07-26-2007, 06:31 AM
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I don't know that a bit of randomness invalidates the whole system. Over the course of hundreds of game (more then you can probably play in chess), it evens out. Primary evidence of that is that team Pandemic pretty much wins everything. The disparities between classes don't inherently make it a bad system, the problem is that some classes are good in all or almost all situations, and some are bad nearly all the time. If it really was a giant game of rock paper scissors, I think most reasonable people would be ok with that.
There is not a huge gap between S1 and S2. Also, S3 is probably a long long way off (it will most likely coincide with the release of another top level dungeon... i.e. not on the radar and possibly not before the next xpac). Nothing is terrible about spending a couple of months at 1800-1900 while you grind up some more gear. Even at a middling rate, its not hard to catch up, especially if you hit the BG's pretty solidly. My warrior didn't play in season 1, and will have 4xS2 in 5-6 weeks - I find that fair. Especially since I know I'm not a fantastic warrior right now. Remember, the only way to really practice arena's is to play in them, the chance that a really good player will have no gladiator gear is almost zero.
Your comparison to Roman gladiators is a bit odd. What do you mean that rewards were given outside the arena and what does this have to do with Warcraft. I'm not sure exactly what you expect other then it sounds vaguely like arena wars.