Quote Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38994#pos t38994
Quote Originally Posted by 'Diamndzngunz',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38707# post38707
I'm sorry that is cheap as hell. Why fake your way to getting good items rather then just work hard for them?
While I agree with you, the WoW PvP system is so fucked up, its the only way to do it without wasting your entire life away (like the original PvP system). 2.4 is doing a LOT ot help n00bs get the ball rolling, but its still a huge time commitment.

People will choose the path of least resistance almost always. Its just human nature. :P
QFT. The reason why buying arena points "matters" timewise, is because you're not going to be facing appropriately geared people in your given level-range. Half the people you will meet in prime-time arena pvp even in the 1500's are full season 3 players powerleveling up an arena team for sale. You will not be evenly matched, and you will not receive appropriate points (or point decreases) when fighting teams "of your level". Sure, buying arena teams isn't helping the problem, but it's a bigger issue than any single team/player can fix -- which is why Blizz has their eyes on it for 2.4.

I think the biggest issue in this case is that honest players are being penalized when full s3 arena farmers are recreating low-ranked teams when they shouldn't be in that bracket to begin with. That's the biggest problem - that means that honest players are going to have a much lower rating then they deserve, just because they may have "lost" to a 1500-ranked s3 group which set them back many more points than if they had played the group when it was rated 1800's+. So yes, I believe the whole way until you get your full s3 set you're going to be sitting at rock bottom in the rating system due to that fact alone.

2.4 is helping, but it's not here yet. They're changing the way teams are gaining points and taking personal rating into account. There will also be some baseline pvp gear you can get from rep vendors to minimize the HUGE gear gap for new 70's.

However, until it gets here, the PvP arena system ramp-up is completely fubar'ed, and most will find a far more efficient use of their time farming PvE gold to spend helping them become BASELINE competitive with the current PvP system, flawed as it is. If you don't have the gear to support your skill, you can expect a long, frustrating pvp arena experience wading through the low 1000's bracket.