Dev Q and A Question Gathering Time!

[Whiskeyjack]

@Mariana

Please, please tell us what you are going to do about Dawnbringer on defense in the arena?

Just to add to this:

• This hugely affects my guild, which has many lower level players. A lot of them relied on Arena to farm souls, and now don’t play it any more because they can rarely win against dawnbringer.
• In October the Devs said they were looking at Arena (quote below). So I would like the question to be: “In October you acknowledged that Dawnbringer was a problem in arena. What have you done to address this and when will the update be released?”

@Whiskeyjack

Will there be an arena re-work in the future? What are you planning to do about Dawn Bringer in Arena?

“Emphatic YES!” (Sirrian says ‘yarrr’ like a pirate)
Arena was originally build for troops at level 10, and was since upped to 15. But the way that weapons and hero power have progressed hasn’t been conducive to late game players. For players at level 50 - 100 it’s really fun and lots of players play it at that point in the game.
They have some ideas, like adding epic troops, removing the hero from arena, limiting certain weapons, or (as a temporary measure) stopping dawnbringer from showing up in defence.
Nim suggests scaling hero back in arena but says some weapons are problematic - dawnbringer is just the latest (runic blade and burning scythe were the ones before it). It’s better to fix the problem in arena than to nerf weapons.