Lol, poor boomer69, lost and abandoned by everyone.... 😁

There's 3 now, and apparently if you're in plat, you only get matched against other people in plat... so they're all just farming each other right now.  constantly getting dropped, then climbing back in.

It just shows how insane Gold 5 is that no one else can even get in there :D

I can't get close. Started at 2900 this week, just got over 3300

And my defense is doing somewhat 

better get to farming better gear you might get that NOOB smell on you 😁

I am having the same trouble but also getting that DEF down debuff sliding right off as soon as it lands on the enemy team, I have been in G4 comfortably for 18 months and during the last week I cannot win a single match, my Arby lead is 354, Siphi 320, Hurndig 300 and Genbo is 313, I should not be losing all of my fights.

It honestly feels lime the old speed hack nonsense is back too.

That's a strange team comp. Why use Hurndig? Serris would be a much better choice for that team. Unless, of course, you don't have Serris. But given those speeds on your team, I have to assume you do.

As for the DEF down debuff sliding off. Is it possible you're facing teams using the Deflection set?

I don't have Serris unfortunately, I got Siphi when I was level 45 and my luck with void shards since has been horrendous... I got my first Coldheart at level 88! 

I love using Hurndig with that comp tbh, his A3 on the fastest enemy is amazing, but I recently got Lydia, I'm going to build her to fill that space.

4 peoples in Plat :DD Others move with Yo-yo effect in G leagues because negative point system.

This problem is easily fixable in program code. Forget +1 point for win and -20 for lose. Shrink the gap between win and lose differences.

arena is not just tough. its impossible. my losses are losing 18 medals my wins are getting 4 medals. teams are harder than ever right now even in gold 4. I NEVER have fallen to gold 3 overnight before last night. you should NOT have to grind arena until 4 AM just to stay in GOLD 4. everything is turning into platnium now and for players not on that level it is really making this game mode intolerable. on top of Hydra being a terrible fit of RNG and hours of "regrouping" because of it just to get a good RNG roll to possibly get good damage out and now arena is to the point where in order to break even on ONE LOSS you need to win 8-10 battles thats absolutely insane. My arena team is speed tuned with Arbiter Lyssandra Lydia and Genbo the dishonoured. and my arbiter ISNT SLOW by any means! however im still losing enough where my medals are slowly dropping and when im not online grinding the medals PLUMMET.  This needs to either be fixed OR put bots back in so people like me on the Great Hall grind can actually make some headway! With a team like mine i should not be struggling to stay in gold 4... or even gold 5 for that matter. I actively play every day and some days i do upwards of 50 or 100 arena battles because im actively trying to pump up my great hall. But because of how so many platnium tier teams are falling into my tier im only getting 70% wins with medals dropping faster than gaining it is a losing battle. Also it seems the AI is smarter where when i use my speed team and lose the speed race the AI goes for the nuke but when i use my stoneskin cardinal team on that same team they kill my nuker then use A1s and try to wait out the stone skin... this is absurd. 

This is my first post. Think about that. 11+ months playing the game and dropping tons of my hard earned money into your pockets and THIS is my first post.

can you imagine what arena is going to be like next week?

I know the mods said Plarium is slow to act on this and it takes time to fix, but I feel like they are about to have a nuclear bomb drop and they need to make this a priority before the masses exit.

All week we've heard of people that used to live comfortably in G4 and possibly even G5 get knocked down and in many cases are struggling to get back to G4.  MANY of those are going to miss G4 at the reset this week. Instead of starting the week at 2900, they are now going to start at 2600.  This is going to be a huge amount of STRONG accounts further pushing everyone else down, and then the struggle will be to stay in even G3 for those people.

I am already seeing degredation in my CB and dungeon team performance due to the loss of arena tier bonus stats.  Another level down and I may just walk away . . .

This game is quickly starting to feel like a chore instead of a game at this point. the only game mode worth a damn is Demon Lord clanboss. and considering all the game modes thats pretty pitiful. Hydra was a huge flop being so RNG dependant. Tag arena has really never been enjoyable for most anyone. faction wars is okay but its just a farm and the 6* glyphs ive gotten mostly roll low anyway. there is no excitement for anything for me anymore not even shard pulls. i dont even wait for 2x anymore because im literally TRYING TO GET AN EPIC. you know its bad when you pull sacreds hoping for a specific epic.  

but yeah if my arena tier starts dropping to the point where my Demon lord team is affected thats a sure fire way to get me to quit as its the only thing left that isnt completely FUBAR right now.

dont even get me started on the skins that just came out. what a slap in the face. 

Well, slow to act versus taking the weekend to figure it out.... Although I wish we had news this second, I am hopeful for some news on this on Monday. I can't promise it, but I expect it.

That said, we are continuing to update our feedback to Plarium to include Arena's hour by hour craziness. 

So about those bot accounts. Multiple content creators have stated now that the "bots" are indeed bots, well kind of.

According to CC's they are low level accounts that are copied and then inserted into higher arena tiers.

I'm assuming it's true since I've seen 3 major CC's give this same explanation now. Not 100% relevant to this thread but I always enjoy how people refer to them as bots and moderators everytime deny them being bots. I guess both sides of the coin are half right.

But maybe plarium is busy this weekend cut and pasting all those "newly added server segments", or in their fashion they will let this mess go on for a few more weeks.

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I am in nearly the exact same boat. I think I got to 3400 before being pushed back down. We shall see if I can make it tomorrow even into G5.... nvm even thinking about Plat..... and I don't plan on going crazy about it either way. Would be wasted effort this weekend, I think.

i just don't have the tokens to keep having to fight my way back, i cba spending gems on this cluster**** each week