A change to the rated gear requirements was implemented today after maintenance to stop personal rating boosting — where a team deliberately tanks the team rating with alts in order to replay with the main character at a lower bracket:

“Please be aware that with this week’s maintenance, purchasing arena season 3 items that have a required arena personal rating will now also require the purchaser’s arena team rating to be at the same point values as well.

Unfortunately, this will not be properly displayed within the game; the in-game display will be fixed soon in an upcoming patch.” -Tyren

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4 Responses to “Season 3 Update: Rating Requirement Fix”

1. nevermore Says:
   December 12th, 2007 at 12:24 am

   A very good fix, but as has already been noted, it will cause inter-team friction between players who win more and lose more for their team.

   Expect to see a lot 3rd, 4th, and 6th wheels be removed from teams entirely, as the teams very best players shoot for 1850/2k.

   Not a bad thing for great players, for the other 98% of us, it will be that much harder to stay on a good team.

2. Ziss Says:
   December 12th, 2007 at 2:06 am

   Hmm… interesting points nevermore. Hope the negative impact won’t be too big.

3. Auvria Says:
   December 12th, 2007 at 2:30 am

   I just feel bad because I’m forcing myself in on our 5v5 instead of our bad combo. I played the priest for one night and we went 13-1, eventually stopping as it got late. I also left out numerous people that I normally get 30%. Its just…ugh. I hate this.

4. Auvria Says:
   December 12th, 2007 at 2:30 am

   *Good combo, sorry.

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