Title says it all. First week of S4 is here and it didn’t seem possible that it would be worse than S3 but, here we are? Not a new player, have had minimal experience level at the 1800+ range of anything and yet I am somehow hitting 1900MMR after winning 1 or 2 arenas? I hit 1700 in 2’s and just under 1700 in RBG last season. Help me understand why it is such an uphill battle even doing 2’s at this point. I’d love to play this game, it just seems Blizz has really thrown pvp to the way side at this point. Any input or recommendations welcome.
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high mmr is good. you wont lose much rating for losses
eventually your mmr will catch up to your CR and it should get easier.
foir now i suggest u just try ur best aginst higher mmr players and focus on what u can do diff
Why would you consider this a bad thing? Someone complaining about gaining rating? That’s a first
Last season rating was messed up, they were insanely slow at adjusting rating for lower participation so it was extremely hard to gain rating. I’ve pushed rating at the start of a season exactly once in my life and it was in shadowlands, got my 2100 and it was relatively easy. I didn’t play much arena last season but I don’t think I would have been able to get 2100 even at the end of the season, and I’ve improved since shadowlands.
The fluctuations from season to season makes comparing prior seasons kind of pointless. Being able to easily get 2100 one season after not doing arenas for 10 years and then having it basically be out of reach another season, even after two years of improvement, just means you can’t take it seriously.
Best to treat this season as a brand new one with new rating rules. They said they worked on rating and inflation before the season started this time, so that might just be what you’re seeing. 1900 is just your new 1700 and maybe where you should have been all along if the rating system wasn’t so awful, but the people you’re facing are being bumped to 1900 just like you are
MMR changes drastically during placement games.
There’s also carryover MMR from previous seasons.
The intention is that players reach an appropriate MMR more quickly.
Thanks much appreciate the feedback. Just have to focus on improving like the other guy said.