ARENA HAS TO GO
Permanent Arena is terrible.
Arena itself is bad.
Arena might be considered as a tool to balance. Though that doesn’t make much sense because extraction is completely different to arena.
Arena might be considered a tool to learn PVP. Though that doesn’t make much sense because Arena doesn’t have any MMR, No Gear Cap, and learning when being destroy within 10 seconds by tryhards ONTOP of Geargap wont happen.
Arena is killing both PVP mode and Social Hub. The Social Hub back in the days was full full full. Now its dead, permanently, nobody learns, nobody explains, nobody is social.
Trios, the least played pvp mode, is overlapping with GWD PVP, the least fun PVP map. Its huge, barely has any interesting POI, loot is worse than other variations. U might find some GWD pvp, but nope, many people don’t even que it cuz its so bad in comparison.
Duos, the perhaps most liked pvp mode, is overlapping with Crypts, crypts due to it being small, has the highest chance of actually finding fights. But you dont, cuz its dead, especially in DUOS because of Arena 2v2.
Solos, the perhaps most played arena mode, kills GWN. There has been 2 ogre, now its one. Nontheless, GWN has the best loot of them all, everyone should WANT to join this map. But then there is arena, the apparently only chance of actually learning the PVP in this game is ontop of the most rewarding map to play.
Please make arena an event again, atleast make it NOT permanent.
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#1 Fishes23lover
Feb 4
Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean it has to go.
Arena is basically one of the big reasons why people even still play this game.
The only thing that needs to be adressed is having a more rndized rotation, so Night and Solo does not always be up at the same time.
gam40v3r
Feb 3
I’ve been saying exactly this since arena got first introduced. It was the exact same situation in Dungeonborne. Every extraction game that launched Arenas as a game mode introduced a risk free, zero commitment game mode that immediately takes away most (if not all) attention from the main game mode: extraction. What you’re adressing could theoretically be fixed by having a higher playercount. My argument against arenas in general is that everyone will save up gear pieces, just to play arena because there is no risk involved. Especially in this game where getting a legendary gear set takes weeks to get 99% of the playerbase will never risk their best gear set in the extraction game mode, making the extraction game mode inevitably boring, stale, have less dopamine rushed moments, less adrenaline when fighting other players simply because “oh well I still have my BiS gear in my storage and if I die I can just play the zero risk arena”. Back then I got called out for being crazy, not understanding game dynamics etc.just for saying this and pretty much every time I brought this up most people were convinced that arena would save the game and it would be a great addition to the game etc. - it clearly wasn’t.
jiggyspice
Feb 3
You had me until you said GWD was the worst pvp map. It is by far the best pvp map and has the most populated lobbies out of all 3 maps. The quality of the pvp fights are generally better since the mobs are not so overbearing as well.
I do agree that arena is a big problem, especially since balancing is happening around arena and not extraction