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aadric · 04/22/08, 2:44 PM

I like the idea of more ratings to enable a sort of progression, but they certainly could have evened out the curve a little more.

At 1500 you get five pieces of loot. Once you get to 1700 you've unlocked 6 more pieces of loot, roughly one piece every 25-50 points. Once you hit 1700 however, its a 100 point jump to get last season's weapon. And then a 150 point jump to get last seasons shoulders. And the steep curve remains up to S4 shoulders. Those will be significant stumbling blocks for teams without ideal composition. They should have used S3 Weapon/Shoulders to even out the curve between 1700 and 1900.

And by using the average personal rating of a team for matching purposes, Blizzard is now pulling more highly rated players into lower tiers, which is my biggest problem with arena. I want to be matched against teams with players at my level, not a team of four 2k players and one 1500 player.

04/22/08, 2:44 PM	#20 (permalink)
aadric Von Kaiser aadric Human Priest <Annarchy> Dark Iron	I like the idea of more ratings to enable a sort of progression, but they certainly could have evened out the curve a little more. At 1500 you get five pieces of loot. Once you get to 1700 you've unlocked 6 more pieces of loot, roughly one piece every 25-50 points. Once you hit 1700 however, its a 100 point jump to get last season's weapon. And then a 150 point jump to get last seasons shoulders. And the steep curve remains up to S4 shoulders. Those will be significant stumbling blocks for teams without ideal composition. They should have used S3 Weapon/Shoulders to even out the curve between 1700 and 1900. And by using the average personal rating of a team for matching purposes, Blizzard is now pulling more highly rated players into lower tiers, which is my biggest problem with arena. I want to be matched against teams with players at my level, not a team of four 2k players and one 1500 player.