yep fixed now
yep fixed now
I banged out like 50 extra fights. Was nice.
I didn't get home from work until it had already been patched, /emo.
I was late for work but wanted to set up BlazingFast before leaving. I noticed I was close to ding, so decided to burn arena orbs, then ding, then start macro. I burned down to 50xp, then tried to burn arena orbs. Tried some more. Kept trying. Noticed that as I was playing, I wasn't increasing in rank. Actually worked at it, played lots of battles over and over, and I ended up going from rank 2800 last night, to ~1200 now. I guess I just outlasted the others.
First world problem: I never did start blazingfast. My ludmille is at 98%, with some other ones not far behind. Ugh. And with 10k points for the month of december (ie, today), I'm barely in the top 1200.
Yes, I know it was an exploit. But I'm going to be pissed if I fought in arena for 2 hours straight and they just wipe all progress. I really didn't want to lose my <3000 spot. Although I guess if they wipe progress, getting an entire arena medal board worth of medals isn't a bad reward.
I use the golem staff and thorn mace. It rapes anybody that doesn't have immunity.
I have a rising sun and still prefer that combo on CoD.
Kewl I'll try it out
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Welp @ the arena bug fix- kinda demoralized about this month's ranking now :/
Would honestly say they should just wipe it and start everyone off with 2k points or something to emulate natural refresh rate for a bit.
Fuck. I was really confused why I fell 2k ranks. The 2 hour extension this morning pushed servers coming back up while I was at work so I couldn't dump orbs this morning when I woke up. By time I was able to play any I had wasted an orb or two sitting at cap and missed out on this infinite run bullshit. Pushed me back to 3500 and each orb I use is only providing me about 50 points now. That's pretty fucked up.
If you'd be pissed that you lost exploited progress, how should someone who got pushed outta top 3k feel? Shits pretty fucked up. Their best bet if they give a fuck is to just give top 3k rewards to top 10k or some shit.
I didn't have much time to abuse it myself, but I was at least able to maintain my position while I was at work today. I was confused as hell when I saw my orbs weren't going down since it started happening to me after my game crashed.
Today I pushed Bartz to 82, finished Rising Sun #3, and Blade Mastery(Thank you Blazing Fast).
New plan for tms is to use three slots to run duplicates and the other two for dps items. Kefka x3, Maxwell, and Xiao up next. After Kefka I'll run through Leo and Celes.
Yeah, didn't mean it to be quite as personal as it sounded. Extra vitriol coated my post from some less than stellar news from Amazon/UPS about my FFXV order. I'm more aggravated at the situation. Lost my top 3k for weekly and went from top 1k for monthly to being back in 18k~. It's really stupid and doesn't exactly drive me to want to do much arena this month unless they do something. Maybe I'll use more orbs to grind colloseum for a trophy and just do it enough to stay top 30k this month.
Feeling real good about this:
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Arena broken again, it is currently giving infinite 20 lapi / clear daily rewards making it lapi neutral refills.
At this point, they should probably just nix the competitive aspect and simply have monthly tier rewards per month that everyone gets if you exceed.
This is so boring, but it gives me something to do while watching the Cowboys... and those sweet sweet arena medals are piling up (up to 650 banked so far).
I make an arena macro for my team each week so at least all I have to do is wait for my turn, hit the macro and wait for them to die, repeat.
They should have ended the ranking BEFORE maintenance. Started new TODAY after maintenance.
Looks like they did the smart thing and reset the monthly arena boards again today. At least I got to profit from the 1000 bonus arena medals, and no one is going to be screwed out of arena bracket rewards.
and compensation:
King Tough Pot
Tough Pot x3
Arena Summon tickets x10