# Arena needs to be balanced

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-needs-to-be-balanced/6828>\
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PlayStation/Xbox)\
**Created:** [May 15, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-needs-to-be-balanced/6828 "2016-05-15T01:13:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Dread\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Dread\_Maximus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Dread_Maximus)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-needs-to-be-balanced/6828/1 "2016-05-15T01:13:07Z")

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Whether you do well or poorly is almost entirely dependent on what troop selection is presented to you and sometimes you don’t even get to pick a troop that has a mana type the arena supports. We should at least be able to pick our own banners for our teams. That, or let us see what troop choices we’ll get ahead of time so we don’t screw ourselves over in before we even pick the actual troops.

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**Author:** ![Zelfore](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zelfore/32/22295_2.png) [@Zelfore](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zelfore)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-needs-to-be-balanced/6828/2 "2016-05-15T01:21:10Z")

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Considering how console Arena makes you randomly pick your weapon as well as your troops, I think this suggestion would be a perfect fit for consoles:

> [@Arena troop pick suggestion](http://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-troop-pick-suggestion/6476):
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> Hi everyone! I’ve been playing this game for a while now and I’ve really been enjoying it, I think one aspect of Arena could be improved though. I think the process of picking troops would be more fun if you saw all 9 troops at the same time (still only picking one per rarity, of course). Structuring the picks like this instead would allow you to build more in terms of synergy and would also make it less likely to get “screwed” on colours. Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![wskill](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/wskill/32/1119_2.png) [@wskill](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/wskill)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-needs-to-be-balanced/6828/3 "2016-05-15T03:38:44Z")

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do it, gowdevvies

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**Author:** ![stabito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@stabito](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/stabito)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-needs-to-be-balanced/6828/4 "2016-05-18T00:20:22Z")

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i like the randomness of cards the way it is but i do agree that we need to be able to choose our own banner

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**Author:** ![anon43026234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@anon43026234](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/anon43026234)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-needs-to-be-balanced/6828/5 "2016-05-18T08:30:52Z")

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Why we cant choose the banner we want for our team in arena is something impossible to understand for me.

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**Author:** ![DemonicDraco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/demonicdraco/32/2034_2.png) [@DemonicDraco](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/DemonicDraco)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arena-needs-to-be-balanced/6828/6 "2016-05-18T09:04:08Z")

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I just hate how they made us pick a random weapon…