How the heck are Arena scores so high?

[AvatarOfWar]

The new Brawl started 11 hours ago, and currently the highest score is at 88,231. Unless theres a way others are getting more, the max I get is 150 per fight, which means I would need 588 fights to match the top player. I did a quick estimate, and I would have to use an entire months worth of the Arena Refills from the loot crates just to equal those scores.

... and these scores will easily go up by the same amount for the next few days too. I seem to recall scores from the last Brawl were 400k or higher.

So either people are saving up six months worth of arena refills in the hopes of ranking high ONCE in Arena Brawl, or something is smelling a little fishy here.

Whats worse, those 588 fights in the arena? If you had a top notch deck it would still take you 6 hours just to click through them all on auto-play, but most fights would be against other top-notch decks, right? Now that fishy smell is starting to rot.

... unless theres some other way to jack up the score that I'm unaware of?

[Remy]

Originally posted by DeciseV:

As someone in the SFC ranks, I can verify that you get more points per win the higher you get. My guild leader is usually ranked top 10 in Arena, and he gets waaaay more than double I do of coins, event points, and epic stones (I get around 480-500+ event points per win and 2000+ coins per win in 1700/1800 SFC rating area).

So basically anyone that got into the game early has reaped the benefits and will remain at the top, while any new people have no hope of getting there (unless they pay a lot).

[Bud]

Originally posted by stuart.park1:

Originally posted by DeciseV:

As someone in the SFC ranks, I can verify that you get more points per win the higher you get. My guild leader is usually ranked top 10 in Arena, and he gets waaaay more than double I do of coins, event points, and epic stones (I get around 480-500+ event points per win and 2000+ coins per win in 1700/1800 SFC rating area).

So basically anyone that got into the game early has reaped the benefits and will remain at the top, while any new people have no hope of getting there (unless they pay a lot).

....or have incredibly good luck and spend hundreds of hours farming....pretty much.

I mean a person should pay something to play the game as to just play for free and then complain about it is rather messed up on their own. However, I have long since stopped caring about reaching the 'top 100' people weeks ago and so should any newer player that started off.

"Let the 'Whales' have their ocean while we find a way to enjoy the house on dry land" is how I few things.

[Adondriel]

Some people, like myself also hoard the beer bottles form the crates, then just chain them all one after another, in order to get higher on the board for one round of arena... i'm not super hardcore into this game though, but it is entertaining to make my deck stronger. I just wish we had actual 1 on 1 duels.

[Adondriel]

Originally posted by stuart.park1:

Originally posted by DeciseV:

As someone in the SFC ranks, I can verify that you get more points per win the higher you get. My guild leader is usually ranked top 10 in Arena, and he gets waaaay more than double I do of coins, event points, and epic stones (I get around 480-500+ event points per win and 2000+ coins per win in 1700/1800 SFC rating area).

So basically anyone that got into the game early has reaped the benefits and will remain at the top, while any new people have no hope of getting there (unless they pay a lot).

Not true, the people at the top just play almost 24/7 and invest a lot of hours into playing and min-maxing their decks... not to mention pouring tons of money into it as well. I have gotten pretty high in arena ratings(not top 100, but top 1000) and I like being able to do that, only thing I have paid for was the research time reducer thing, that gives you a permanent research time reduction on all research, and the vip pass, which I still have 5 days left on, and was 100% worth it, to maek the game playable.

[Remy]

Originally posted by Adondriel:

Originally posted by stuart.park1:

So basically anyone that got into the game early has reaped the benefits and will remain at the top, while any new people have no hope of getting there (unless they pay a lot).

Not true, the people at the top just play almost 24/7 and invest a lot of hours into playing and min-maxing their decks... not to mention pouring tons of money into it as well. I have gotten pretty high in arena ratings(not top 100, but top 1000) and I like being able to do that, only thing I have paid for was the research time reducer thing, that gives you a permanent research time reduction on all research, and the vip pass, which I still have 5 days left on, and was 100% worth it, to maek the game playable.

I did say "unless they pay a lot". And you admitted you can't get into the top 100.

I notice that the same guilds win all the rumbles (Dire Tide is always #1) - I'm guessing members of those guilds are early players (who have also paid a lot).

[Bud]

Originally posted by stuart.park1:

I notice that the same guilds win all the rumbles (Dire Tide is always #1) - I'm guessing members of those guilds are early players (who have also paid a lot).

That and the game is extremly 'win more' and not so much even fair for players who have played for less than a year. Concerning the top hundred players, even if a new player spent $100s of dollars on this game, they will still not be able to break open the top ten rankings due to the massive unfair attack system of the game for weaker players.

I'm not complaining, but I'm also not going to see the top 100.

[Irish Shaman]

Maybe try and play for fun rather than trying to be #1 in a game?

Just saying.

*SHIELD*

[Bud]

Originally posted by Irish Shaman:

Maybe try and play for fun rather than trying to be #1 in a game?

Just saying.

*SHIELD*

...sounds a lot like my wife and I as well. The game is simple enough that we can have fun playing it on a side PC while our children are watching TV or whatnot on the main tv and this game really doesn't take much to play and be decent at.


So for me at least, it is a good 'timewaster' and not something that I want to spend my entire life savings to profect.

[Irish Shaman]

Originally posted by Bud:

...sounds a lot like my wife and I as well. The game is simple enough that we can have fun playing it on a side PC while our children are watching TV or whatnot on the main tv and this game really doesn't take much to play and be decent at.


So for me at least, it is a good 'timewaster' and not something that I want to spend my entire life savings to profect.

I usally play when I'm getting my breakfast ready at 4am, if I have a few minutes at lunch I might load it up and when I'm getting dinner sorted i'll have it in the background.

Its nothing you have to play all the time, heck, thats what I have a full time+ job for. It's just a fun background game. It may take some grinding, but welcome to your introduction to RPG games.

*Edit - Dont try and compare this to Chocobo breeding or getting all to 99 in any FF game*

[menubar]

Originally posted by Darkslayer16:

Originally posted by AvatarOfWar:

Your userbase can't be THAT dumb....

$60 is nothing, people spend $1000s a day on mobile games.

Then I don't feel bad about trashing this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game. You'll do fine screwing people out of money. How many of those "people who spend 1000s" are kids using their parents' cards or outright stolen cards. You all should rot in hell. ♥♥♥♥ you.

[Bud]

Originally posted by menubar:

Originally posted by Darkslayer16:

$60 is nothing, people spend $1000s a day on mobile games.

Then I don't feel bad about trashing this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game. You'll do fine screwing people out of money. How many of those "people who spend 1000s" are kids using their parents' cards or outright stolen cards. You all should rot in hell. ♥♥♥♥ you.

To help you with your decision though and to let you know that it isn't all for hate spewing. I am a midrange $$$ player where my wife and I only spend around $20 a month in total on this game and we have only played for around three months now.

If it does help ease this debate about people who pay some money, you can enjoy this game for far less as long as you realise that you don't need to be in the top 250. As a whole, I typically win 80% of the guild matches and I am doing well on the events. But I just don't win each and every game and that is fine.

My deck is made up entirely of Epic (Blue) and Legendary (Red) card and quite a few of those Legendary are doubled up to being 2x in levels. It is possible to enjoy this game but if a person doesn't spend a dime but then complains about how this game demands $1,000 of dollars to play it while they loose, over and over again. They only have themselves to blame.

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Since when in any thing that you find value in during your off time 100% free worth anything? What is wrong with just a cap on $20 a month. Idiots smoke cigarettes and my value of this game beats to death their stupid decision to smoke and whatnot. What harm is there in this view that I have toward this game.


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Now let the 'hate' speech begin toward me.

[ATYian]

The obvious answer is you throw money at it if you want to win. If you want drinks, you pay. If you want a lap dance, you pay. If you want some buffalo wings, you pay. And if you want to win in Animation Throwdown, have the best deck filled to the brim with Mythics, you pay.

[AvatarOfWar]

No, the obvious answer is, this question was answered. Three. Years. Ago.

Its absolutely hilarious to just take a random peek at this forum, only to see my own post at the top of the list, and not even remember that I wrote it until I was halfway through reading it.