Holy crap these arenas are bad as hell.

[Nihil]

Why do devs always think that adding such "challange arenas" into these games are fun?
Especially when you have to fight with weapons you hate like hell.

They are boring and unimaginative. But the issue is, the highest tier items are locked behind it. Not fun.

[FHLPhoenix]

true
but actually you can choose lower difficulty to pass the arena, which makes no difference in rewards as I remember.

[Nihil]

Originally posted by FHLPhoenix:

true
but actually you can choose lower difficulty to pass the arena, which makes no difference in rewards as I remember.

yeah but the issue is....again an activity which is there for the sake of grind but not fun at all :(

[mattycoombes]

I agree. the melee pit in Thornmarsh is probably the biggest POS part of the game

[Lunatic]

Going through the arena on normal difficulty is definitey not hard (not super easy, but not that hard either).

It's supposed to be a combat challenge, you can use everything you got (before entering) and get everything back when you're done.
Only in each category's last challenge, you are given a specific loadout to work with, which you can use to learn the fact that different machines may require different weapons/playstyles.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but this kinda reads like yet another "Game isn't fun. I can't just spam-attack with a hunter-bow and win."

[FragMac_forever]

I don't mind the arena challenges and if they put a bit more thought into them they could have been a good addition. Especially the Fixed Loadout challenges where you might have to use unfamiliar weapons and skills is a cool idea.

What I think was a silly move was to put a time limit on the reward for the challenges. The time limit makes it so that certain playstyles are utterly non-viable, which kinda goes against the whole "find and master your preferred playstyle".