Go for it! If you want to ease into it, rank up mid week. Arena gets easier the later in the week you are because as you said, you get matched with compatible mechs, and more mechs make it through the threshold as the see progresses. The first few days will is nothing but beats, then mid tier mechs, then the mechs who scraped by from pure luck. By the way, good idea about your modules. I have one mech dedicated to heat and two generalists. Playing the odds is more realistic than making a perfectly rounded mech.

I only use Squinch because i didn't have too much extra weight for a drone, and Squinch is pretty light with that 22kg. I have Backstabbing protector and Heatpoint, but i did not use them because of weight problem. Otherwise i'm praying to get the amazing Swoop. I thought about replacing Corrupt light with Flaminator (i don't have Dawnblaze), but my only concern was when i fight against energy mechs it's gonna hurt me when i use it, since it uses good amount of energy. I'm still gonna swap it out soon tho. I dunno about which module do i myth first. I think my biggest problem (not counting that having no pys shield) is the small heat capacity/energy regen.

your mech is very decent and looks fun, except the drone part, farm for fortune boxes and try getting drones such as Nemo, Backstabbing Protector or Firefly, and transform your legendary items to mythical in the process. Hammer won't serve many purpose but it seems like you want to make good use of Red Rain so you can keep it, i would replace Corrupt Light with Dawnblaze or Flaminator, when transforming legendary items be sure to priorotize mods or Abomination, it is a really nice side weapon

I was already planning on using the Frantic Lightning and the Banshee for trash, I only keep the Lazy Falcon because it's a premium item, the Cracked Plasma Cannon is just because I don't have a recoiler. And the Heat Engine because I don't receive any module that is considered good, I only receive Heat Engines and Cooling Mass Boosters, I never received an energy module that is good.

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I stay in arena rank 17-16, because i don't think my mech is ready for higher ranks at the moment. I could go to 15 if i want to, but i feel like i'm gonna regret it. I figured the rank rewards mark a checkpoint (example if you once reach rank 20 and then even if you lose every match you can't go beyond that rank no matter what anymore), so after i step into rank 15 there is no going back. I have seen mechs much 'weaker' than mine go r15 and forward with no problem, so that made me realise that the game puts your opponents based on your mech, instead of the rank. I always fight against mechs i have no chance to win against (mostly physic), or ones i can easily defeat (mostly energy), plus the middle section which i can/can't defeat. That made me guess that if i go to r15 it'll probably be the same as now, just with more mechs i got no chance against and less ones i can defeat. The important thing is just to be able to win the 5 daily matches. Am i going to be fine with this mech? The reason i don't use a pys shield instead of the exp one is because when i meet a pys mech, 90% of the time they'll have so high dmg weapons that the shield will be worth nothing and i would die anyway. The exp one actually helps beat heat mechs i have a chance against.

Frantic lightning Banshee Naga Heat engine Cracked plasma cannon First 3 items are overall trash because they dont work properly/have better replacements Heat engine isnt good because we have "Quad Core Booster" Cracked plasma cannon deals nice dmg but it sucks because it doesn't give that much heat soo just use pyhsical version Also lazy falcon sucks man wth is wrong with you

From the legys I have, Wich one should I sac? Ps: I'm not planning to use Lazy Falcon.