Originally Posted by lairpie
This seems to be a pretty common sentiment, that I think is completely off base. Dungeons and raids do get more difficult as time goes by....
Yes, they should have made it so a 1500 level team could never have gotten a full set of gear in 1 season in the first place. Absolutely. Then in s2 that 1500 team should have had to work all season to go from blues in a few slots they didn't have a s1 piece for to s2 or instead finish their s1 set, and save for s3. That would have been better, and I believe it was a mistake. ...
The problem is, that unlike some video games, blizzard really does try to fix at least some of its mistakes....
If all the people with 1500 teams are going to quit because they've gotten all the things they can get without actually having to figure out why they're at 1500 and try to do better, how can they not see that its a problem that right now a 2k team gets everything it can possibly need in a season and can save up points for the new season well before the season is over. ....
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Sorta butchered your stuff there, tried to grab the relevant statements from each paragraph to make it a little easier on the eyes.
First, dungeons and raids don't get more difficult, more difficult raids and dungeons are added on. Dungeons and raids, nearly without fail, have constantly gotten nerfed. Doing Mag now is orders and orders of magnitude easier than even a couple of patches ago. If scrubs quit this patch, _all_ ratings will become more difficult to reach, not easier.
And I have no problem with Blizzard trying to fix things, but I think that implementing this fix now, instead of waiting till the gear reset of WotLK, is not a good solution when looking at the larger picture. There's actually potential, if enough bad people stop doing arenas, that Season 3 shoulders and weapon will actually be harder to get in Season 4, than they are in Season 3. I think they could actually solve it by releasing a Season 3.5 gear along with Season 4 gear. Basically, just give something for the crappy people to work toward, so that the overall difficulty of play remains about the same.
As for the high-end arena players, I'll agree that the system is a waste for them. But at least the prospect of titles, end of the season rewards, and just plain bragging rights will keep them competing. In other words, even without the gear, there's still a motive for these people to play.