Originally Posted by Samurro
With a >1600 rating i would'nt prefer a non arena equipped druid over any other better equipped healer. I think you can hit a 1800+ rating with every of the healers. The perfect healmate comes not to the table until a higher rating then 2000, imo.
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My rating isn't sub 1600. Well, it is, but realistically it's 1800. I finished last season at 1787 with a paladin. The problem being is that I've basically failed in every attempt to get to 1850 with one of my friends. I have absolutely zero interest in playing arena with anyone who is not in my guild. I don't play this game to play with random tards, or search through miles and miles of chaff to find the one diamond in the rough. I play to play with my friends. That being said, it's literally IMPOSSIBLE for a sub 2k team to learn how to become a 2k team now. There are WAY too many rerolls. I've stated this in other threads. 10 games a week, here's how they break down.
3 games = Easy wins, not even a challenge. These are teams rated the same as us, we crush them.
2 games = hard wins, awesome matches. Very evenly matched, great fun.
2 games = Hard loses, awesome matches. See above
3 games = Curbstomped by people with S3 weapons/shoulders. No chance at all, better to afk out immediately as it's a waste of time.
Oddly enough, the 3 curbstompings nearly always net us near 60 points of loss. You can not climb the ladder with these teams in there destroying any progress you make. I've determined that the only way I'm ever going to be able to overcome this low level reroll bullshit is by pure cheese. Fight cheese with cheese, and the druid is the way to do it. That being said, the guy playing the druid doesn't have anywhere near the spatial awareness and arena experience required to compete successfully at high levels. He can get away with that shit at 1550-1600 and learn from it to an extent, whereas it will not be tolerated at higher levels of play. I basically don't give half a shit about what my arena rating is now, nor what you think of my arena rating now. It's unimportant. What is important is determining where the best chance of moving up the ranks is going to lie, and from the responses here it's pretty clear that the druid is basically going to be the partner of choice until they nerf lifebloom. I'm fine with waiting out the gearing up of said druid. I'm in no hurry, and it's quite obvious that with both of us nearing/in our 30's, we're just not going to be able to compete on the same level of play as the 18-22 year old gamers anymore. The reflex/reaction time just isn't up to par anymore. I'm fine with that, but I'd like to move forward eventually, and if Blizzard won't do something about rampant rerollings, then I'm cool with waiting out gearing up a druid if that's the correct path to go to accomplish my end.