Normally I place between 50 and 20 in arena, and that is the range, has been that way for months. I fight the same teams that I know I can win against.
Over the last two days I have lost 5 attacks, and my rating has dropped over 100 points at night. People are not outracing me with levels really either, I am nearly 73 and most my opponents are 71-72.
Has something changed about two days ago?
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I intentionally attack Dooku teams, my team handles them fine, its Droid teams that give me trouble. It wasnt RNG either, at least not in a stupid obvious way. It just seemed like people were targeting me specifically on purpose, and on attack the AI learned how to focus.
I like the challenge, but a heads up would have been nice.
There are other reports of irregular massive overnight drops, this is not casual observation.
I have been beaten twice on offense by a team nearly identical to my own: Jedi.
Would be nice to know what is going on.
Regardless of how effective they are, Ahsoka and Eeth likely make to look like a juicy target. Dooku and RG replacing them (I know, meta hurdurrr) would probably help your visual deterrence factor.
It's not rocket surgery.
An all jedi team looks like easy prey to a dooku team, and as a player controlled dooku team vs. an ai jedi team, you are easy prey.
More and more players are reaching top tiers because it is way faster to get to lvl 70 then from 70 to 80.
I have looked like a soft target since launch, this is not a variable.
Don't think the AI was smarter. Apart from the Dooku teams, which almost make me barf right now and are killing all of my fun experiences in Arena, everyone else simply just didn't do any normal auto damage. Only crits! Maybe the same thing happened to you.
Have to make this note in my agenda 'Monday is crit day - just not for you' There...done!
The more teams at the top gear up to 74 and higher (seeing 74's all over the place now and the #1 on my shard is 75), the harder I'm going to get knocked back, and more frequently.
And the grind continues!
It is getting smarter because it targets single characters more often until they're dead
Oh I had that as well, but not any worse than normal...
Hmm not quite... RNG would still have a role to play. But I take your point.
Personally, I love the idea of AI learning how to play by watching zillions of games played by us. Not so that it learns the best moves to win, but so it imitates the most likely move a human would take - including all the stoopid decisions ones
My defending squad swaps QGJ lead for Luminara lead. I use RNG too.
RNG is still > Skill
What level/gear/ability level are you characters??? On another note, I'd try to steer clear of all Jedi teams because on my shard they get targeted and beaten on. What I would do is replace Ahsoka and Eeth with GS, Rey, RG, IG86, Initiate or someone else
It is probably because more people are playing again because of the level cap increase. Caring about arena is important when you need crystals for refreshes to level faster.
I will say in my experience, doing well in Arena requires the following
NOTE: This will probably all shift this week when the update for the meta change gets added so these rules will maybe only apply for a few more days..
God, I hope so.
That is probably a big reason, I didn't think of that.
I don't care about arena because I'm not going to force myself to use the meta build just to get rank. I play a team I like and have fun with it.
I do keep them all leveled up, at 73 now, and they are all gear level 8 and 7*.
I bet the influx of people returning is probably having a huge effect on arena.