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Because arena is a dead game mode. Long queues since people are over it. BM wrecked class balance but on top of that 90% of ppl queuing in the 1400s have top 5 characters. I'd say arena is down to about 5 people on 10+ different accounts. If you don't have god ping/can't beat the best in your class then you are wasting your time

All the PVP in bns is dead. No mid-tier for 6v6. If you are typically a rank 10-50 fighter, you are guaranteed to be in matches with lots of rank 1s(even in 1400s elo). Arena is even worse. It's like 5 ultra sweaty bois with god ping with 20 bms/bds accounts each no skilling through matchups. You can queue for hours and only get exp alt bms. Until the class balance/matchups stop being garbage i think most of the player-base is pvping elsewhere.

There are a ton of options to be very successful at shackled. Can run sketchy exploits and pull a plubelle so that you're stacked with like 20 pve skills before the first persons foot touches the ground. Or pull a myndi and run like 4 deep in a premade group(gotta queue same time). Or be like those summoners with insane ranks that are always the first to die that just spam it over and over for the minimum match point. etc. etc. The trick to doing well is tying in macros with the pve skills.

Try playing summoner for a day. FMs can press one button from like 42m away to one shot nuke kitty and take half our HP. They literally don't even have to get into the fight. KFM is the most broken after awakened but the patch was MORE then generous to FM.

Ya new launcher is really buggy. I had it uninstall the entire game etc. Tried several times before I just gave up. Can just enter the game through bns buddy and have the added bonuses of getting game/pvp fixes along with it.