Infraction for Omgwtfhealme: Mystery Idiot

Kaubel · 08/10/07, 5:29 PM

Post: Arena For Profit and Power leveling, a growing trend?
User: Omgwtfhealme
Infraction: Mystery Idiot
Points: 9

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Laters, champ.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Aphyrax

I would bet you gold that they can and will. But you are hiding behind an alt.

Yes it does affect the top teams. Spray and Pray leveled many teams to the front page of the ladder, taking away points from many top teams in the process. So no, you cannot out-rate the smurfs. A #1 skilled gib team with enough time can get a new team to the front page of the ladder in a less competitive BG every week easily.

Fact is, this problem affects the top teams much more than the average teams. Selective memory is always a factor but mathematically a 1500 rated team will not constantly run into 2000+es on a smurf team. However, the top of the ladder is highly susceptible to a freeze where queueing is a guaranteed rating loss because all the other teams are smurfs that cost you 30 points for a loss and get you 2 for a win, while being as skilled as you are.

By going 50-0 on a smurf you lose the 2500 of your main team. Unlike in WC3 you can't have both in WoW. 2500 is more prestige than 50-0. Not to mention more arena points. Therefore when forced to chose most will stick with the high rating. Tillerman did not have to give up his main account when leveling Tillerpeon (the most famous example of smurfing I can think of).

Smurfing has always been a problem, I agree. This does not change the fact that the only reason why this happens in the first place is because there will always be a disparity between the skilled and the less skilled. It does make life somewhat less enjoyable to get steamrolled by people that obviously out gear you and are more skilled, but the same can be said for a pair of friends that can't rise past a 1400 rating. They get steamrolled by pretty much anybody playing that given day.

My point is that why introduce a system that will undoubtedly place restrictions on a universal scale when the problem only exists with like, the top 5% of each battlegroup that is even capable of doing these smurfing? And while we're at it, why not complain about smurfing in the lower brackets, because it happens, just nobody cares because a few people aren't getting ridiculously rich from doing it.