PvP
  • Arenas
    • If a characters personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.
    • If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the teams rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.
The 150 points difference from the Personal Rating (PR) and Team Rating (TR) would seem to curb point selling in this patch 2.4.2.

Scenario 1:

Suppose a Player_A & Player_B buys a Team_Uber with 2000 TR, Both Player_A and Player_B have 1500 PR.
They run 10 games, losing 10 games match versus 2000 rated teams at a loss of 16 points a game.
At the end of the week, Team_Uber is 1840 TR, but Player_A and Player_B's PR dropped down say 1 point each game to 1484.
According the patch 2.4.2, Plater_A and Player_B's 1500 PR is more than 150 points below 2000 TR; therefore they will only earn points based on 1484 rating?

Scenario 2:

Suppose Player_A is a new 70 with no pvp gear, joins with Player_X and Player_Y both with full S3 gear at 2000 PR. Their Team_Carry is 1500 TR.
They queue, with the average rating of (5500/3) = 1833. This is what's referred to as 2.5 versus 3 arena match.
Team_Carry can still win versus 1833 rated teams (no S3 weapons/shoulders)--those struggling to get 1850; those non-cookie cutter teams?

Team_Carry will gain more than 15 points per game since they start at 1500 and fighting 1830 teams. I think the point gain is around 27 based on the chess tournament formula.
And Player_A will probably as much PR also.

So let's say an average of 20 points gain per game. After 10 games, Team_Carry is at 1700 with Player_A at 1700 PR also?
With the PR rating required to get S4 arena gear, and S4 honor gear, carrying someone to 1700 PR seems quite profitable for 2 players.

With the amount of gold one gets doing 25 daily quest. But let say one does the Island, and a few SSO pack quests. Thats about 200 gold a day from daily quests, do it 5x a week and the player has 1000g to offer to be carried weekly for arena points.