Question for top ranked FTP players

"leef;327420" wrote:
meta shifts will decrease the F2P in top arena ranks. cant addapt fast enought. catching up at lvl caps obviously helps. since the lvl cap is raised to 80 i noticed myself falling behind in team power and arena rank. im full f2p around rank 50-20. cant reach the top20 anymore because my original arena squad doesnt cut it anymore, need to build up new toons to compete wich is a painfully slow process.

This. Older shard f2p players are at a disadvantage, as many of them (if they were trying to compete in arena) have undoubtedly chased bad metas. Barris, then Poe, etc. The issue is that on an older shard, if the p2p players are still spending money to stay ahead of the curve, the f2p player takes longer to catch the new meta.

The level cap increases over time also hurt. Just before the level cap was raised I was in the top 20 and even snagged top 10 (with no refreshes) a couple of times. Now I am staying in the top 50...just barely. And I have to be fairly active at payout to do so. I did bank a day's worth of energy prior to the cap raise, that helped (I'll hit 75 in 12 hours or so).

I think what f2p players have to do with the level raise is simply push their arena team up as fast as they level. Then, when they finally hit the cap, continue to focus on your "B" heroes - just in case the meta shifts again. That way, you can swap in "B" heroes if they are the new meta over your "A" squad. At least this seemed to help when the cap hit 70. I worked on Ahsoka, ST Han and Droids. ST Han will hit 7* in 3-4 days and that will help a lot.