07-25-2007, 06:06 PM
Quote:#4 I would argue is legit - there should be a way for people to help their friends catch up. It's not like such a team is really going to crack the top teams, not unless they level off for a while and gear up.No, no, they are though. Consider this scenario.
2 very highly rated players want to help a guildie get lots of arena points/Gladiator rank/whatever. They drop their team (or worse yet, sell it), starting over, inviting Newbie to their new team. Back to 1500 rating.
They then play 50 games with this total PvP newbie and just kinda screw around. Win a little, lose some, not really trying, just getting games in. Let's say for the sake of argument that they gain about 200 points, which isn't unreasonable when one of the two players is a God compared to your standard 1500-rating team.
Now the uber player brings in the other uber player while the Newbie sits. They rocket up the rankings and in the next 40 games get up to 2300 ranking. So, 90 games have been played and Newbie's participated in 50 of them.
From that point on, every week, they play 10 games. Newbie plays in three of them to satisfy the 30% requirement. The uber players make up any lost points in the remaining seven games and just hover at a high ranking.
After a few weeks of this, the season ends. Newbie got WAY more Arena points than he deserved, and sports a title he doesn't deserve. "So what," you may ask. This is no different from players in AQ40 escorting someone in all blues through BWL and gearing them up at lightning speed, even if that player is awful. Right?
Wrong. Newbie's rise, points, and title came at the expense of other players. That's what separates Arena rewards from PvE rewards. For him to rise, others got wafflestomped and pushed down. And the players who got wafflestomped could be much better players than Newbie. That's why the system has to fight things like this from happening. Every team they beat on their way back up to 2300 took a loss for Newbie, losing Arena points and standing, while Newbie gets the Arena points undeserved.
-Bolty
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