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I had nice little battle for the win today. I had 200 less arena rating than the other guy when we had equal points on weekly challenge. So I calculated that I could beat the other guy even if I have to spend lots of tickets. That’s cos raising arena rating on master league is really hard at our flock level. As it turns out his arena rating stayed at 7334 when his weekly challenge rate rose over from 950 to 1300 points when my weekly arena rating went to 1280 and my rating topped at 7610 when I reached masters league. Oh how I hate this game…

 

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It is there to notify how many more chests you need to open before you have gotten all the apples for the day available via opening treasures. Basically trying to motivate you to to log on / play more later to get the apples.

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Most of my group seems to have a score for today. When I play mine and get to the end I get my coins and “high score” and when I return to lobby it says my score is 0 and my coin count gets reset. I tried to play again with gems and the only difference was that I lost those gems as score says zero again.

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The damage done by your birds is totally level dependent. In some levels “good” birds do real damage and usually combo with Terence, Bomb and Silver is enough to beat the level. In some levels those three might not be enough and the level has no exit to push the King pig out. These levels tend to be the hardest kind. Some levels are designed so that you need to figure out a way to push the King pig out of the map and in those maps you cannot damage the King pig enough even with full stock of birds.

Of course if you are in 4-5-6 hell getting the right birds to King pig level is totally frustrating and at least in my case totally luck dependent even with help of watching walk through videos. I usually end up paying once maybe 50% of the time in order to not have to  play the same daily challenge over and over again.

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Stop trying to win the Arena in the level you are. Lose enough games in a row to drop to easier level so you start winning again.

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The idea on how to play the Arena (in my opinion) is that every Monday you start your play with losing enough rounds that you drop 1 or 2 league ranks and can continue winning streak very day and on Sunday get some extra points to win the whole round and get some gems.

I wish I did not have to do that since it takes kinda long time to drop the ranks but it is the only way to get the goodies every day without struggling too much with the winning. Even with this strategy there will be a random space level, micro pig going to place you cannot kill it or some other bad luck and you will lose and you have to pay or play again but usually I just win the streak without problems.

Naturally that means that you need to have enough tickets to do this but as for me that has never been problem. I have 500+ at the moment and I’ve been doing that from the beginning.

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The current event apparently uses this method. There also seems to be only limited amount of levels you can play. When the match ended I still had 2 birds left. I hate both changes.

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I’m not sure if it’s showed somewhere but you can count the level they are by opening any regular bird and looking their stats on the left. For example I have Silver at level 170 -> 80 from slingshot, 76 from feathers, 11 from hat and 3 from hatchling. Now my Bubles is on level 160 which means that as the hats do no apply the level 160 is based on x from feathers, 80 from slingshot and 3 from hatchling. So  feathers level is 160-80-3 = 77. So my Bubbles level 160  is based on 80 from slingshot, 77 from feathers and 3 from hatchling.

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They are ment to be used at The Paradise Store. Slingshot icon in the bottom of the main screen.

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Your birds powers are sum of a few things. Hat power, slingshot power, card power and hatchling level. When you open one of your birds where it lets you choose the hat, take a look at the left side of the bird. Those levels are listed there. Take a look at the card level and keep on leveling by getting feathers for that bird.

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Never ever have I played a game that is this bad at giving a feeling that you are getting somewhere when you play more per day or spend years playing it. Everything gets just more difficult and not fun.

I guess I’m suppose to get that “got to play more” feeling when competing against others but why would I care if I’m arena rank 4000 or 6000. Or if I’m 120 or 149 in local group at MEBC or 3000 or 5000 in final ranks every month when I know that there is no real chance of ever catching the paying players or the ones that make the videos to youtube from whom  you’ll find out that you are really just a mediocre player and the reason you are even this high is that you have played from the start.

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Got promoted to master league. And like said in this thread before difficulty sky rocketed. Sad thing is I do not get de-promoted no matter how many I lose so I guess playing Arena is over. No point trying to beat 200-250 higher flock powers.

 

I guess it’s time to stop playing when there is nothing to be gained. Arena is too difficult now. 4-5-6 is unbeatable so I lose two dailys and drop a level, win few get back to 4-5-6 hell and routine  repeats. And because of this I am no longer competitive in MEBC so no point playing that other than just to do it. Does not matter if I’m 120th or 149th in my local group.

And to complete the misery new hat event is up and after two towers and not getting daily’s done my new hat count is 0.

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Today Rovio offers only lava levels that are mostly dependent of they good will to get good score. Oh how I hate them. These levels make their saying spells create too much randomness and are luck dependent seem idiotic.

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To bring the boss down with one bird use the white flower that is under the water near your slingshot.

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Not that I even got to play KPP yesterday but according to videos others have posted you can one shot the last room with Bubbles.

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Lucky me. Third day in a row that I cannot even reach the boss room. Dropping to 4-4-5 did not help one bit with the difficulty.

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Today’s first 5 runs were “nice”. Same map and same opponent every time. Luckily I figured how to solve the first map (which was the only hard one) the second time I played and ended up winning each round with about 40 million points.

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I noticed the same thing. Now I lose on first 2 levels once in a while and when I don’t lose I need to use all my birds. As 4-5-6 hell is as difficult as ever and even getting there is now difficult this makes me question my will to try to compete in MEBC. It does not help that now that they nerfed MECB also so there is  not much of point in it.

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Difficulty seems to vary day by day. Yesterday I could not get more then 2 wins in a row no matter how hard I tried as the game kept repeating few rounds that I could not find solutions to so paying was not an option. Today I got 6 wins in a row at the first try.

At least for me Leonard has been part of the flock ever fucking day. If the opponents are not bots or if it ain’t just random score given by Rovio  I suspect that is part of the reason why as good players do miracles with it and I usually just fail whatever I try to do with it.

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And all the sudden “people” with flock power hundreds below me gather 10+ million points more than me today where as before it was just matter of playing to get the win.

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Started with legendary league 1 star. So far I don’t get this. My flock power is 1143 and my opponents so far have been about half of that so 4 easy wins so far and the prices that you get for winning at least in this level are really good. Round one 3000 feathers, round two 800 pearls, round three 5000 feathers round four legendary chest, round five 10000 rainbow feathers. I have a feeling this is not going to be this easy in the future but for now I’m cashing in all that I can.

Also it seems that either all players in my weekly challenge started exactly the same time as I did or there is something very weird. For every win I lead the challenge but top 10 is 1-3 point behind me all the time. So I get 19 point, they get 18 point and so on round after round.

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Changes are coming…”nice”. As a pessimist my take is that by making it more competitive it will require even more using of  gems to get anywhere. And as of now only thing that is happening is that in Daily quests they are taking my 20 gems away when I cannot get those 25 stars and denying me my 4 apples for today.

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From few pages back: https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/forums/topic/daily-challenge-current-difficulty/page/68/#post-242768

 

As I try to maintain level 3 with the hatchling and try to reach high places with might eagle challenge I do not have the luxury of losing too many days in a row. Now and then the game throws so hard 4-5-6’s in a row that I drop to 4-4-5 but that’s it and its takes me usually 2 days and I’m back in 4-5-6 hell.

I have same problem that even after watching videos and being willing to pay 60 gems to complete the daily it usually takes either 1-2 tries or 10-15 tries depending on level. there is no in between and trying that many times in a day makes me hate the game and myself for doing that.

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You can get one express ticket with your three birds. Level 6 is reachable with those three.

I don’t get your math with the express ticket. I know it’s a bit of a gamble but at least for me the game lets me get to level 30 quite easily with express ticket (and with gems to level 40). Naturally the game does not always let you have the hat but in my experience with 170 gems spent you get at least one most of the time. That one hat is worth 10000 black pearls. Now even with x2 black pearl event you do not get close to that amount of pearls even if you reach really high levels.

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The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJz5-9MXS_w