Wotlk season 6 is wrapping up and with that, it’s possibly the most dead arena season of all time. There are currently half the gladiator spots than there were rank 1 spots by the end of dragonflight season 1.
In 10.07 Blizzard came up with a change that made it so if a player had multiple characters taking up rank 1 slots, it would extend the number of available rank 1 slots by however many extra characters that player had. So for example, if there were 100 gladiator spots, and a certain player had four characters in rank 1 range, there is now 103 spots. This somewhat “saved” season one and I think this change would be beneficial to wotlk classic.
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I agree, so many people have several alts especially of the same class occupying spots. Good idea
Thanks, I want to clarify this should count for both glad and r1
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agreed
at least change the percentages
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This would be a good temporary change, or inject some spots. Anything really.
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great idea, hopefully they’ll add it to the backlog and we might see an arena change like this in shadowlands classic
Will this make blizzard more money? If not they don’t care.
I fully support this, but it won’t happen until titles are account wide.
I don’t really see the connection here, they did it for rank 1 titles, which aren’t account-wide in retail. there would be no incentive to push multiple chars into r1 range if the titles were account-bound
The biggest change that needs to happen is the removal of MMR inflation.
They added this at the end of last season thinking it would help the game but it ended up just making things worse.
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Not antagonizing here, but I am genuinely curious what makes the mmr inflation such a problem? I hear people say this but to me isn’t it just reverse rating decay? At the end of the day titles are percent-based, so isn’t the actual number irrelevant
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Sorry, I totally misread your comment. Yes, it should work like in retail and have (your example) 103 people get R1 if someone had 3 other alts in the R1 range, which would pool more people in the title since the same person is getting the title on multiple toons.
The mass gap between mmr is a huge issue. At low mmr it’s easy to get spam queues but once you reach a point you get so little queues because you end up waiting however long for a game vs either a low team or a higher team and the mmr gap between both teams is pretty noticeable.
Yeah I’ve noticed that recently. Pushing duelist for the first time and had some wins where we received 18-20 points and then 5-9 points due to thr MMR spread.
The playerbase isn’t large enough to support this large of a gap. You’re sitting 5 minute queues at 2600 then getting instant pops at 2900.
My issue is that I stand to gain from changes to this, but honestly feel like I shouldn’t. I would be a hypocrite to say blizzard should do this because I’ve been saying from the start of TBCC that Blizzard has made changes that have just cucked the casual playerbase. We are literally seeing the result of blizzards constant screwing of casual pvpers. Rating starting at 0 vs 1500 you saw people supporting the change and laughing at more casual players who thought it was a bad idea. Then we have people complaining about title cut offs because literally no one is playing. Can’t mock the bottom players and then demand changes in your favour. Its simply outrageous.
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Who’s mocking lower players here, or in general? This change doesn’t have any negative impact on anyone, really