Meritocracy
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Anshrr
#1 LFR Feral for his ILVL
- Aug 26, 2005
- 10,227
Arena PvP
Stats are in on the Tournament realm, apparantly almost all the 3v3 teams are either PMR (even more than before), or have a Druid (and almost always a warlock as well then).
Pretty sad that Blizz managed to make 3v3 balance even worse :S
Stats are in on the Tournament realm, apparantly almost all the 3v3 teams are either PMR (even more than before), or have a Druid (and almost always a warlock as well then).
Pretty sad that Blizz managed to make 3v3 balance even worse :S
- Aug 26, 2005
- 15,256
Arena PvP
While Season 3 is still going strong, we wanted to announce ahead of time the rating requirements that will be present for arena items once Season 4 begins. We also wanted to give everyone a heads up to some changes that will be in an upcoming patch, altering how points are gained and players are matched in the arena system. The patch with these changes is scheduled to release before the start of Season 4.
First though, the rating requirement changes:
When Season 4 begins, Season 3 items will be reduced in personal and team arena rating requirement to:
Shoulders: 1950
Weapon: 1800
The new Season 4 items will have the below personal and team arena rating requirements:
Shoulders: 2200
Weapon: 2050
Head: 1700
Chest: 1600
Legs: 1550
Gloves: none
Off-hand: none
In addition, some of the Season 4 quality items that will be purchasable with honor will also carry a personal and team arena rating requirement:
Boots: 1700
Ring: 1650
Bracers: 1575
Belt: none
Necklace: none
Trinket: none
The Season 2 items, which will move to the honor system when Season 4 begins, will continue to have no rating requirement.
The changes to the rating requirements for these items reflect the nature of the items, their power, and the relative difficulty that should be had when attempting to obtain them. These items are comparable to those found in the newest 25 person raid zone, Sunwell Plateau, and should therefore also feel very challenging to obtain.
To help ensure that the challenge in obtaining these items stays true to those achieving these ratings, we'll also be implementing new rules with an upcoming patch to curb practices that undermine the core concepts of the arena system. These rules are as follows:
• If a character’s personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.
This means that a player cannot join a highly rated team and begin earning points based purely on the pre-established rating of the team before they joined it. They'll need to compete, improve, and gain a personal rating worthy of the points they would receive.
• If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.
This means that players cannot join a highly rated team and immediately face highly rated opponents, easily and quickly bringing their personal rating up. Instead they'll need to again compete, improve, and earn their rating.
We're excited to see these changes implemented, which will continue to emphasize the strong competitive nature of the arenas, and the challenge in obtaining the highest end rewards available for PvP.
While Season 3 is still going strong, we wanted to announce ahead of time the rating requirements that will be present for arena items once Season 4 begins. We also wanted to give everyone a heads up to some changes that will be in an upcoming patch, altering how points are gained and players are matched in the arena system. The patch with these changes is scheduled to release before the start of Season 4.
First though, the rating requirement changes:
When Season 4 begins, Season 3 items will be reduced in personal and team arena rating requirement to:
Shoulders: 1950
Weapon: 1800
The new Season 4 items will have the below personal and team arena rating requirements:
Shoulders: 2200
Weapon: 2050
Head: 1700
Chest: 1600
Legs: 1550
Gloves: none
Off-hand: none
In addition, some of the Season 4 quality items that will be purchasable with honor will also carry a personal and team arena rating requirement:
Boots: 1700
Ring: 1650
Bracers: 1575
Belt: none
Necklace: none
Trinket: none
The Season 2 items, which will move to the honor system when Season 4 begins, will continue to have no rating requirement.
The changes to the rating requirements for these items reflect the nature of the items, their power, and the relative difficulty that should be had when attempting to obtain them. These items are comparable to those found in the newest 25 person raid zone, Sunwell Plateau, and should therefore also feel very challenging to obtain.
To help ensure that the challenge in obtaining these items stays true to those achieving these ratings, we'll also be implementing new rules with an upcoming patch to curb practices that undermine the core concepts of the arena system. These rules are as follows:
• If a character’s personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.
This means that a player cannot join a highly rated team and begin earning points based purely on the pre-established rating of the team before they joined it. They'll need to compete, improve, and gain a personal rating worthy of the points they would receive.
• If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.
This means that players cannot join a highly rated team and immediately face highly rated opponents, easily and quickly bringing their personal rating up. Instead they'll need to again compete, improve, and earn their rating.
We're excited to see these changes implemented, which will continue to emphasize the strong competitive nature of the arenas, and the challenge in obtaining the highest end rewards available for PvP.
- Aug 26, 2005
- 10,227
Arena PvP
Especially interested in the anti-exploit measures, wonder if that will be enough to kill all the exploiting going on right now, I don't understand it well enough to judge that atm <_<
Ratings seems pretty fair.
Just sucks to be on Cyclone for it <_<
Especially interested in the anti-exploit measures, wonder if that will be enough to kill all the exploiting going on right now, I don't understand it well enough to judge that atm <_<
Ratings seems pretty fair.
Just sucks to be on Cyclone for it <_<
OP
- Dec 14, 2005
- 2,256
Arena PvP
Still doesn't stop the Gladiator reforms loitering around the 1500 rating bracket stomping noobs for shits and giggles, nor does it fix the Resto-druids-get-2k-rating-in-2v2-just-for-logging-on balance issues.... but I like the scaling targets for gear. Might find that a lot of teams will not be able to spend their points due to having all the non-rating restricted stuff already.
Still doesn't stop the Gladiator reforms loitering around the 1500 rating bracket stomping noobs for shits and giggles, nor does it fix the Resto-druids-get-2k-rating-in-2v2-just-for-logging-on balance issues.... but I like the scaling targets for gear. Might find that a lot of teams will not be able to spend their points due to having all the non-rating restricted stuff already.
Arena PvP
Sadly theres not really anything you can do about the gladiator stomping, if you want to to 1500 arenas in insane gear not a lot anyone can do. and the druid thing is just about the class, rather than a specific arena problem.
Sadly theres not really anything you can do about the gladiator stomping, if you want to to 1500 arenas in insane gear not a lot anyone can do. and the druid thing is just about the class, rather than a specific arena problem.