Arena point gain is intentionally different, and this is in-fact not a bug. A typical team will see a small change in their points, but players with very high or very low ratings will see a much larger change. Below is the new formula.
If rating<=1500 then
Points=0.38*rating-194
(note: this calculation can go negative, but will be floored at 0)
If rating>1500 then
Points=1426.79/(1+918.836*Power(2.71828, -0.00386405*rating))
You didn't need to be that good to start with to get the glad gear and now they are making it even more easy for the poor poor casuals that can't play even if they hired a china farmer to do it.
The arena and the gear that comes from it were supposed to be for people who are devoded to pvp and are good at it. But now anyone can just start a 5on5 loose all matches and still collect a whole set of arena armor and weapon, it just takes some time.
Q u o t e: I don't know where you ppl went to learn math...But this does not make it easier for the casual gamer to get the arena gear.
In fact it makes it harder for them. And this also stops a team to get 2300 arena points in 1 week.
This change is a good thing. Maybe now ppl will stop trying to buy arena points from the top teams.
Why should they STOP now? It will now really START ;-)
If your team is higher rated than 2100 then every single point more will give you not so much gain than before, in fact they equalize the high rating teams. On the other hand, people like me, who just lost 10 games each week and collected the points will now need to look for an arena point selling team ;-)
What do you think is a good price per point? 12 Silver per arenapoint earned?
it never ment anything in the first place, class imbalances couldnt be more obvious in 2v2 + the thing that determines the win mostly is what class make up you are facing. Esports don't have +101 imbalances, wow is not an esport, get over it.
(Chance to: *******) = lol, welcome to MMO!
Edit: in terms of it meaning less in points, a shame.
Well this is certainly good news for me, the brackets I play in get buffed by 1-2%. High rated teams get really screwed, not really fair.
And I'm sick of seeing people on my server with gladiator gear and absolutely no skill, 1100 ratings etc. Very bad players will now be unable to get the gear, unlike it was previously.
Q u o t e: 1600 - 1900 has been buffed, which is casual.
So stop whining already!
Yeah you can do 1600-1900 casual but still it's above average.
The average rating in the system will always be aproxamitely 1500. (Depending on how many teams disband that are over 1500 compared to number of teams who disband below 1500).
