Return of Mosg

[Mosg2]

I looked again at the PvP blog post and realized that I misread earlier--They're not just lowering the rating requirement for the T2 weapons et al, they're removing them all together. There's no longer really a "goal rating" that you want to hit in order to access anything--It just comes down to whichever team you have more fun playing. I like it.

With that in mind, I'm definitely leaning towards the DKs.

[heyaz]

I looked again at the PvP blog post and realized that I misread earlier--They're not just lowering the rating requirement for the T2 weapons et al, they're removing them all together. There's no longer really a "goal rating" that you want to hit in order to access anything--It just comes down to whichever team you have more fun playing. I like it.

With that in mind, I'm definitely leaning towards the DKs.

Yeah it's nice to know that eventually, you can get the elite gear (they're treating it like another tier of PVE gear, as it were), no matter what rating you have. In which case that coveted 2.2k rating, at least for multiboxers, may no longer dictate what comp you play (i.e. a comp with a much better chance in 5v5 yet overall less utility in pvp than another).

The rating will still play a significant factor in how quickly you acquire the elite gear, and expect the top players to have it in <8 weeks while it takes an eternity for players with no rating >1500 to get it.

The conquest requirement is 27000 to purchase the elite gear. I started getting as much conquest as I could (close to cap) on my DKs since late october or early november and I think I only Just passed 27000 points. My Shaman were in arenas (lol 3v3 elemental) beginning of october, they missed a few weeks here and there, but they also just passed 27k.

If you cap 1800 every week (assuming you can't do RBGs - but you could always spend an entire night queueing around the 900mmr rating and hope for a lucky win), you're looking at 15+ weeks, nearly 4 months before you can upgrade. So like... July.

That's why you'd wanna push rating. That and titles, and cosmetic gear or whatever. May be interesting to see how the new team rating inflation affects point you can acquire... wonder if you can just play a lot, be 2000 ish and have a good cap, while the good teams are closer to 3000 or higher.

I'm still not entirely clear on all the outrage about 2.2k rating if there is going to be a team inflation. If they keep going up, and 2800 or 3000 is the new 2.2k, who the hell cares about 2.2k anymore? If they keep the achieves the same and it works like they say, everyone and their mother will be an arena master.