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Originally Posted by Calantus
He's complaining about having to play a different system in order to qualify for items paid for by points earned in another. There ARE people who never want to arena, just like there are people who don't like BGs and people who don't want to raid. If Blizzard wants to make BG rewards harder to get they should make the, harder to get within the BG system, not rachet in a requirement from a seperate system.
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Um, if you look at season 3 and 4, you will see a lot of people (myself include) have to do BG to get our weapons / shoulders / a lot of pieces in s4 (except people who bought their ratings, I hope blizzard would do something to prevent this). My friend once asked me why did I have to play in BG while I don't like it, I told him if Blizzard allows me to buy BG rewards with arena points I would never step in a BG again unless with friends premade and I'm sure many people would have the same thought with me. Why don't people complain when arena players had to do BG to success in arena for 3 seasons already and now they complain when they have to do arena to get BG rewards? It's not like 1700 rating is a hard-to-get margin.
Items should reflect the effort you put in to get it. At current state, they failed to do so as everyone, sooner or later, can get all of BG rewards. If Blizzard wants to make BG rewards harder to get while not using another system, the only way I can think of is to bring back ranking system, which more people will cry about. That's why I said in my opinion, this is the best thing Blizzard could do.
And for people who is worrying about the gear to start with, I think we can be sure that there are always s2 and season 3 gears - which won't be much weaker (speaks from experience of a priest, although I know melee s3 gears got a big buff with ArP).
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Originally Posted by sadris
In general I suspect these changes will greatly increase the price of buying points as now sellers are forced to get the buyer's account info, setup a UI, change buttons, etc. If Blizzard really wants to stop the practice of selling points then they just need to make it against the TOS.
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Don't you think Blizzard already did what in bold? I meant, sharing account is technically against the TOS =)
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Originally Posted by grunge
Reaching 2.2k at the moment isn't that hard, the ratings have inflated enough and top teams are at 2.4-2.5k.
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Are you sure? =P While I like the changes, I wouldn't say reaching 2k2 at the moment is easy. At the moment, number of teams with 2k2 ratings is actually much smaller than number of gladiator teams.