People have found a way to exploit poor design, and rule the arena with garbage squads. How can the arena be competitive when you can have 50 people from the same guild into a single arena shard. In my shard, there are 9 people in top 20 from the same guild. So, basically they protect each other, and rule the arena for months. You can fight, but you can't win, so what is the point?
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@swgohfan29 Your shard may or may not be affected by this. Either way, it is just a matter of time till you will feel it on your skin.
It's mostly this part that got me curious: My team is awesome, so i'm not asking because i want to abuse it.
Also the same time it would also make the arena much much fair for ppl who are bussy at their payout times...
What do you think threads like "LF Shardmates" are used for?
But yea, it sucks when a group of players is locking you out at pay-out. Best advice i can give is for you to join them. It's not perfect, but it's better than constandly being locked out.
I hate the “everyone gets top rewards” model. I want a competitive arena. I agree with getting rid of a payout time, but not with letting everyone just cycle through 1st all day and getting top rewards.
That’s what guilds are for. Arena is a competition. A group deciding they want to work together and split top rewards while deciding who is and isn’t allowed to be a part of it is horrible game design.
you mean that place where you compete with your guildmates for top raid rewards?
The game enables it though, and does absolutely nothing to stop it. That’s like saying the parents who allow a party with underage drinking at their house while they are home aren’t responsible because they didn’t buy the beer.
Lol, that’s a separate issue with raids being outdated. I was speaking more about TB and TW where guilds work together.
I couldn't agree more. I myself would make a thread "LF shardmates", and name every single person from that enclave, to just state that I will be hunting them down. I would also call all people from my shard to only fight against them. Being locked, for 30 minutes isn't funny. The "big YT game-changers" will never address this, of course, why would they, when they are part of it themselves.
who is stopping you? I'm sure others on your leaderbaord are having the same issue with that group of players. You could give them a taste of their own medicine.
It does sort of make you just as bad as them, but not really.
If am am rank1 30 minutes before p.o. I will be attacked non-stop and not be able to attack even if I spend all my time the last 30 minutes resfreshing and hitting enter.
If I can I'll post a video (not sure if I can record that much on my phone but I will try)
All players in the shard chat coordinate on keeping out of top 20. This specific shard chat has 28+ members.
This is organized to a degree that makes the game rather lame. What is the purpose of an arena if it serves to simply give the same crystal mafia a high crystal reward so they can retain a favorable position and not spend too much money in the game.
Make it equal for all. rotate/shuffle shards every 3 months.
You cant really start making arena shards based on player's gp or roster either - you would end up putting all top players/spenders against each other... that would negate any reason to spend on the game or the sense of pride and accomplishment from getting to the top..
The dev team has stated from a technical standpoint they cannot shuffle shards.
It would be extremely hard to stay at the top if you have a garbage squad even with a huge help from guild mates. I personally ran into this awhile back they didn't have garbage squads but weren't elite either. The lesser of the group couldn't beat the top of the groups squads though. They would move up as a group and then the top squads would put in Biggs leads. So the lesser players could pass them once they were all at the top. Then the best ones would fix there squads once they fell to make a wall to protect the lesser squads. The guild fell apart so isn't an issue anyway.
call me crazy, but it's that just waaaaaay too much effort to get your groupmates to rank high? I would be amazed if this isn't an extremely rare thing to happen on leaderboards.
Maybe i'm just being naive though.