I haven’t really played that much arena this season. I got started really late, like in the past 2-3 weeks, so my cr/gear is low. My observations so far are:
Every third match I’ve played this season has at least one guy in full 220’s carrying. Maybe like 5/6th of the time they destroy our team.
The best play session I’ve had so far, the one which saw the largest increase to 3v3 cr, involved a friend of my ilvl 170 warlock partner carrying us. The boomkin had 220s in every slot and just melted people. TBH I feel like the value of the carry was mostly in the fact that it’s neutralizing the carries that you run into as you’re running through matches.
The details of that last bit are, if I had a 50/50 chance of winning the clean matches and a 1/6 chance of winning the carried matches then I’d expect to win 1.166… many games out of 3. With a carry I’d have 3 50/50 games. So I would expect to win 1.5 many matches out of 3. In the second case my cr stays static, in the first it declines.
There are other things I can do OFC to get my rating up, like picking better partners/comps and using voice chat, but really if this is going to be a good use of my time or not depends on how cheap/easy it is to just pay for a carry.
Rival gear will in fact not get you 40khp/30% versa as that gear is 220 and the average gear is 226, and it is not easy getting 1800 especially in lfg when all you will fight are players with max gear carrying other players and then your teammate just insta leaves because you lose the first game.
The fact that you believe this omegalul I would wipe the floor with you before you even began to formulate an inkling of what was actually going on inside of the arena stop