Originally Posted by
Keebler2
With the Arena now out for almost 8 weeks some of the newness has worn off. I have ground out rank 4 on several characters, including my achievement toon Conq with 132 pets, Sin with 29 Pets, Bear Shaman with 47 pets, and Hox with 42 Pets. As with most of my characters, these have T4 gear and have very good AAs.
The Conq required 150 victories to achieve rank 4 with some grinding of the legendary Dragon.
The Sin required 268 victories to achieve rank 4 as I could not reliably kill the legendary Dragon.
The Hox required 225 victories to achieve rank 4 as I could not reliably kill the legendary Dragon.
The Bear Shaman required 173 victories to achieve rank 4 with some grinding of the legendary Dragon.
I have moved on to several toons that do not have that many pets. As a veteran of the game, I have the gold and will be able to buy some off the trader but I am looking at several weeks of grinding per toon to be able to get to rank 4. This grind would be worse if I did not have the ability to acquire more pets or the gold.
While the number of victories is high to achieve rank 4, the time sink is really unacceptable. It is not unusual to get only 4 fights per hour. The time sink could be solved by removing the restriction for the Sparring Pits and allowing faction points to accrue beyond rank 2 within this arena.
This would also allow the Main Arena to support more PVP by allowing the PVE to remain in the sparring pits.
If you also wanted to increase the faction xp for repeat kills, I would not mind.