I completely agree that solo queue options are a fantastic addition to the game for players that lack teammates or play casually and want to login immediately and queue up.
However, solo queue is hardly an individual test of skill. It’s a dog pile to see who parses the best DPS and trades efficiently. It effectively removes any team element required for success in normal brackets. Team based arena offers the best rewards because it showcases not only individual skill but also team synergy. RSS should never offer Gladiator Mounts or the premier R1 title. It’s the Diet Coke version of arena. And that’s coming from someone that enjoys RSS casually.
Furthermore, there’s already people manipulating the queues and throwing matches for payment in the shuffle bracket. While it may not suffer the same malicious issues as the normal arena bracket, it nonetheless has negative behavior that undermines spirit of competition. If the normal arena brackets were removed, that behavior would just become more prevalent.
If you want to achieve a good “net positive” for the arena community, then the best option is to improve the LFG system, add more rewards from the bottom up and to offer seasonal reward tracks for people that stick to 1-2 toons rather than FOTM rerolling during every patch.
Bruh I pushed in the pandemic when we weren’t working and no way in the world that a healer would be a paid carry. I was top 3 hpally on the latter all shadowlands. I was also on latter for rdruid and two mws. I even got on with my undergeared rogue. I was comfy latter on both mws all legion and didn’t play much BFA.
Literally nothing about your achievement history matches up with this, unless you’re saying it was on a different account or something?
I mean I don’t care, there’s Boomy’s who got legit Hero S1 SL who couldn’t hit 1500 any season after, just looking for clarification since you said you were a top 3 healer for an entire expansion.
You know, I was about to post the definition of latter in this thread. But then I remembered it’s not my job to fix the failing American Education System.
