The Arena

Started 9 Mar 2021
by Uthred
in Tavern
Welcome to the Arena!
Starting next week we’ll try an arena rotation with different group sizes. Next week we’ll start with 1v1, the week thereafter will be 4v4 and the week after that it will be 8v8.
For now we’ll do 2 rotations and then reevaluate the effects.
Stats are tracked and depending on the participation those will be made available at a later point either on the Herald or something else.

The Arena will be open the following days 8pm CET to midnight CET and from 8pm EST to midnight EST:
1vs1
March 15th, April 9th
4vs4
March 26th, April 12th
8vs8
March 29th, April 23rd

Basic rules:
1. Port to the Arena safe zone via the Registry Npc in your local border keep
2. You are now RR7. do /train and distribute your realm points (only if this character is the first time in the Arena)
3. The group leader has to click <register> on the registry npc to list your group for fights
4. As soon as a group has been found to fight you, you will get ported to an instance
5. Get ready for the fight, pets will spawn automatically on classes that can charm a pet
6. Both group leaders have to do /arena ready
7. After a best of 3, both groups will be ported back to the safe zone
8a. If you want to fight again, just wait until the next fight starts
8b. If you want to stop, type /arena unregister and leave the zone via the teleporter

Matches are a best of 3 with cool downs / RAs only resetting between matches. The up to 3 rounds are back to back in the same arena location.

Useful Commands:
/arena ready: Ready up in preparation phase, must be used by group leader (after you got ported to the fight location)
/arena unregister: Cancels registration when not in a tournament or stops auto queue when currently in a tournament
/arena autoqueue: Enables automatically queueing again after a tournament is over. If you don't use this command, you have to register again after a tournament is over.
/arena queued: Lists all teams of all sizes that are queued for a tournament.
/arena current: Infos about the current tournaments
/arena info: shows arena instruction text
/arena list: shows a list of all groups by names (8man only feature)
/arena list classes: lists all groups by classes (8man only feature)

Rewards:
Arena participation counts towards participating in the general participation task. Arena kills count towards kill tasks. There is a reward at the end of each round.
Tue 27 Apr 2021 6:20 PM by Uthred
Here is a short update on the Arena. After doing 2 full rotations of the three different group sizes (1/4/8) we think that the Arena should stay and become a permanent feature on Phoenix. It is a short-term variety and only having it once per week should still make it somewhat special. At the moment we are discussing some potential changes but nothing has been decided yet.

Our plan is to come to a conclusion very soon and to restart the Arena after the next event(s). Stay tuned for more infos.
Wed 28 Apr 2021 5:26 PM by msitruk
Yes 8v8 and 4v4 every weeks Always the same day could allow people to build something regular in team.
Wed 28 Apr 2021 5:28 PM by keen
Please consider changing 4v4 into 5v5, you can't play mid basically. My guess is with 5v5 it will be a bit better.
Wed 28 Apr 2021 10:45 PM by ExcretusMaximus
keen wrote:
Wed 28 Apr 2021 5:28 PM
Please consider changing 4v4 into 5v5, you can't play mid basically. My guess is with 5v5 it will be a bit better.

Why's that?

You don't need speed in the arena, it's Healer, Shaman, DPSx2.
Sun 23 May 2021 3:48 PM by Uthred
The Arena will continue. Below you will find the dates for the next two full rotations for the 3 different groupsizes.

The 8v8 format remains as it was, including sometimes being a test bed for certain changes.
The 4v4 format will be changed to 5v5.
The 1v1 format will either see 1v1 arena only changes or class banning, that will be decided before the first 1v1 arena.

The Arena will be open the following days 8pm CET to midnight CET and from 8pm EST to midnight EST:
June 4th: 8vs8 Arena
June 7th: 5vs5 Arena
June 18th: 1vs1 Arena
June 21st: 8vs8 Arena
July 2nd: 5vs5 Arena
July 5th: 1vs1 Arena
Tue 15 Jun 2021 3:43 PM by vxr
"June 18th: 1vs1 Arena "
"The 1v1 format will either see 1v1 arena only changes or class banning, that will be decided before the first 1v1 arena. "

The 1v1 Arena is going to be open soon. Any info regarding the class banning?
Wed 16 Jun 2021 3:00 PM by Uthred
Only for the upcoming 1vs1 Arena (June 18th), we will ban the top 3 classes that had the best %-winrate during the previous Arena, which are:

Bonedancer
Necromancer
Champion


These three classes wont be able to take part in it.
Thu 17 Jun 2021 12:51 AM by Irkeno
Nice.

Not sure champ was needed given the style adjustment they've received but could be wrong.

But 100% just Permaban BD from it, Played correctly/above averagely it cannot be beaten as there is just too much cheese potential.
Thu 17 Jun 2021 7:25 AM by kosen
Any chance we could have a 2v2 arena at some point, a good bunch of us love to duo, but when you only have a couple of hours to play a week at the evening, Its really hard to find a decent fight, sometimes even impossible.
I know am not alone on this 😉
Tue 6 Jul 2021 5:28 PM by Uthred
The Arena will continue.

The Arena will be open from 6 PM UTC until 4 AM UTC the following day:

July, 16th: 8vs8 Arena
July, 19th: 5vs5 Arena
July, 30th: 1vs1 Arena
August, 2nd: 8vs8 Arena
August, 13th: 5vs5 Arena
August, 16th: 1vs1 Arena
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