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Guide · V4 · Gen 8
Arena is the best-paying thing a free player can do on V4. A top-50 finish pays 25,000 Frost Stars and 25,000 diamonds every day, for about four minutes of fights. Here's how to get there on a Gen 8 lineup, and stay there.
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Arena rewards · V4
Arena tallies every day. Your rank at 00:00 server time decides the reward, and the fights take about four minutes.
25,000
Frost Stars a day in the top 50
175,000
Frost Stars a week in the top 50
175,000
diamonds a week in the top 50
4 min
of fights a day
| Your daily rank | Frost Stars | Diamonds | Frost Stars a week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 50,000 | 50,000 | 350,000 |
| 6th to 10th | 30,000 | 30,000 | 210,000 |
| 11th to 50thTarget | 25,000 | 25,000 | 175,000 |
| 51st to 100th | 20,000 | 20,000 | 140,000 |
| 101st to 500th | 10,000 | 15,000 | 70,000 |
Ranks 2 to 5 pay at least as much as 6th to 10th. The in-game rewards screen shows the exact amounts and always wins.
Top 50 is the target. It's realistic for a free account that fights every day. The gap between 50th and 1st is 25,000 Frost Stars a day: nice, not life-changing. The gap between 50th and not playing is 175,000 a week.
How Arena works
That's the only way to gain points. A lost challenge costs you no points.
You lose points when someone beats your defence, and gain nothing from a defensive win.
Wins against players on the same or more points pay the most. The ladder looks at points, not power.
Rewards go out at midnight server time, based on where you sit on the ladder at that moment.
You can buy five more with diamonds, and you should (see below).
Each weekly season resets everyone to 1,000 points, and you can't be attacked until you've fought your first match.
Every hero has two skill columns. Arena only uses the left one, the exploration skills. The right one, expedition skills, works on the world map and has no effect here. So "level Gatot's skills" means the three on the left. Don't spend a single exploration manual on a hero who isn't in your five.
Each class deals +10% damage to the next one round the triangle. Ten percent doesn't sound like much, but it decides close fights, and most Arena fights between similar accounts are close. Placement is how you use it.
The Gen 8 lineup
Your top three are Gatot, Sonya and Hendrik: one of each class, and all Gen 8, so nothing older holds them back. Everything scarce (general shards, exclusive gear, mythic sets) goes to those three first. Edith and Bradley get whatever's left.
Enemy side
Front row
Opens with a shield worth up to 380% of his attack, taken off the top before anything touches his health. His aura cuts every enemy hero's attack by up to 5% and gives him that much back for each one. Then a 15% dodge and 20% crit on top. He's the reason your back row survives long enough to matter.
Freezes a target for 1.5 seconds and hits everything around it for up to 300% of her attack. Her second skill halves the attack speed of nearby enemies for three seconds. Against a team that relies on one big hitter, she's the answer.
Stuns targets for 1.5 seconds with a 300% hit, throws a 140% anchor on top, and deals up to 2.5% more damage per defeated enemy, stacking to 15. The longer the fight, the worse he is for the other side.
Placement
With the same heroes and the same power, the player who places better usually wins. Look at the enemy defence before each fight and move your heroes to match.
Gatot and Edith take the hits. Sonya, Hendrik and Bradley fight from the back row.
Your Lancer (Sonya) wants to start across from their Marksman. Your Marksmen want to start across from their Infantry. Keep your Infantry away from their Marksmen where you can.
If they run Gatot, put your Gatot on the other side so the two tanks aren't grinding on each other while the damage dealers run free.
Exploration uses the same skills and the same formation screen. A stage a million power above you is a free lab: swap positions until it clears, then take that lesson into Arena.
Timing · where V4 is different
On the official game the trick was to fight in the last few minutes before reset so nobody could counter-attack. V4 changed the maths: to cut lag at reset, the server now scales rewards and deductions by the time of day.
| Server time (UTC+8) | Same time in UTC | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 to 22:00 | 16:00 to 14:00 | Full rewards, full deductions |
| 22:00 to 23:30 | 14:00 to 15:30 | Normal rewards |
| 23:30 to 00:00 | 15:30 to 16:00 | Reduced rewards |
The server's own example: a 1,300-point player and a 1,400-point player. Points the winner gains / the loser loses.
| Who attacks and wins | Full | Normal | Reduced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower (1,300) beats higher (1,400) | +22 / −11 | +15 / −7 | +7 / −3 |
| Higher (1,400) beats lower (1,300) | +7 / −3 | +4 / −2 | +2 / −1 |
That's 14:00 UTC, and the server recommends it outright. The last-minute trick from the official game now costs you two-thirds of your points.
Beating someone above you pays three times what beating someone below you does, and costs them more.
Every new account starts at VIP 8 with 180,000 diamonds, and Gen 1–8 heroes are open from day one. Setup takes about 10 minutes.
Extra challenges
Five free challenges won't get you into the top 50. The players above you are doing ten.
2,100 diamonds a day
On the official game that's a real sacrifice. On V4 you start with 180,000 diamonds, and a top-50 finish hands you 25,000 diamonds back the same day. The extra fights pay for themselves about twelve times over, plus the hero EXP, gear and manuals every win drops.
−14,700
diamonds spent a week
+175,000
diamonds earned a week in the top 50
Who to challenge
Arena shows you a few opponents and lets you refresh the list. Compare two things for each one: power (can you win?) and points (is the win worth it?).
A clear power lead usually means yes. Still look at their defence and set your placement before you fight.
That's where the big gains are. Same power, more points: always the pick.
Refresh it. A win over a low-point player is worth about +2, which isn't worth a challenge.
Points you take from a teammate only help other alliances move up. Refresh when the list shows your own members.
When a player beat your defence earlier in the week and you're stronger now, go after them. You take your points back and take theirs.
Enter the fight, tap pause, tap retreat. The battle resolves instantly: ten challenges in three minutes when you're short on time.
Upgrades
On a free account, upgrades go to these five heroes, and most of them to the top three.
Level Gatot, Sonya and Hendrik first, then Edith and Bradley. Leave every other hero alone until all five are done.
Left column only, top three first. Manuals are scarce, so don't touch the right column for Arena heroes.
This is where power really moves. Ascend your top three and put every general shard into them. When Gen 9 arrives on State day 22 your top three might change, so don't spread shards across the bench on the off-chance.
Full sets on Gatot, Sonya and Hendrik before anyone else. The 368 gear chests from the gift codes are the start. Upgrade the set steadily: at +20 you unlock mastery forging, which is where essence stones go.
Golden Fang (Gatot), Mangrove Frog (Sonya) and Abyss Diver (Hendrik) are each worth 868,500 power at max, plus 193% lethality and health for their troop type. Gatot's adds a reflect shield in Arena; Sonya's adds 24% attack and a shatter hit when her freeze ends. They're expensive. If you get one, Gatot's changes Arena fights the most.
Arena tokens come from your daily fights. On the official game the advice was simple: save for the mythic hero gear chest and buy nothing else, with epic gear chests and general shards as second choice. V4's shop may stock different items, so open it, find the mythic gear item and check its price before spending a single token elsewhere. Spread tokens across small purchases and you'll never afford the thing that matters.
Daily routine
That's it. Do it every day and the top 50 takes care of itself. See you in the snow. ❄️
Arena pays daily at 00:00 server time: 50,000 Frost Stars and 50,000 diamonds for 1st, 30,000 of each for 6th to 10th, 25,000 of each for 11th to 50th, 20,000 of each for 51st to 100th, and 10,000 Frost Stars plus 15,000 diamonds for 101st to 500th.
Gatot and Edith in the front row, with Sonya, Hendrik and Bradley behind them. Gatot, Sonya and Hendrik are the core: one of each class, so they get your general shards, mythic gear and exclusive weapons first.
Before 22:00 server time (UTC+8), which is 14:00 UTC. After that V4 scales rewards down, and a win in the last 30 minutes before reset pays about a third of the full amount.
Yes. The five extra challenges cost 2,100 diamonds a day, and a top-50 finish pays 25,000 diamonds back the same day. Over a week that's 14,700 diamonds spent against 175,000 earned.
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