Quote Originally Posted by 'pinotnoir',index.php?page=Thread&postID=113325#po st113325
If they want to fix arena and keep a rating system this is what they have to do.

1. Permanent Personal Ratings Only on all brackets.
2. Match teams based on the Avg Personal Rating of the Qued Team.
3. Rank Players instead of teams based on permanent Personal ratings.

This will keep the 2000+ rated player from playing 1500 rated players.
I agree. This would solve things and would not be hard to implement. Pinot is a pretty smart guy, but Blizzard has an army of smart guys working the system too. Why couldn't they figure this out?

And what could be the possible complaints about a system like this?

- "You mean you want me to face players of about my same skill level?" ?(
- "But I want to play with my other friend I'm not on my uberteam with." (There are two other brackets - knock yourself out)
- "But I play this game to show off my uberness and own noobs" (Go hit the BGs then, plenty of noobs there)

The whole chess model this was based on never had teams of unequally skilled players that could band together in odd ways, nor the ability to rating-reset. Pinot's suggestion would put WoW arena much closer to the chess system that has worked so well.