"Taejang;c-1745022" wrote:
"Indominable_J;c-1744821" wrote:
I don't know where you're getting this from. Arena and Fleet Arena heavily favor players who put their efforts into the right characters for those modes; however, those modes don't care how many characters you gear up -- I'm at 3.6m gp; there are people in my regular and fleet arena shards well over 4m gp, and some people under 3m gp still. Doesn't matter -- I still compete with them if they have 80 g12s or 8, as long as it's the right 8.
I have just over 450k GP in characters. If I want to reach top 15 or so in Arena in my shard right now, I'd need 20-25% of my entire roster's power concentrated into a single 5-man g12 team. On top of that, I'd need whatever characters are necessary to farm the right squad, be that Revan, or Traya, etc. Depending on which team I wanted, between the actual 5-man squad and those needed to acquire them it's likely I'd have 1/3 or more of my entire character GP behind my single 5-man Arena squad.
For Fleet Arena in my shard, I'd need 7 ships at a total GP level of about 230k to reach rank 15. Thankfully the pilots/ships don't need extra characters to acquire (only one Chimaera in my shard), but that's still 7-10+ high-gear pilots and their ships. My entire ship GP is 330k.
To reach rank 15 in both Arena and Fleet, I estimate at least 60% of my character GP and 70% of my ship GP would be used in, or to get, the 12-15+ characters needed for the squad and pilots plus their ships. So yes, the arena modes themselves don't care how much fluff your account has, but to be truly competitive there at my GP, I'd have to be pretty trim.
The arenas favor people with complete teams, yes. That doesn't mean the person with the fewest maxed out characters will win, it means people with the right characters who are maxed out will win. At your GP level, that's somewhat close to the same thing, but you're free to continue to develop additional characters once your arena teams are geared, without it somehow impacting your arena ranking. Your GP level is very low though, and that will change significantly.
