Arena timer needs to be longer.

No

Maybe try something other than a mirror match? There are counters to every team that don't risk timeout.

5 min is enough. You can’t blame the timer for timing out against mirror matches. You may want to rethink your strategy for attacking mirror teams.

"CCyrilS;c-1688005" wrote:
Is 4x really 4x? Always felt to me like 1x was half speed, 2x was normal, and 4x is double. Been so long since the change...would have to find some old vids to compare I guess.

I think you're right and I believe one of the game changes did a video on this a while back.

I know that CG didn't add 2x and 4x for arena. Their statement was it would reduce time for things like Raids and GW.

I'm generally against adding 8x or extra time to arena (8x elsewhere would be fine). With that said, @cannonfodder_iv made an interesting point about animation duration. Some of the more prominent ones in this meta do seem long. It'd be interesting if someone compared the animations of GMY, Nihilus, and Bastilla to some of the original character animations. Having a standard and/or max animation duration could help.

If you cant finish them in 5 min, so do your opponents.

"GambrinusKluk;c-1688301" wrote:
The 5 min times for arena is just fine. Part of the defense strategy in arena is making your opponent time out, and you just want to take that away from them...

CG/EA made it fairly clear when the nerfed Barris due to the Barris time-out teams that popped up when her zeta went into effect, that teams that timeout are not intended to be a viable arena "defense" strategy. I realize you just joined the forums earlier this year, so may not have been around for that situation. But no, "timeout" is not part of the defense strategy in arena - and it is not intended to be, as evidenced by CG/EA's quick nerf to Barris' zeta when it was for a short time.

Honestly, I think the only reason this hasn't been addressed yet is that it primarily benefits whales who paid for Revan, so CG/EA is dragging their collective feet on it intentionally. Similar to the way they refuse to address or even discuss the horribly top-heavy reward structure of the Heroic Sith Raid regarding g12+ gear. These not-so-subtle shifts in policy and response over the past 14 months or so is deeply concerning.

"Nikoms565;c-1688366" wrote:

"GambrinusKluk;c-1688301" wrote:
The 5 min times for arena is just fine. Part of the defense strategy in arena is making your opponent time out, and you just want to take that away from them...

CG/EA made it fairly clear when the nerfed Barris due to the Barris time-out teams that popped up when her zeta went into effect, that teams that timeout are not intended to be a viable arena "defense" strategy. I realize you just joined the forums earlier this year, so may not have been around for that situation. But no, "timeout" is not part of the defense strategy in arena - and it is not intended to be, as evidenced by CG/EA's quick nerf to Barris' zeta when it was for a short time.

Honestly, I think the only reason this hasn't been addressed yet is that it primarily benefits whales who paid for Revan, so CG/EA is dragging their collective feet on it intentionally. Similar to the way they refuse to address or even discuss the horribly top-heavy reward structure of the Heroic Sith Raid regarding g12+ gear. These not-so-subtle shifts in policy and response over the past 14 months or so is deeply concerning.

Timeout is definitely a legit strategy in TW. I don't see why arena should be any different. I hope they don't ever add time to arena. Last thing I want is for them to make any game mode even longer than it is.

It's not just mirror matches, results are the same against well modded Traya squads running sith trooper. The arena timer was set three years ago when the longest fight was less than two minutes. With the power creep and all the extra ways toons have to stay alive it isn't unreasonable to ask for an extra minute to be added. They were ok with taking away time from the fleet arena timer when ships 2.0 came out.

"Benny_Monstosity;c-1687921" wrote:
It's not just mirror matches, results are the same against well modded Traya squads running sith trooper. The arena timer was set three years ago when the longest fight was less than two minutes. With the power creep and all the extra ways toons have to stay alive it isn't unreasonable to ask for an extra minute to be added. They were ok with taking away time from the fleet arena timer when ships 2.0 came out.

They've also doubled the speed....

"Benny_Monstosity;c-1687921" wrote:
It's not just mirror matches, results are the same against well modded Traya squads running sith trooper. The arena timer was set three years ago when the longest fight was less than two minutes. With the power creep and all the extra ways toons have to stay alive it isn't unreasonable to ask for an extra minute to be added. They were ok with taking away time from the fleet arena timer when ships 2.0 came out.

I wouldn't expect it to change until squad arena 2.0 comes out. I can beat most Traya squads in less than two minutes with non Revan teams. Including Trooper teams. If you're timing out you may want to try different teams.