I love arena. I love the PvP track. What i dont love is the connection between the 2 being so…weak. OPR from my understanding has no PvP reward “cap” same with PvP faction missions that you can run infinitely with no cap however the newest, shiniest, most exciting piece of content (arena) gives very little in the reward department and even if you ignore that you also hit that soft cap that was added which is better than no rewards but still awful.
There is no reason why arena needs a cap on rewards at all, in fact it should give MORE. In the time i run 1 arena game, even if i win thats 750 xp and lets say 7 minutes of my time with queue and loading in. During that same time i could be in great cleave and have already 2 quests done (1000 xp) and be maybe halfway done with another 2. This doesnt make any sense. Why add a new mode and pvp track and make the newest mode not worth playing? I have met a lot of players that only care about the reward track and thus havent even bothered with arena yet cause its just not an efficient way to level up.
I currently have 197 arena wins and just hit track 20 meanwhile the great cleave farmers are double my progress and are also having no fun with the game because they are just mindlessly running in circles all day. I understand you dont want people to hit 200 immediately so im okay with arena being the way it is but you have to nerf the pvp quests to bring them more in line with other content and keep this patch alive longer. And just remove any cap on rewards for arenas because a lot of players came back to the game to play this one thing and the second you hit that cap it seems very pointless considering there isnt a ranked mode or leaderboards or anything yet. The only reason to play is pvp track.
All that being said I love this game. Arenas can be super fun and im sure itll get even better but im afraid the pvp track farm being most efficiently completed by doing the same quest for hours is going to drive players right back to other games.
P.S. Please figure out something about lifestaffs in solo queues cause 3 man premades vs 3 random dps just doesnt work well, pretfy much can only enjoy if youre partied up which is cool but some of us play too much and our friends dont want to as well xD