I am mega hyped that the arena is now playable on the PTR even if I find it sad that there is no EU server on which I can test it. You did a very good job by adding pillars which makes it more competitive than an open field.
However, I am not completely satisfied with some of the options you have and I think many players feel the same way.
1.) You can see who you are playing against in the waiting room.
2.) You can change the EQ in the waiting room
3.) You can change gems in the waiting room
You can completely customize because you know what’s coming and that’s going to be really expensive and also not fun.
These are my main points that make me worry that the whole thing will only be something for the rich.
This could be interesting in tournaments, if they have tournaments someday. But you are correct… This shouldn’t be allowed.
And once they don’t allow it, it will be easy to control things like healers per team. Hopefully we’ll see that stuff added in future PTR patches this cycle.
We should not be allowed to see the other teams’s characters at all before the start.
Oh, and something needs to be done about pre-aiming bow shots at the beginning of a match, that shouldn’t be a thing at all. People are being obligated to move to the sides of the opening area just to avoid that.
You guys need to add a gate that opens as soon as the match starts, and that same gate blocks targetting and seeing enemy’s names.