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I like the arena mechanic changes. Basically, they heavily discourage team swapping without enforcing any kind of artificial cap by forcing you to actually re-level a team every time the team changes. This is annoying for those who legitimately play on multiple teams in the same bracket, but it also stops the majority of point selling.
Personal rating selling is something that is much harder to stop, as you actually have to lose to the person who's getting leveled. If that happens, he probably deserves the points. The only reasonable solution to this is to make personal rating determine everything. However, this can be solved by simply purposely tanking your personal in whatever bracket you sell in, even in absence of the easy teamquitting reset.
As to the ratings, as a higher-rated player, it doesn't matter that much to me except that I'll feel slightly more awesome. We will have to see how much this actually decreases the amount of participation in arena, most of what I'm hearing seems chicken little-esque to me.
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