hi to the swgoh-universe!
in the title we see the average of the top 30 in my ship arena at this moment!
more than 4.8m gp total, ship gp 1.975m gp, average of fights more than 5000.
some basic data of my climbing-grind each day: minimum 12/13 fights (depending on rng and how often i get knocked back) and minimum two refreshes (50+100 crystals). with cooldown, it takes a good three hours of climbing. is this normal and as intended? or is it only in my ship-arena?
some feedback would help to see, if this is really the daily work for each of us. or am i still in the hardest ship arena in the game?
can you make rank 1 under 5 fights, 10 fights....? do you have no chance to reach top20? to which rank do you fall „over night“? also out of the top 50?
how are your pilots/ships geared/moded?
thanks for the answers... :-)
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Running the HT/HMF meta with a lot of gold mods. 1.8M GP from ships with 1,100 fleet arena battles in approx 2 years.
The experience you describe is more like my experience in Arena. I just swim along top 30 and to get 1 every day would likely take 2+ refreshes assuming a few losses along the way.
Are you in contact with other players on that same leaderboard? If so, are they experiencing the same thing? If so, you're most likely on a super competative leaderboard.
Holy! You fall into the 300s in one night? Thats a pretty nasty shard.
I'm at 3.5M gp. Usually fall between 15-35 with 5* falcon and 6* HT and a 385k fleet but I'm really cheap. I can take 1 if I do all my fights but usually top 5-10. I never ever refresh.
Fleet of 402k ish, 7* falcon/Biggs/ht
And maybe I wouldn't realize how bad it is if I didn't have a second account who has a very chill ship shard. In my main shard you do NOT survive if you don't have maxed ships and pretty much all your crew maxed ( me can miss a g12+ here and there as it is just painful to put g12+ on Bistan, Ackbar and SRP but chances are you will get targeted more as your fleet is relatively easier to win against). In the fleet shard my mini is in, I was able to get top rank with just 5* **** (it is now a 6* one, I didnt have to bother with getting it to 7* even the second time around) and a lame phoenix & rogue one team where most aren't even g11, some are even g8... and I never had to bother to upgrade my Bistan... I pretty much never need a refresh climbing in that shard despite my fleet being much much underpowered than my main. If I wake up somewhere in 15-20 it is a bad drop day (whereas in main's fleet shard it is a sign you should go buy a lottery ticket!) We actually have non-Ackbar fleets in top 50, even top 20 in my second account's fleet shard. I doubt we have a non-ackbar anywhere near top 200 in my mains...
I joined later at my brothers suggestion and still curse him for it to this day.
Fleet was created well after game launch, so there are a ton of fleet servers that were all created at the same time. The rest of them did not have the issues that this one did.
I fall to the teens overnight. Maybe once a month I’ll find myself in the low 20s. My HomeOne is slightly slower than others’, but I have no trouble climbing. My Han and Chewy are fully maxed and have 6 dot mods. I only have Vader as my 7th to fill a spot as he only sees action very rarely. I only have to buy a refresh once or twice a week, as rng bites everyone at some point.
But I admit: ever since Hounds Tooth and Millennium Falcon came out: fleet arena is not as active as it once was.
....or I just win on defense a heck of a lot more.
I was online when fleet was launched... I remember the excitement and pretty much checking it out asap... Figures to this day I pay for that. Next time this game launches something new (doubt it will) I am not touching it for a week!
On my alt account will drop to 15-10 sometimes, mostly stay in top 10. My fleet there has no G12, no 6E mods, some zetas. And I auto play win. Not a winning strategy on my primary account. General communications with others in my guild has no one else in a ship shard that is as aggressive as my primary. Most people report ship shards that are on pare with my alt account.
but in the ship shard, i make my first fights on my payout-day (!) on the next day i start early in the morning, 11.00 am i have my payout. when i am top 20 two hours before, i anyway need minimum 4/5 fights...
of course ea/cg has no interest to divide this arena-group once more. this arena-group is a gold-mine!
we need miminum gear 12+3 pilots with gold mods.
no question all ships maxed
pilots with zetas are better and faster than without zetas
we need countless crystals for 2 or 3 fight-refreshes each day
BUT:
is this the health, the devs so often mention? the only reason to do this grind, is the zeta-currency. i am miles away from other player with an easy ship-shard. the longest time i was able to reach top50, after the divide top20.
not before the free payout-joice i am able to reach rank 1. i don't want check, how many full zetas i'm behind. now in the grand arena i notice, what this overloaded shipshard did to me.
perhaps the devs can answer some questions about the "game-health" and the existence of a shard like this.
i love this game, the idea 5v5, also 3v3. and i don't need one fight to go for gold, but the half morning reserverd for climbing is a no go.