Originally Posted by TheCutlery
Well, first of all, the druid is still wearing greens. Playing more than 10 games a week won't accomplish anything at this moment in time. We're not moving up because of gear right now, not because of lack of skill.
Second of all, we figure that while we're gearing up, that gives ample time to teach the druid how to do what he needs to do. Starting from ground zero on PvP gear takes a LONG while to get up to speed equipment wise. Plenty of time to get geared up skill wise.
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I hear you on that. Your Druid's stats are very weak on healing, though he actually has more health and resilience than I do. The lack of +heal is a big deal; weaker heals means more time spent stacking hots or CCing defensively instead of going bear to interrupt or CC offensively.
However, I don't think you're doing yourself any credit by blaming all your losses on Gladiator rerolls. Unless you see the Gladiator title in front of their name, they are probably just bad players in good gear. I dislike the welfare epics label, but it is true that a couple seasons of mediocrity will give you 90% of the top gear - and you can buy the rest. There's a reason these teams are at your rating - despite their gear, they are making exploitable mistakes. Maybe it's just me being over-competitive, but during our push to 1850, I never ran into a team that was completely out of our league. We certainly got our ass handed to us more than a few times, but there was always something we could have done better.
And yeah, as another poster said, progress isn't really measured or impeded by your rating. If you're learning and improving, that is progress. The week before last, my team was hovering at 1800 and we played 6 or 7 straight matches against Rogue+caster DPS teams, dropping us below 1700. Each time, however, we learned more about what we were doing wrong. Last week I used Feral Charge much better and my Rogue kept himself un-CCed and we were able to beat the Mage+Rogue teams we ran into at 1800. If you're really getting better, just keep playing and your rating will reflect where you should be. On the other hand, passing up opportunities for long-term improvement just to gain yourself a measly 60 or 70 arena points in the short term is... shortsighted.