The Arena Challenge Rewards
Rank 1 and Rank 2 rewards
Rank 3 and Rank 4-5 rewards
Rank 6-10 and Rank 11-20 rewards
Rank 21-50 and Rank 51-100 rewards
The Arena Challenge is one of the more decent challenges. It isn't too hard to complete the quests if you have been saving your challenge tickets and you should be able to rank pretty decently.
When Does the Arena Challenge Start?
The Arena Challenge starts right after the Might Challenge and lasts for three days. It is always paired up with the Heir Challenge.
Preparing for the Arena Challenge
This is one of the easier challenges to get ready for because all it requires it saving your challenge tickets. You can get challenge tickets from a few events and all you need to do is hold on to them. You already get five free challenges in the arena every day, so there really isn't a reason to use your challenge tickets anywhere else.
During the Arena Challenge
For this event it would be best to just do your free Arena fights during the first two days and then gauge your position on the third day. If it seems your challenge tickets can get you into a new bracket and you think you can hold that spot, go for it.
However, let's say you are stuck in a lower bracket and even using all your challenge tickets wouldn't move your up a bracket. In that case, it would be better to just use enough tickets to complete the limited time quests and get the final rewards. You can save those extra challenge tickets for next time and try to score higher.
There is really no benefit to blowing all of your tickets on the first day. This game is all about being smart with what you have and using things at the right time.
Spending Gems
First, let me say I highly discourage spending gems outside of the Intimacy Challenge until you've at least got yourself a companion that can give level 22 traits...
But, if you must, you must.
As usual, ignore the extremely bloated estimation of value and here are my thoughts on each pack:
This pack is giving you 10 challenge tickets for 599 gems. That is around 59 gems per challenge and really, that's not awful.
The other stuff doesn't matter for this event.
Those stamina potions are nice to have, but I wouldn't even say they add value to this pack.
I also don't place much value on five hours of bonus gold.
This packs value is in challenge tickets only.
This pack gives you 20 challenge tickets for 1399 gems.
Buying two of the first pack would give you the same amount of challenges for 1198 gems, resulting in a 201 gem overprice.
While I do place some value on those Senate Orders, you can get a better deal.
This pack gives you 30 challenge tickets for 1999 gems.
Three of the 599 packs would cost 1797 gems.
The difference between 1999 and 1797 is 202 gems
That is one gem more than the previous pack, but you if you look carefully at the rewards you are only getting 2 additional Senate Orders (12 total) and you are actually getting less gold.
I usually hate the most expensive packs, but this surprisingly is the most valuable one here.
In this pack you are getting 50 challenge tickets for 2999 gems.
Five of the 599 packs would cost 2995 gems.
That means for 4 additional gems you are getting:
20 senate orders
2 3-star random champions
8 hours of bonus
15 stamina potions
So, if you are going to spend gems, the 599 pack or the 2999 pack are the way to go... but I still don't think you should :)