My arena shard is about 7 months old. I started playing in early January but did not start playing daily until mid January. I lost about 2 weeks of squad arena. In that time I lost, It had became impossible to get to the top 1000. With the way Arena is made, High players stay high and low players stay low. I don't make enough crystals from arena so i can't ever make it to the top 1000. I am Stuck in a Arena Shard that I cant grow in due to me losing 2 weeks of progress early on.
What do I do
Arena is Very boring because I can't compete
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The alternative is to start over with a new account.
Manage your resources, make smart choices, get a little lucky, and you can get there next time. Or the time after that.
I played for 6 months at least without even realizing arena mattered enough to try and do anything about it.
I started in 2015 but I took a long break, so when I came back I wasn't much better off than someone starting fresh. Worse off actually, depending on how obsessive you want to be about arena placement - I'd missed over a year of mod farming, which is a gap I have yet to truly close despite farming and slicing mods nonstop since April 2018.
What I did was focus on building teams for all of the events: Fleet Mastery, Assault Battles, etc. You don't need mega-geared characters to do the first couple tiers of any assault battle, and this gives you a broad base of characters to use when you're ready to start really focusing and building some strong teams. The idea was to allocate my resources in a way that they would return additional resources: mostly shards, but also some credits, mods, gear and ability materials.
I still can't quite reach #1 squad because of the randomness of speed mod farming, but I get top 20 most days and I get #1 in fleet, which still gives me a solid amount of crystals coming in.
Make a plan. Stick to it. You'll be fine.
Just stay the course, save up resources when possible, spend them intelligently (check to forums and reddit for clues, suggestions, tips, etc.). Also, ask people in your guild.
In game guild: TNR Uprising
I beat the REAL T7 Yoda (not the nerfed one) and did so before mods were there to help
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Even without getting to top ranks in squad arena where you are also competing against people spending a lot of money to build their teams, you can do well in other areas of the game.
What about fleet arena? In young shard getting Hounds Tooth, Tie Advanced, Tie Silencer, Biggs’s X-Wing and Slave can set you for a good rank. I made most of my crystals from fleet arena.
Even if fleet arena does not work for you either, it still where most of players are. I’m in the guild full of players who barely make it to top 1000 in squad arena and top 100 in fleet arena and it is not slowing us down.
Only the top ranking members of your shard have a significantly higher crystal income than you. Those at rank 50 - 1k only have slightly higher crystal income. If you can't climb it's not because of crystals.