#Arena Changes, what do you think?

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Proposed Arena Changes

  • Remove Red Chest
  • Remove Respawn Beacons
  • Add small creeps
  • Add a mini boss
  • Add a smaller version of the "Heart"
  • Shield starts as Green and evolves to Blue after capturing the camp
  • Green/Blue/Purple powers can be bought from the shop
  • Add 30 seconds to every round

Powers

Red powers often break the game.
For example, when a team with Myth/Shiv/Ghost gets an Armor Shredder, or a team with Void/Oath/KP gets a Blink Stone, the balance is completely thrown off.

To improve balance, some powers should be removed and many new ones should be added.

Powers that should be removed or never appear in the Arena:

  • All Red powers (except Frog Jump)
  • All Gold powers (except Wisp Vacuum and Abyssal Fang)
  • Raven
  • All costume powers
  • Touch powers (except Touch of Life)

Creeps and Shop

The shop now sells powers for:

  • Green: 700 gold
  • Blue: 800 gold
  • Purple: 1000 gold

These powers are permanent once bought, but players can still hold only one at a time.
Gold and Red powers cannot be purchased and are losable.

Killing creeps grants 250 gold to each nearby player.
This means your team can earn and spend 1000 gold every round—except the first.

Mini Boss, Heart, and Camp

Each arena map currently has 3 camp spawn points.
The spawn point location will still be random, but the unused points will now have new objectives:

Mini Boss

  • Can drop a Red Power, Gold Power, or 4 equipment fragments
  • Equipment fragments can be used to upgrade gear
  • Be careful—any drop can be stolen

Heart

  • Enables uninterruptible revives
  • Replaces current Respawn Beacons, which make reviving nearly impossible
  • Adds more strategic play around revives

I believe these changes would lead to more strategic playes, better power usage, and more fair matches.

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I think adding creeping to arena is a bad idea

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I think changing the available powers makes sense but probably a big thing is powers shouldn't be carried over between rounds

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I think having a heart in the map doesn't sound good - especially since you wanted to place it in the middle of one of the bonfire locations?
Maybe the idea is that they all swap around each round, but I think respawn beacons make sense instead of a heart
You also probably shouldn't be able to go to other arenas to rez although it is fun imo

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reviving is absolutely possible with current respawn beacons you just have to go to them earlier than happens in most pubs, and you're required to accept the space loss, so if the game is getting hard lost its not really viable - but this makes sense otherwise you'd be playing with resurgence lol