Priest/Rogue 2v2 Frustrations

[Bolty]

The only way that could be stopped is that one had to be in the team the whole week in order to earn points for that week.

That won't help either. People play their 5v5's for Arena Points, and use 2v2 as a sandbox playzone to get high ranking. The only way to truly fix this is to introduce a 1-week cooldown on team switching. The amount of "dirty pool" that goes on in Arena games is really sad, but if you don't do it, the teams that do will get ahead of you. Once you get to the ultra-ultra-competitive level (top 100), it starts getting really dirty.

GG, as Arnulf says, this happens all the time. Last season Quark and I got smashed repeatedly by a 2400-rating team that had disbanded and recreated just for the "fun" of it and the ability to severely hurt the rankings of other high-end teams. Duh us for re-queueing when they were playing after we hit them the first time, yeah, but it still shouldn't be allowed. Here's a 1750-ish (at the time) rating Rogue/Priest team with *zero* PvP gear (sans trinket) against a Warrior/Druid (of course) group in full PvP gearing. Smashed us flat 3-4 times, costing us 60 rating or so. This team builds up a quick rating, invites a friend of theirs, and maybe gets that friend a Netherdrake/Gladiator rating at the end of the season. Since the team is reformed so late, they can rise fast in few games, allowing their friend to get the necessary participation level to qualify easily.

Then we'd occasionally see these teams where one person is a PvP god and the other one is a PvP newbie or a bad player. The god player is helping their friend build up arena points and then jumping to their "real" team at another point in the week. This is yet another example of how broken the system is. You find all this stuff out by scanning the Armory after games to see the details of who you just played. We'd see it maybe once a week - a team where one member's on a 2000+ 5v5 team, and the other member is on no team at all but the 2v2 and is severely undergeared compared to their partner.

Team switching *needs* a cooldown and I don't know why Blizzard is so hesitant to stop people from gaming the system like they do.

-Bolty