[rwwin]

You don’t even need to finish the un-ranked battle. I’ve found that exiting the un-ranked battle at any time still recycles your arena opponent. Helps to speed up the grind.

As to overpowered opponents, I think it has something to do with your position on the leader board. This week I had to skip the first day and a half of the arena. When I started up I was dead last. I started grinding and found I was almost always matched up with easier dummy accounts (Unnamed player, all birds at the same mastery and all mastery bars empty) that were 1 or 2 mastery levels below me.

I ground on that for two days and finally moved up to the two star rank at 7th place and the appearance of the dummy accounts started to disappear. They still show up, but only after recycling the arena opponent 20+ times after entering the arena. I went from grinding 1,000 points per hour to maybe 500 if I’m lucky. So after flying up the board from last to 7th in a couple of days, it took the entire rest of the week to grind from 7th to 5th. To top that off the top three spots are cheaters all with 150K points plus.