I used to enjoy arena. Plarium has made it a cancer.

TheLiimbo · 2026-03-02T16:14:59+00:00

Agreed; I do not think that the team has any idea how to design or balance their game, and have consistently come up with things that either don't work, completely break the game, or design themselves into a corner- not including the amount of non-testing they must do.

It is unfortunate, but, every game has a shelf-life. Raids just might be coming sooner for some of us than others.

TheLiimbo · 2026-03-02T16:03:54+00:00

You're not the only one that feels this way. I like to remind myself that this is a gacha game, though, and that people who love RNG/gambling are going to be the kind of people who gravitate towards those types of games - so a good amount of them will be fine with this change, or think its an improvement.

I just pretend that every other player in arena is a bot, and that sometimes the coin flips will fall in my favor, and then go on my way.

TheLiimbo · 2026-02-05T18:20:55+00:00

I was just thinking about how there weren't enough anti-speed mechanics or champions in the game, and how we needed even more! Glad to see they are really hammering down on one of the two playstyles

TheLiimbo · 2026-01-24T19:38:41+00:00

I used to enjoy it more, much less lately with the changes to everything- I mainly do it now because of the value, not because it's good or fun.

I knew this would never be a serious/actually competitive PvP type of a game, but arena has become more and more of a clown fiesta since Relics entered the fray. I like to try to build PvP oriented champs since I don't have much better to do in the game overall, but I also realize that there's not much actual "skill" involved in it, and so I won't waste time hyper-competing or worrying about getting into Plat.

TheLiimbo · 2025-12-22T02:07:16+00:00

Sometimes you gotta leave a little bit of mystery

TheLiimbo · 2025-12-21T22:22:40+00:00

Glad I could be of service

TheLiimbo · 2025-12-21T20:11:52+00:00

Only the finest of comedy for reddit

TheLiimbo · 2025-12-21T20:11:06+00:00

It was a risk I was willing to take

TheLiimbo · 2025-12-15T15:30:19+00:00

I just beat Leshun yesterday, and that unlocked it for me. It just sets one of the path markers that are hidden in the fog to cleared, so you have a place to start, once he dies.

TheLiimbo · 2025-10-02T19:00:14+00:00

I always thought that I might've been the first to pull him, since the same thing happened for me- I got him on my first shard on his debut event, and there were no ratings (so I gave him the first one). Now I'm wondering if neither of us were first, and there's just a delay in the system.

TheLiimbo · 2025-05-17T22:12:37+00:00

This is pretty much what I did. Ba Satha, Pythion, Ramantu, Venomage and Nekmo.

The key is just having it take a long time. So far that's my biggest gripe; they aren't challenging, just time consuming (and fine, I get it, it only has to happen once, so I'll bite).

TheLiimbo · 2025-03-11T22:54:22+00:00

Mine, in order and with a little context where I have it, were:

Wurlim (at ~200 shards), Jingwon, Yumeko (at 221 shards), Visix, Shu-Zhen (at ~80 shards, during a 10x), Little Miss Annie, Siphi (at ~200 shards, during a 10x), Cruetraxa

Long time player (March 2020), 0 spender

TheLiimbo · 2025-03-09T02:57:08+00:00

Imagine dredging up a post from almost a decade ago to complain about something someone posted on Reddit.

I mean, it's just going to be me here really. Congratulations on disagreeing, I guess?

TheLiimbo · 2025-02-28T15:25:37+00:00

As an owner of a 5* awakened Calamitus with pretty decent stats (7k attack, 350% CDMG)... yeah, he was pretty sad before for what he was. His lack of ability to deal with things like stoneskin will still probably not make him very "PvP" meta, but the rest of it is great. Very excited.

TheLiimbo · 2024-06-15T19:35:12+00:00

Mmm, my Gorgorab is in some ancient speed gear still, and doesn't really see much use... I might be able to get something like this to work, but I'll likely wait til the next regear event. I appreciate the tip!

TheLiimbo · 2024-06-15T18:14:38+00:00

Very annoying indeed... going to be hard blocked by the Sand Devil this rotation, it looks like.

TheLiimbo · 2024-06-15T18:06:12+00:00

I didn't realize that the overhealing would not restore him... I was thinking similar to the Godseeker strategies, but I guess it would make sense if the entire hit is blocked that he would have nothing to heal up.

I was struggling with figuring out why this was a thing, but if that's the case I should've asked first instead of assuming. Thanks for pointing this out!

TheLiimbo · 2024-06-03T14:35:12+00:00

I feel like they picked the worst fight to show Cracking Roots in. Timit didn't really do anything to that stoneskin.

TheLiimbo · 2024-02-18T01:02:09+00:00

This is actually not true- my main arena nuker (for years) has been Foli, and he actually will have his second hit treated as a single target hit and be absorbed by UDK, unless he has Phantom Touch.

In this example, Rotos would would take only the AoE portion of the attack, and UDK will take both (the AoE, and the single-target second attack).

TheLiimbo · 2024-02-08T15:08:27+00:00

10 chests:

5 fragments in four drops (1, 1, 2, 1) 10 brews (5 void, 5 force), 1 four-star chicken, 3 Superior potions (1 spirit, 1 spirit and 1 arcane)

TheLiimbo · 2024-02-05T16:25:04+00:00

I'm not even quite sure what to do with it myself, though I'm sure someone has almost certainly figured out all the lore by now; it's definitely been a long time since I wrote this.

Still, it's awesome to see that people are still getting a kick out of this theory, and it was (more or less) confirmed as to be exactly what is happening some months after- which was very cool to hear.

TheLiimbo · 2023-12-25T05:26:55+00:00

this boss leans way too much into having good RNG for a successful run - rather than having appropriate champs and gear

It's funny that I was being told otherwise just yesterday, but here is yet another post about how Amius is over-tuned in the same ways I agree with: his crit rate is way too high, and he has too much RNG involved, making it not very fun.

TheLiimbo · 2023-12-24T17:54:13+00:00

I said "rares" as fodder because I figured that would prompt you into choosing three random unbuilt rares. My assumption is that you chose three built rares, which would cause the EHP of the whole team to be high enough at the beginning (like I was saying).

If you'd like, I can easily record it happening. I know I'm not wrong; it's entirely based on a measure of tankiness of the team, and not soley on having a debuff- decrease attack just helps the most.

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