Has it sunk in yet?

"casper1jr;c-1794032" wrote:
The arena will change again like it has many times. You're chasing ranks, that's why it's no fun to you. You can't say one character broke the arena and then 6 months later say someone else broke it and so on. In 6 to 12 months there will be a change just like 1 year ago, 2 years ago and 3 years ago.

If you're stressed that much about top 50 then maybe it's time to take a step back and work on other toons that need attention. Its a fact that if you chase the ranks then you best be prepared for a battle. 50 people is not a lot of people, just wait for the 5 year mark when even more players start to join and rank up. Every year that goes by the game will get harder and harder as more context comes in.

Pick and choose your battles wisely as the game will only get harder as more context shoes up. As more toons come even more off the wall squads will show up as well.

Arena always changes, and I always adjust to it. I've always been an anti-meta person. When GK/Zarriss was meta, I used a Nihilus led squad. When it was Wiggs and Chaze, I used something else (don't remember, it's been so long). When it was Traya, I used Jango and other BH. All of my "anti-meta" squads were also able to hold on defense (to an extent).
I'm not stressed about anything. It's simply not fun now. I have never cared about how far I would drop between play sessions. But, I enjoy different challenges as opposed to one. As I pointed out originally, I have never seen a time when 88% (89% as of this morning) of arena #1's are the same leader. That should be screaming to anyone with half of a brain. When Traya was the main lead, I don't believe I ever saw it more than 60% (which, IMO, is still too high). When it was RJT and CLS, it was around 50%.

There are so many fun characters and squads that could be fun to try in different areas, but they are pigeonholed into event runs, TW, and/or TB. I'd love to see the Q'ira squads. They aren't over-powered and have some of the most fun and unique mechanics the game has put out. I'd like to see other Jedi featured (During the very brief Jawa/Droid meta, I countered with IGD lead). Variety is good. Variety is fun. Swapping out Bastilla for Chewie or Ezra is not variety. Running CLS, NS, whatever, and then immediately switching to Revan when you get to your spot is not variety.
As for the one part of your post when you mention working on my other characters:
1. Why? It's not like ramping up Carth Onasi is going to be viable in the arena
2. Minus some of the very useless older characters (CUP, Sand People), all my characters are g12. All of my higher end toons have the left side of g12 complete, and slowly adding the right side.

I get that Arena is only one small part of this game, and that everyone has different parts they enjoy more than others. But the sheer lack of variety and smallest semblance of balance is gone, and is now just another time of slogging through boring fight after boring fight. Personally, I don't get why people defend The Revan team. The only thing I can think of is that it's leveled the playing field for the "have-nots".