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Seems to me that the Arena has diverged pretty far from what I considered its original concept: play matches against other PvPers of the same gear/skill combination (team rating) with rewards for both winning AND losing.
Now, I don't mind lowering the amount of rewards for losing - the best gear should be for the best players, although I would prefer the scrubs to get access to items at a very high point cost. But honestly in any Arena Season, there will be top teams and... teams not at the top, to me it's just like raiding in that the lower-ranked players need someone to "look up to" even if it's just 'hey he's got the shoulders, must be a badass'. If your team never wins, I'm fine with not getting much of the current season's gear and being forced to slowly acquire the previous season's gear; it's still better than dungeon blues!
Unfortunately we haven't seen honest competition since S1. It is NOT FUN to get destroyed by players in high-PR gear who should be many brackets higher, and until this simply does not occur I think overall Arena participation will decline. Already there are plenty of posters theorizing that as less of the "terribads" play, it will be ever harder to get to the ratings which allow purchase of the best gear, and I agree with them.
Basically, if my rating is 1650, I don't want to face anyone with gear that requires 1750 or higher.
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