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Jehla · 04/24/08, 3:19 PM

I fail to see how the rating requirements will make Arena better for you if your not realistically going to archive 1700 rating.

I see what your saying about the gear being of Sunwell quality so should only be achievable by the best. How ever I don't agree with it.

I assume you feel this way because of the way many PvP items are also decent in Raiding compared to the last tier (S3 comparable to T5 etc) and in many ways currently easier to collect. In which case I whole heartedly agree with you, but unless Blizzard put more useless PvE stats on the amour to degrade its use in PvE (hp5 anyone?) its going to be a problem..

By introducing the ratings requirements though sub 1700ers are going to run out of things to buy in arena very quickly, leading to less drive to play arena and teams dropping out. (currently we have 5 items to collect plus saving for the next season)

More worryingly though it implements a big gear gap between those over 1700 and those below. This may not be too bad on busy arena nights, but what happens when there are only a few teams in the que... Also you will still meet these players in BGs and would PvP with gear you simply can not archive.

04/24/08, 3:19 PM	#19 (permalink)
Jehla Glass Joe Envay Draenei Shaman <Easy> Lightbringer (EU)	I fail to see how the rating requirements will make Arena better for you if your not realistically going to archive 1700 rating. I see what your saying about the gear being of Sunwell quality so should only be achievable by the best. How ever I don't agree with it. I assume you feel this way because of the way many PvP items are also decent in Raiding compared to the last tier (S3 comparable to T5 etc) and in many ways currently easier to collect. In which case I whole heartedly agree with you, but unless Blizzard put more useless PvE stats on the amour to degrade its use in PvE (hp5 anyone?) its going to be a problem.. By introducing the ratings requirements though sub 1700ers are going to run out of things to buy in arena very quickly, leading to less drive to play arena and teams dropping out. (currently we have 5 items to collect plus saving for the next season) More worryingly though it implements a big gear gap between those over 1700 and those below. This may not be too bad on busy arena nights, but what happens when there are only a few teams in the que... Also you will still meet these players in BGs and would PvP with gear you simply can not archive.