Originally Posted by TheCutlery
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The only big change I've noticed is that there are A LOT less people doing Arena now. If my 2's ranking is any indication, there's about half as many people playing this season as last. Currently ranked 5kish or so at 1606, and that would be closer to a 10-12k rank last season. We had to climb to 1750 or so to get in the neighborhood of 5k ranked. I'm sure some of it is that it's still early in the season, but there are definitely less people playing this time around. That could also be a sign that there are just fewer teams playing as well, since the rating + point selling has greatly diminished, I haven't quite nailed either down yet. It's too early to be running into reroll teams and assuming they're point selling.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with the changes, and they affect me quite a bit since I've never been over 1800.
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I am not one to talk about the big changes this season, as I only resumed my teams this week (darn priest taking a vacation!), but I can see that the competition has improved greatly. This may be because many of the "scrub" teams tried for a week or to but couldn't progress, and thus quit, or it could just be that people "got tired" of arena, or didn't think they could get any upgrades due to ratings, or what have you.
But it seems like the caliber of teams, in all three brackets really, has improved. Lower ratings equates to a better overall skill level. This is all anecdotal, though. Last season my priest and I rocked our 2s straight to 1700 the first week, whereas this week ... well, we didn't. Maybe we also ran up against more druid teams (which were a pain) in 2s, and TONS more melee/cleave teams in 3s and 5s. We actually saw a 5s team with 4 rogues and a resto druid. That was... different.
Back on point though: the number of teams probably has decreased, and as a result the average skill has greatly increased. Isn't this what most people wanted though?