TBC Classic Arena will have retail-style rating locks

[Abombanation-darkspear (Abombanation)]

@Covlol-illidan

Because this is how it was originally in BC, /thread.

The TBC forums disagree with you and there are literally 10 threads saying why change it to be like Retail. Here are just a few.

Arena PVP S1 changes announced

We are full blown TBC retail now. You wanted #somechanges and this is what you get for not staying faithful to the original.

Awful retail changes to tbc arena! why?! who asked for this?

activision you are deliberately sabotaging tbc now, that much is clear. you are all awful people and you should all be fired

Bad arena changes, this promotes goldbuying & boosting

Pay money/gold to 4 pros, get a 5v5 team boosted to 2050/2200 Farm your weekly points from 2s/3s and buy gear based on your 5s rating. 1500 to 1850 was less likely to have this issue. But a 0 to 2050? Yeah, thats alot of RMT/Gold thats going to be traded. I get the scope of increasing the value of competitive pvp gameplay but this causes multiple issues outside of this. One being a reduction of players ranking now that it’s no longer casual gameplay. Additionally, more gold needs to be trade…

So what is the motive? To ruin tbc so retail survives?

I mean they are literally adding a retail style system into the greatest xpac of world of warcraft. Why change something that is already great.