[WoW] LK Arena changes in the making?

[noir]

Persistent personal ratings are the best thing ever to happen to arena.

[Lyonheart]

I like it!

[pinotnoir]

Well, yes for 2v2 and somewhat for 3v3 but in 5v5, you just put 2 gladiators in and 3 noobs and you can still farm normal 1700 teams like no tomorrow. Assuming X number of gladiators at 2100 rating combined with 1500-rated noobs, here's the personal rating average you'd end up with:

1 gladiator = 1620 average ranking for matching purposes.
2 gladiators = 1740 average ranking
3 gladiators = 1860 average ranking

So two gladiators could still PL 3 noobs to farm up everything in hateful and two pieces of Deadly gear. Though once your noobs hit 1700, you'd be matched against "normal" 1860-rated teams.

Granted, for raw starter teams, things will be MUCH better. Once you hit that 1750ish sweet spot, though, you'll start seeing silliness again.

Then again, with this and other changes, things might never be as bad as they are now. The proof will be in the details, which I doubt we'll actually see until the end of october or early november.

If you had a true 1740 team it would be their advantage fighting 2 high rated players with 3 noobs. The noobs would die quick and 2 gladiators wont be able to save them all the time. I would imagine a 1740 team would be pretty solid.

[Elektric]

Apparently Blizzard has been paying attention to how the government works.

This sounds like another bailout.

And of course it doesn't affect me one way or the other cause I simply cant lose :P

[Steph]

I really hope that they go through with it and stop rating resets.
People being able to reset their rating whenever they want screws up the scores and team matchup big time.

[magwo]

This didn't happen for S5 right? Looks like the old system to me.

Also.. having persistent ratings means that there will be little inflation and deflation in the system, which may make it very hard to achieve the absolute rating requirements for the gear.

[Stabface]

Doesn't matter much if they did implement or not, because it's the peeps with top end PvE gear that are wrecking face in Arenas. PvP gear means very little right now. I think S5 is going to be a huge failure if they don't make some changes soon.