Question about Arena - I'm confused

[merujo]

if its incorrect, wouldnt every single group of 5 players achieve 2000+ by making 1500 and disband them whenever things got difficult ? According to what u think it's correct a 2100 rated player would be matched against a 1500 player because he has a 1500 team

I don't quite follow your reasoning. Personal rating is always team-bound, it doesn't transfer between teams.

what i thought was that once u disbanded a team, created a new one and entered it, u would still have ur personal rating. So when u leave a team, ur PR is lost. When u join a team u'll start at 1500, is this correct then ?

[Elektric]

You lose your Personal Rating (resets to 1500) when you change teams.

They do this to discourage people with a 2k rating from having to do it all over again. Doesn't really stop the good people when they just want to play.

[zanthor]

My god... I never realized it was so freaking broken...

If PR resets when you leavea a team then it's completely pointless... To properly match based off gear, experience and skill they need to do the opposite...

Reset a TEAMS rating when someone joins the team... leave PR in tact. This way bringing someone on just to modify their PR will stop... if the average PR > TR + 100 then matchmake off the PR, this stops full S3/S4 players from being in the entry level brackets, and encourages activity at higher levels of rating...



/sigh.

[Dominian]

This is one of the good reasons why there should be bigger battlegroups or atleast make people compete in the arena from evey place in europe/us unless there is distance issues with latency or something?

You wouldnt face the same teams twice in a row (most likley) Wich means creativ setups/strategys would work more overall. There is no point in developing a rare setup when you fight the same people 10 times allwoing them to test your weaknesses.

Is it still possible to sell teams or is that not possible with the new rating system? This was one of the most boring things me and my mates encountered when we did arena and tried to get better. Facing 2 equally geared teams and then 1 very good geared team wich seemed incredible well played to be a fresh team.

[Alemi]

Blizzard's solution for people complaining about how rated teams raping them was to make the que times so long for the higher rated teams that people only play them evey 3 matches or so. I've noticed when I play a team after a long que I'll take 9pts. Then it'll be another 8 mins and I'll get 11 pts. Then I'll play the team they've been playing after another 7 mins and I'll get 4 pts. Then I'll make a mistake against a descent team after playing scrubs and lose 25pts. All that work for -1 pts.

High end arena is frustrating. Teams don't requeue. Wins are rarely worth more than 10 pts. ie. I went 15-3 this week for a rating change of 15pts. Tell me thats not a waste of time. 8min queue + 1min buff wait = 9 min game. 18 games X 9 min = 162 mins. Sound like fun?

QFT. At the end of last week (looking at my arena historian), we have a +1, +3, +1, +0, +19, +0, -22 games in one night in the spam of 3 hours. The 19 pt match was against 3 rezzers and a hunter still alive - 40 minutes of trudging through frost aura traps trying to stop rezzes in Bridge Hell Arena - hardly ANY fun.