Quote Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=113338#po st113338
My point stands. (I don't PvP because I suck at it. I'm ok with that. I'll go farm gear in heroics and have fun my own way)

You are not winning and you are QQ'ing about it. From the "tone" of your posts, you seem to feel that everyone should "win" and get gear or rating or status or something. The spirit of arenas is to compete against your peers and set yourself apart from them by.. well... beating the piss out of them.

Yes, when you first ding 70 and jump into arenas, you're going to be OWNED. BADLY. Once you grind out a set of PVP gear, now you've got a chance at competing. (Either farming honor in BGs or farming Arena points or whatever).

1) You win and move up.
2) You lose and go down.

There is no other outcome. If there was, what would be the point?
Point is I'm gonna be a new 70 entering the arena. s4 geared Gladiators are not my peers. I should be, at the starter bracket facing an equal level of suck to myself.
I think you're completely missing the point. There is no true competition when Gladiator rated/S4 geared players are fighting a brand new ungeared 70 for either side.

The issue really is the way the arena is set up and I think it's deliberate on Blizzard's part. The fixes are easy, but they refuse to implement them. They NEED that certain segment to get their easy wins because they know the majority will keep plugging away at 2-8 wins/week in hopes of SOMEDAY having enough gear to compete. Meanwhile, that segment that exploits to make gold by powerleveling ratings is there every week, that segment that buys that powerlevel is there every week. The ones that really don't like it.....just don't play arena anymore. I'm sure Blizzard has lost very few subscriptions as a result of the arena garbage.

But don't try to sell me a bucket of shit and claim arena is true competition.