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My suspicion is that these changes will substantially decrease interest in both arenas and battlegrounds. Why would the designers implement a change that will reduce interest in their game? Very strange.
Particularly confusing are the rating requirements on the honor rewards. Battlegrounds are already an uninteresting grind, and the primary "customers" of battlegrounds are people who are incapable of even breaking 1500 (half of the playerbase would fit into this category in a fair rating system, which seems to be what they're striving for). A more humane solution might be to give discounts for higher rating, rather than completely excluding the people on the bottom.
I should note that I am a gladiator, so this isn't coming from the perspective of someone who's concerned about losing their free epics. It's coming from someone who is concerned about the degeneration of the pvp system. Any competitive gamer can tell you that no game of skill functions at the top without a gigantic, thoroughly mediocre playerbase holding it up at the bottom.
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