don’t forget the biggest bots that go by the name “team 5” and are since the dawn of (game) time proving how “competent” they are
Yes it’s true. What do you mean you don’t get a legendary? You get ONE legendary at the beginning of the selection process and from that point you are never allowed to draft another legendary. It’s by design to discourage the barcode players from drafting super decks to sell. You are guaranteed that one legendary at the beginning though so you can build around it if possible.
It used to be a “Bucket” system for drafting but they moved to a system that they themselves removed specific cards from the pool. IE a curated pool of cards.
Source???
New form of Arena balancing[edit | edit source]
On May 13th, 2022, along with micro-adjustments and removals of certain underperforming or build-around cards from drafts, a new card appearance frequency balancing method was introduced. As of May 13th, 2022, as said by developers: “This method is still under development, but the team is rolling out a version now to address immediate issues. This method is a work in progress, and more adjustments will follow if this round falls short of our goals.”.[56]
The removal of weak cards and low-performing synergy cards are aimed at reducing the number of draft picks with no good options. “Long term, we want build-around cards and synergy decks to be viable strategies, but we need an Arena environment designed to support that goal. The team is exploring options now.”[56]
With this hotfix, described by developers as a “New era for Arena”, new balance updates are expected to be done shortly after each patch, plus additional balance updates as needed."[56]
You can find this all in the wiki for Arena. That particular section is at the bottom of the page as it’s the last major change they did to Arena.
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OK, but it seems like a hasty job from them, since I don’t see much constitution in the selection process and it still feels totally random and volatile.
If you play Arena enough you will see that they removed a whole bunch of worthless choices from the pool and just left in mostly cards that are powerful or have good synergy with what you are drafting. It’s less random overall and can lead to some pretty powerful decks being drafted frequently.
I’m not sure; next time I draft I’ll try to get some synergy cards; maybe the stars will align and get their pairings to some extend.
I don’t play Arena much but in the last few months my drafts were VERY bad if I tried to get good synergy cards.
An example is to have two excavation cards and then NOTHING from excavation leaving them almost like duds.
Oh you can still get offered garbage. The change just gives you a much better chance of getting those cards you need over getting cards that are 100% worthless.
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Just not convinced the Format should continue in that form. It’s too random. I can’t stop wondering how great it would be if it was only semi-random; have something like an initial choice out of 3-4 from a pool of 20-30 random collections of 10-15 synergy cards (e.g. excavation packages (one for each excavation class) or a “stealing priest” package or a “wishing well rogue” package); and then you get to pick from random cards for the remaining of the total 30.