PVP boosting in Arenas is ruining the game.
Going up against 226+ ilvl players at 1600 is really just disheartening and really removes any integrity from rating or gear. It’s impossible to outplay gear when they have 6/7k more health and twice the damage almost.
Please address gold carries. It adds absolutely nothing to the game. Can we get a dev reply or something about this issue and if something is being done?
The entire point of arenas was to show how good you were as a team against other teams. Not be put up against R1 Gladiators in the 1600 bracket who just double your damage. All they have to do is just sit on the DPS, they dont even need to CC, they just out pressure you no matter what you do.
Either ban gold carries or make 2v2 MMR tied to 3v3 MMR so they either fight really high teams or the person doing the carry loses MMR in 3v3.
Today played 4 games from 1708 and ended at 1720 cr. Won 2 games and lost 2 games to 2 different gladiators boosting someone, all they did was sit on my warrior until he died.
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No its not.
I can tell you with 100%, PVP boosts are not the reason youre stuck at 1700.
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At no point did I say I was stuck at 1700. In fact, i do have the Rival title from my Paladin and the warrior is my alt.
I commented on the fact that arena boosting is absolutely RAMPANT and ALL OVER the 1400-1800 bracket. But you somehow thought I was bad or something for making a post about something that i consider to be ruining the integrity of Arenas.
Edit: Also, not everyone is blessed to have friends who are good at arenas so I can sit here and grind all day. Some people, like me, play in LFG without voice with random players who leave after 2 games. So please, spare me your comments.
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If 50% of my games are against boosters then, yes they are keeping me from 1800.
It’s not fun or fair to fight against 226+233 wep as 213 ilvl.
The solution to it is not to farm RBGs like everyone else. Everyone else turned to RBGs because 2v2 was unfair and unbalanced because blizzard is happy with people buying tokens.
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There is no way 50% are boosters.
If youre going off gear youre mistaken. Everyones 2100 in rbgs and playing 1700 in arena.
Max gear doesnt mean its a boost or a r1/glad player
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I played 40 games last night at 2060 and 40% of all games had at least one glad out gearing both my teammate and myself. We won about 50% but it’s just disgusting when a ww or war has a 233 wep eating through all of my priests mana and 2-3 d cds due to gear gap
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This is false I see drainer and a monk glad boosting people on 3s literally every morning. And yes 50% of the games I played last night were vs glads at 2050
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Glads at 2k sounds right. 2s are super dead this season. Thats not a boost, thats actually their 2s rating.
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Do you have anything to back this up? I’m not going to believe this just because someone says it’s true, even if that person is a high rated player.
Give me some definitive evidence that gear doesn’t matter in 2s. This test could be something as simple as getting 2 glad players, who have played together as a team and climbed as high as they can in 2s, remove their gear and equip 200ilvl gear.
I’ll believe your claim if you can play 50 games or so and maintain your current rating.
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My third warrior is 200ilv at 2277cr with low games playing with lfg healers.
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That proves you’re a great warrior, it says nothing about the difference that gear can make.
You can get 2100 with low gear if youre not brain damaged. Its then just farming honor and conquest.
I said this before, most people get 2100 in rbgs for the gear before playing arenas
You’re missing the point. I want proof that gear doesn’t matter in 2s, not a work around to get the gear. That only proves that gear actually DOES matter.
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Obvi gear matters in an mmo??? When did i say it didnt. Its possible to get decent rating with 0 gear or just be smart about it. If you really think gear is the reason youre stuck at 1700(its not) then play other parts of the game where gear is easier. Like rbgs…
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“It’S aN MmO sToP cOmPlAiNiNg aBouT GeAr aNd fiGhTinG 240o pLaYerS aT 14o0”
“JuSt BecOmE a TouRneY LevEl PlaYeR tO bEaT gLadS aT 1500 mMr oN yoUr FiRsT sEaSon”
Only reason he wants gear to matter is because he makes his living selling carries.
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Thanks for clearing that up. Just to be clear, I’m not trying to argue and I think you’re a great player.
I just think some of the super high xp players lose perspective on what it’s like to play against far superior opponents, because there’s not really anyone you play against that IS far superior. The skill gap between a glad player and someone who’s best xp is 2k, is absolutely massive.
Imagine if every other game you were going against an awc champ who was also better geared. That would be pretty close to what a 2k xp player faces against a glad xp one.
Now I need to determine how much rating can be attributed to gear. This could be somewhat measured by doing the little experiment I suggested above.
This is the most out of touch post I’ve seen in awhile. Just because you’re easily able to climb to high ratings doesn’t mean anyone who can’t push 2.1 is “brain damaged”. You and I both know the vast majority of players are below 2.1 for whatever reason.
Stop trying to flex all the time and empathize with the rest of the PvP community perhaps? Because I promise, no one cares how good you are if you act like a 
head
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pretty much all rank 1’s and most streamers are boosting right now… gear should be scaled correctly at different ratings for example players at 1400 in no way shape or form should be playing against 220+ilvl players… it is majorly unfair since gear is such a important factor. Having the massive vers and HP increase is such a advantage it would be almost impossible to lose. Blizzard needs to address this quickly.
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there arent as many boosters as people think. yes there are some but people act like its every other game and its not
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