Good Form / Bad Form

[A_JEDI]

I just had a really successful run with my current Arena Deck. Peaked at #2 in Silver.  It's starting to age out.  I am not likely to get many more wins and thought about clearing my deck of everything but rare's and shard's, so people have a chance to win them.

Is this a breach of some kind of 'Elements etiquette'?

[dragonsdemesne]

People used to do this all the time in the old top 50 (which existed before the arena was created), so it's hardly unprecedented.  Some people still do this in their arena decks; they just don't last very long, anymore, since a few losses and they drop below the top 500.

If you feel guilty about giving away 'free' rares, you could fill the deck with rares and shards, but also use some quantum pillars or something so that the player still has to do a little bit of work to get them.  Depending on how many shards/rares you own, you could even make decks like 6x pharaoh 6x shard of readiness, or 6x miracle 6x morning glory 6x flying weapon, or whatever, that are still a proper deck, yet give a good chance at rares if they are beaten.

[Higurashi]

Zanz made Arena partially because T50 had too many farms. He didn't want people to get rares -that- easily. As such it could be argued farms as a concept are against what the developer wants, but this isn't necessarily true. One farm in Arena on its last days is hard to find and won't give out many free rares at all. PvP farms, however, are definitely seen as bad form. The same could be said for putting up farms every day in Arena.