People's thoughts on the phantom BST skills?

They should have fixed the broken scoring system that kills all diversity in arena directly rather than introducing yet another paid way to get some very small improvement

I don't know how it'll impact me. I'll have to wait and see if it impacts my getting into T21 every other week.

I think that they are a great idea, obviously the characters carrying these skills don't score as much as 175BST units, and i feel like it's the right decision, like people who spent money have a little bit more.
The skill being in the A slot is also the best possible option as you will have to give it to your core which is not meant to take kills anyway, and the A slot is normally used for offensive skills, also the units gets +5hp which is something that could turn out to be usefull when you don't expect it.

I'd prefer if they were seals. Too many possible targets for what duel skills we have need their A skills.

I just hope they'll bring em in more, in differend ways.
If it's just a few +5 hp skills on 5* exlusive characters, it's kinda ehh

Personally I'm not that interested in getting into tier 21, but I can see why it annoys people.

Someone will hate me but ok, I think the new Duel skills are a "good" thing cause it will help the support units score better and since they won't fight giving up the A skill slot won't hinder them from doing their job(that is to support the bonus unit).

Yes they could have just fixed the arena scoring itself but when the "bonus unit kill bonus" thing became a thing, my hopes of IS fixing the arena scoring became almost nonexistant at that point. so if they won't fix it then the next best thing is to make Arena work properly this time.

What they should do is 1) remove the bonus kill system - 2) alter the team scoring element of arena's bonus unit system (where the bonus unit multiplies the team score) so that instead the arena seasonal bonus units get treated as having the Duel skills as a free/additional/secondary A skill.

This would give BST 175 units perennial scoring value and allow them to be removed as bonus units, and importantly it would also allow the season's units to run optimal sets, instead of HP +5 as an A skill.

Meanwhile, by removing the bonus kill system, they wouldn't be punishing people who have none of the bonus units except for the Askrans or Fjorm (who have limited merge potential), and they'd also be allowing people to employ the same teams and strategies as they usually employ (but still meanwhile getting something from the seasonal system).

If they then also gave the Askrans special duel A skills that treated them as +10 merge, then, during their bonus seasons, they'd be treated as maximum scoring units!

I currently don't care for them. At least not until infantry blue comes out. I'll immediately put that on my +8 Micaiah and she'll be back on my team.

They're a terrible substitute for what should have been an actual Arena scoring fix. At the very least, they could have been put on a different, less important slot like C or as a Seal.