on defense, and I've lost upwards of 200 spots in one day by forgetting him there
Working on QGJ and HK47 in both cantina and arena. Hk is pretty far (5*) and probably will do Han next, but so far, i dont have huge resources to make changes to my team. A 6*baris will come soon, but she is most of a GW progress/Raids necesity
Any tips what to do?
You need a tank of some sort. Most of the toons you are using die fairly quick, so you need someone to taunt, giving Lumi or Snips a chance to heal your party. Unfortunately, AI doesn't use Ahsoka properly, which makes her one of your weakest links
I use Yoda in my arena squad and I still leave him in overnight. I'm only dropping down to around 20ish. Almost every team I face has RG, Old Ben, and usually a Daka or Fives.
That's why you fall in ranks. Its a team that says "attack me please". No synergy (well Asajj and NSI but thats not a scary synergy), you don't have scary DPS (ashoka is not DPS even if she's better now that she used to be) and Sid is just a great big target.
If you want to do the NS thing, you need Daka too - at least she adds some RNG to your team. I know you said you are farming HK47, but unless you've got a couple of droids in your back pocket, thats an odd choice - he doesn't do much by himself, you'd be better off with STH. QGJ is a great toon, as is phasma (she's also a bit of a target as the AI doesn't play her well though).
Since the game mechanics basically make it possible for anyone to beat anyone depending on luck, all it takes is active players to move the leader board around.
So far the only determinant I can see is the level of your arena squad toons. I'm in the same situation as you - I've finished inside the top 20 and stayed within the top 50 overnight. But several times I've started dropping rapidly, and this morning woke up to being 113 (ugh).
What I normally do is level my arena toons up every 2 player levels - so I'm 76 now but my arena toons are 75, and I won't level them til I hit 77. Two other times besides now I've started dropping quickly, and both times the drops came after my arena squad had been at a particular level for a while. If history proves right, once I hit 77 and level up my arena toons I'll stop dropping again.
The thing is, unless you've got a squad that is actually dangerous to attack (which most of us don't have, and really there aren't that many of them), then the smallest of things can mean the difference between getting attacked or not. Given that even FTPers should have all their arena toons at gear 8 by now, but that getting to gear 9 is a process that will take forever for us, the only other differentiator is character level.
Unfortunately your team is a bit "under-DPS" compare to the top 150'ish ? teams in Arena these days ... depending on your server, I see tons of Rey/Leia/GS/clone-synergy w/Rex/Echo/5s or some droid teams. There is no way in a galaxy you can stand up against any of those teams ....