Here is an idea.. If they just made personal ratings stick and not reset there may be a way to fix everything.

So if I had a 2v2 and my partner and I had a 2000 personal rating it would be perma rating. What they can do is make the team rating the avg of all players personal rating. If you win games your rating goes up thus making your team rating rise. If you leave a team and join a new one you keep your rating. The new team will be the avg personal rating of its members.

This would stop several side effects of the current rating system.

First, it would keep highly rated players playing matches with equal rated players. No more low level players going up against full s3 geared players farming gold. Second, it would keep 2000+ teams from selling and restarting new teams to farm gold. Third, it would keep people from buying arena gear who did not work to earn it. I think buying a 2000+ team is cheating the system. There are many arguments to this and some I agree with. For example, you have to allow teams to add players. With personal ratings that reset to 1500 this causes the problem.

Blizzard has to do something to the people exploiting the system. I am sure their response is not 100% accurate. Some people are getting nailed who should not be. Hopefully those people can get things worked out. At this point of my wow playing I have little interest in arena. Its just a circle jerk of the same a holes. At least they put the past season on honor vendors. It gives people a fighting chance to compete in arena. As you all know the guys who are in full S3 gear will then use that Uber gear to be right back into full S4 gear. Skill helps but the majority of why the same people get geared up again is due to their items. New players fighting their way in the 1400-1800 bracket have a huge up hill fight in order to equal the gear of players who have started S1. I speak from experience when, months ago, my full S1 lock was trying to play games with a new team and losing to full S3 guys. It really sucks losing 16 points a game to some douche bags in full S3 and weapons who are farming gold.

If they made the change above that should solve some problems. I am not sure exactly what the new change has done because my desire to arena is very low. PVE is the only thing keeping me playing right now. I may farm the S2 gear just to do more dps in PVE. Battlegrounds are so boring to me. Playing the same boring battlegrounds over and over that you have played for a few years is not fun. If it was not for multiboxing pve I would quit WoW.