Pursuits of Alchemy (Arena) - Battle in the Arena for new 5-set Alchemy Talismans!

I'll pass on this event. I don't even know what to to run then on, and don't really want to change up my setups.

If you want the new set of talisman it will cost you 600 ironite if you either win all 375 battles or win 225 and purchase the remaining 2 talisman. That excludes any SoW you have from the dungeon event.

You earn 175 free Sow during the week, so you would need to buy 5 Sow refills to have 225 battles. This excludes any gauntlet battles you may want to play. Second you would need 20 refills to win all 375 battles.

This would be a much better event if it became a 2 week event so you could play both arena and gauntlet without spending too much ironite and at a reasonable rate of play. Winning 55 arena battles a day can be quite a strain on your time.

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Originally Posted by slauki

for everyone who wants to put in a lone eddie defense. please put a defense with 4 random guys at L100 instead without talismans. this way the attacker will get more gold and ironite drops

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Is there a way I can tell that they don't have talismans? The nice thing about the lone eddie defense is I know for sure I can beat them. A team with 4 L100s could easily become a loss for me since I haven't been able to pull anything to keep me competitive in the current meta.

I'm dropping mine too a lone Eddie. Mostly because I'm tired of arguing with the system constantly changing my teams to a lone Eddie....

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Originally Posted by Blade

My thoughts:
The new system for rewards is pretty good. I said a long time ago that a few extra rewards between the big milestones would be good for motivation. With e.g. 195 victories you were in a really bad position.
Fragments as rewards that can be used for different items is also a good idea because every player can choose rewards according to his own needs.

BUT!
375 is really a rude move. The jump from 200 victories to almost double is not justified. You could argue that the new set is powerful - and should be more difficult to get since it's a set of 5. I'm going a bit along with that. Therefore, I would have considered 250 wins to be appropriate.

But with 375 wins, the absolute majority of players are excluded. Estimated at 95%. Do you just want to have players with no life, no family and no job? Is that really the target group? Looks like it, which is just sad.
Unfortunately the Arena stats are still bugged, so you can't see how many wins you had last week. It's been that way for ages! So I can't say exactly what I had last week. But it was definitely not 375 - it was more like 250-275 and I finished in 5th place. This wouldn't even be enough for 4 talismans this week, which shows how out of place the 375 are.

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same here.

I did only a few arena fights to buy some cosmic fragments to get...my 3rd white T1 Cosmic Talisman...yeeees...awesome...I'm feeling so big now!

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Originally Posted by slauki

for everyone who wants to put in a lone eddie defense. please put a defense with 4 random guys at L100 instead without talismans. this way the attacker will get more gold and ironite drops

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Ah, good point!

Also, while Im not going for the talismans, Im quite enjoying the additional IC in the arena! Just about to hit 50 and quite excited for the drop to come!

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Originally Posted by MuzakMaker

Is there a way I can tell that they don't have talismans? The nice thing about the lone eddie defense is I know for sure I can beat them. A team with 4 L100s could easily become a loss for me since I haven't been able to pull anything to keep me competitive in the current meta.

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Should be fine as long as you pick lower level L100 chars, like golden sons/souless demons/bomber boys etc. Up above 1500 they rarely are seen in the arena, so its a good bet they'll be without talismans....

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Originally Posted by MuzakMaker

Is there a way I can tell that they don't have talismans? The nice thing about the lone eddie defense is I know for sure I can beat them. A team with 4 L100s could easily become a loss for me since I haven't been able to pull anything to keep me competitive in the current meta.

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just attack either teams, where i can guarantee an easy win (like weak defenses with a 3* eddie only) or pick easy lv100 enemies. (golden sons, bomber boys, some valkyres).
I'd say, just avoid any of the following in no particular order:
any of the new gods of powerslave (horus, osiris, ....)
any shinobi (blue is the easiest to beat, but her shock may cause some damage)
any derby demon or banshee
any alchemists
any other night city character (blue hellraiser, prime killer and similar)

If you avoid any of these, you'll find the easy teams.

pass this one