When you think about it, this really isn't a game. When you have to auto a fight it's the closest to playing the game offers. I haven't opened a single shard higher than mystery since October waiting for the upcoming fusion.

Want to open shards? No, wait for a 2x but also wait for a fusion because you need shards to fuse the champ. Want to upgrade that new artifact? No, wait for an artifact upgrade event. If you want to maximize your play, you need to wait. Some of this is OK but having to wait 180 days for game changing characters doesn't inspire me to keep playing. It makes me want to quit because the first 179 days are way to difficult. Paying your dues isn't the best for a game that struggles to keep people playing for the long term. Raid time gates significant portions of the game. I would most likely skip but I know I will need the champs because as a F2P it's the only sure way to compete. Fusions are stressful just because I have know I will need to spend MORE time in game.I can start a work call and put a team on auto battle. And so much of what I am doing isn't even playing, it's just clicking mindless replays of battles. Because I need all the possible resources, I need to do everything. Right now, as pretty much F2P, I am spending pretty much my entire day in the game. Once again, not sure the fix here but there is just way to much mental fatigue and unfairness involved with Arena considering your progression hinges on Arena. I have had to constantly refresh just to stay somewhat close to gold 1. Over night, I lost 9 battles bringing me to Silver 4. Yesterday, I was attacked 5 times and I won about half of the defense battles. Also, if you are right on the edge of Silver 4 and Gold 1, you are like preselected to be attacked more often.

Because of the punitive nature of Arena losses, I don't want to risk fighting someone and losing because I will lose as much as 13 arena points. Not to mention there are implications to falling ranks like losing stat % increases. I am getting hammer by teams with 50k - 100k more team power dripping in leggos. And, whenever you say this people always want to say, 'What's your team?' like my is 3 level 50 Uncommons and a Warpriest. Your next few months is dealing with arena just to advance in missions. Then you have a mission like unlock a Tier 8 great hall bonus. The Arbiter mission system is absolutely broken.I have barely spent $20 on the game and I feel ashamed for even spending that much. It does nothing but disappoint and frustrate me. After about 150 days of playing Raid heavily, I am asking myself why I even play the game.

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