You still missed the point. Everyone has a reason they play - mythics, arenas, RBGs, or raiding. Sometimes there is a combination, but for me personally I’m only interested in arena with RBGs as a secondary thing I do when I’m bored or burned out.
Carriers in rated PvP gatekeep players who are at a skill or gear cap from progressing. For example, how does a genuinely new and probably low-geared 1400 arena player try to make their way to 1600 when they are constantly facing glads farming them with one-shots for the whole bracket while they do carries? Carries disrupt the natural order of 1) learning from seat time/playing games and 2) getting honor/conquest from arenas in order to get more gear to be able to survive higher damage in higher brackets.
So back onto the topic of gear: do you remember when PvPers were frustrated about having to do mythics for gear or progress in content? This thread supports that exact mentality, and I’m not here for it.
I didn’t miss the point. It seems you are. I’m only making a suggestion. This isn’t an end all be all solution to the problem. It’s simply pointing out that there are other, better routes. That’s it. Don’t try to make more of it than it is.
Apples and oranges. You still have to cap honor. There is no getting around that in the current system. It’s one of the reasons why there has been a huge surge of people doing RBGs, even if they mainly arena. Capping honor takes a lot of time and Blizzard has incentivized RBGs with the weekly bonuses.
Now if you disagree with the idea of RBGs completely and think the whole honor system is dumb, make a thread about it. I have said elsewhere that the cap is to high and the amount of games required to cap is way to high… For now though, we still have to cap and RBGs is the fastest method for that.
“if carries bother you do rbg” Does rbg… watches as for some reason there is 2100+ rated people in a 1500 team just owning flag carriers and whoever they want because with the extra ilvls they get you might as well be wearing paper. Ok… focus those guys and they are taking a lot of risk! Then the healers just heal them… But yeah the whole system is messed up. Did not expect much more with the rushed release and then holiday vacation letting it all fester. Along with the clown show that is awc you would think they could tweak things a bit better. But yeah sadly RBGs are the best way I will agree there… at least you have a chance to get somewhere if you are not maxxed out haha.
Did close to 20 rbgs last week on 3 toons. In none of those games was there anyone over 2100. On two of those toons it was just yolo pugs for caps in that very range.
It’s going to happen from time to time… That’s just the nature of any online game and there is no getting around it… unless you actually want to deny people being able to freely play with whomever.
Carries don’t bother me, and no I will not RBG for gear. It’s a game if I don’t like something I just won’t do it. Same reason I still have no legendary. Not complaining, just personal preference.
A bit off topic but what is the best way to ‘mask’ our burst as MM? When I open as the typical tap -> RA -> explosive -> RF I either get insta cc’d or disarmed.
Also, is RA bugged? A lot of the time when I try using RA I get an error message, which sucks because games are so fast paced.