Please revamp the Ranked Crystal Arena mode and change the format to deathmatch. Here's what you can do:

Disallow new players into Ranked arena (Unranked is there for a reason).
Set a required minimum of unranked arenas before you unlocked ranked arenas.
Remove the 3 point domination system
Add in the legacy maps that rotate every week
150 total tickets and each death counts as - 10 pts.
Team that has more tickets at the end of the match wins.

I love capture point systems but unfortunately the community in this game can't handle it. They're either too tunnel vision focused on just kills. So if it's kills they want, just give it...

Here's an example; my team was short 1 person cause he just afked in the base all match. We managed to win though because I was the only one capturing points. Oh but capturing points in a game mode where that's the primary objective is considered being a "rat" now? This just shows the level of ignorance.... At least the other team captured points but they again were so focused on deathmatch outside our base they lost....This isn't an isolated incident either...so many games end up with just fights outside the main base because the players (for whatever reason) can't handle the current game mode the way it's intended...

Keep the Crystal League the same, but change the Crystal Arena (or at least add in more modes such as deathmatch and "capture the crystal").


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2 matches later....same thing....

Hey man just trying to dumb it down so the community actually knows what to do.

Hello @Emii and thanks for taking the time to ask.

Here are some suggestions for min requirement for ranked:

PvP Fame Requirement - Not a huge fan of this but you could make it so players would need PvP fame before unlocking ranked. (5-10m is fair).

Unranked Arena Prerequisite - Players must play X amount of unranked arena matches before unlocking Ranked Arenas.

Arena Leveling System - Have an arena leveling system that goes alongside the rank system. Games like Guild Wars 2 use a system like this. In that system, you must be Level 20 before you can compete in ranked arenas. This would take the most resources to implement vs the above suggestions. Leveling up would give reward chests based on your current rank.

Reward Tracks - As you level up you progress through reward tracks that grant items such as vanity skins, additional skill tomes, and death emotes at the end of it.

For your second question:

You are correct about the old resource maps. Why not repurpose these in the Crystal Arena? Every new season, switch out the current map for another one and this could also work with game modes.

Game Modes:

I personally like the 3-point domination style arenas but unfortunately, most of the players can't handle the game mode. This results in a horrible experience for both teams. Here are some suggestions:

TDM - Team Death Match - Each team has X amount of total points and each kill reduces these by X amount. The team with the most points at the end of the match wins.

Capture the Crystal - Utilizing the same maps as domination you could have a capture-the-flag style game mode. When the match starts, a crystal spawns in one of the 3 capture zones (or just in the middle of the map). A player must click on the crystal to attach it to them (like how power cores work now). The player will be unable to use movement abilities while carrying the crystal. The player can drop the crystal if overwhelmed to escape, and immediately drops the crystal if they use stealth abilities. If you successfully return the crystal to your team's base you get X amount of points. The first team to capture the crystal X amount of times or have the most points at the end of the match wins.

Furthermore, make it so the matchmaking algorithm at least tries to make the healers closer to item / gear. This is the latest match I've played. Notice the difference in IP and gear with my healer vs the enemy team. My healer rage quit btw as well. Nothing like having a 4.1 healer vs a healer in 8.1 +...it was a loss right out of the gates and we all knew it...That's not matchmaking that's just frustrating.


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Revamp the arena and make it death match. More then 50% of the matches are full of complete idiots who have no idea how to play this game mode and just want kills.

Change the game mode to Team Death Match! This is what the majority of players actually want since that's all they ever seem to do. I'm sick of constantly having to carry these morons because they're too busy fighting in mid while you have no points captured. THEY DON'T CARE AT ALL. So to stop wasting a lot of people's time just change the stupid game mode from DOMINATION to TEAM DEATH MATCH. If you won't change it then add TDM as an option you can queue for.

Example of what I mean. Morons fighting indefinitely in the middle while you just lose anyways cause they A: Can't Kill Anything because they're dumb / can't focus targets B: Have 0 map awareness so will be 3 capped while they are attacking the enemy base again like idiots. Maybe arena is full of bots I'm not sure because this is happening ALL THE FUCKING TIME! (I doubt there's a bot problem, it's a human problem).

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Point proven again. We had 0 caps and got pushed into the base. The team wasn't doing anything so I back-capped a few points, killed some defenders and the team got enough balls to get out of the base. From there they just fought in the middle of the map while we again lost all 3 points. So I had to get the points and get us back into the game because the team went from fighting outside our home base to fighting in the middle point... That is until we pushed them to their base and then the enemy team stopped fighting...So without "ratting" we would have lost. This is why Strategy != Ratting for all you simps out there in your bloodletter/deathgiver builds.

Change the game mode to Death Match because that's what the masses want. I personally like Domination mode but clearly others do not. I also don't use "meta" builds because I'm frankly sick of hearing that word in gaming PERIOD. Meta builds have destroyed any sense of fun in creating builds because the masses (morons) can't think for themselves.

Furthermore, stop allowing people like this into Ranked Arenas. This player queued as a healer but was using a carving sword and after realizing he sucks ass just afked for 2 mins then logged out of the game giving my team an instant loss. Players NEED to do a minimum amount of X (I'd say 50-100) Unranked Crystal Arena. Those with special needs like this fellow just waste people's time. I've done my unranked match min requirement....others need to do the same.

I've played close to 2000 arena games between unranked and ranked. Up until ranked crystal arenas the regular non-crystal arena was very niche. I didn't have any reason to complain about it, and frankly, the unranked matches I played until last year have been way better than your average crystal arena.

Don't talk to me about professionalism on a game forum. I gave suggestions and was trolled for it so I defend myself from idiots like that. Don't like it too bad since nobody else seems to care then why should I? I'm not a fan (or will never be a fan) of battle royal games. I could see a system like that in AO though, but don't change the arena for it. The only thing that needs to change is to make the crystal arena (not league) team death match. The problems won't be solved with the matchmaking system but at least the masses will no longer have to worry about capping points since everyone calls you a rat for doing it (which is completely stupid btw).

Anyways thanks for your feedback.