Interesting dilemma IS has imposed on AR enthusiasts

W8 what? Still not check AR now that feels somehow stupid like hell cause like you said more Units and Blessing every 2 weeks cause Boni Hero......

It's basically this: Arena and AR are treated separately with their own season rotation. I suppose this diversifies your specialty units. One group is more optimal in arena while the other is more for AR.

Well, I don't care too much about keeping track of blessings.
I care for the cool afterglow effect.

It's just annoying to keep switching around teams, and have them build to work with legendary heroes.

Anyway, on to the topic. I hope this means IS will double down on AR by making updates to it. Small and big.
If they can keep that up, it might have a good future. Arena isn't horrible, but I feel like it's in a state that it'll stay the same for a long time.
Keeping AR fresh is the key to keeping it alive.

What gets me is that they've made AR into yet another mode where how well you can do is determined almost entirely on how much you open your wallet for new banners.

Extreme case right now would be, single unit with blessing + some kind of support unit + 3 eirs, fully merged. Assuming a perfect game, that'd end up being 100 aether + 30 from the merge bonus, x30% = 173 aether for a win. Thats with just the single blessing. Once a second becomes available that'd end up more than doubling your score.*

Doesn't help that eir is hot garbage and would never be used outside of AR. Moot point for me tho. Even if she was something better than a crappy flying celica with a convoluted statline I wouldnt dream of blowing that kind of money on this dumb p2w non-sense

*Edit: nvm that math, misread the first bonus as being a % rather than a flat increase. Also wasnt accounting for the fact that eir probably counts as being blessed as well. Irregardless, your access to merged "mythic" heroes is going to be a huge factor in your score. Also one of the nice things about AR was that unlike arena you werent locked into using specific units because of scoring potential outside the bonus units (which you got to choose from and tbh is needed in order to create some variance from week to week). They literally just took a crap on that in the name of enticing whales

I'm not even bothering putting Anna (my only bonus unit) on any of my offense teams as she doesn't fit (and is so poor as a unit), I can't even care they're doing anything else to 'fight Veronica/Lyn/Rein and a dancer mode'.