#0 - Sept. 25, 2008, 5:02 p.m.
Right now people are mainly upset (myself included) because we have found out anything above blue quality value in the expansion will have required arena points/ratings attached to this. This, understandably, makes many of us "bg and world pvp" only crowd upset.
However, there is much more to this than that.
I think when the general public finds out exactly *why* this was done, they wont just be upset, they will be infuriated. Ill put it very simple because im a little too angry to go into detail right now..
S4 hasnt been very successfull. Its clear that the majority dont have fun there. Hence, the s3/brutal players farming the 1500-1600 brackets... Blizzard knows this, clearly. Basically, a large majority of the population said "nah, no thanks ill just go to bgs or world pvp".
In a nutshell;
In Wrath of the Lich King, if you like any type of WoW pvp; you *are* going to arena if you like it or not.
The system wont live without the lower brackets. To be effective in any sort of pvp (bgs, arena, LWG, world) you will need gear with resilience. Instead of giving you "semi-effective" gear from bgs only, you will be made to go into arenas to earn the pvp gear, even if you dont come back. However the goal will be accomplished. You were there to feed the lower brackets so the arena junkies could rank up, and *keep* rank. Blizzard has invested quite a bit of money and developement time into arenas and if you think they are just going to say "ok ok, we will take focus off of arenas" you are fooling yourself. (although this would make many of us very happy). Basically, it doesnt matter if we dont like or want to participate in arenas, if you want to have any fun in pvp @ level 80 in any area of the game, you are going to arena if you like it or not. Without the 1200-1600 brackets.. there would be no 2k rated players at all.. the system doesnt work that way.
Im not sure what to say right now. I never had anything against arenas personally, it just turned out that my class/spec of choice wasnt very successfull there, so i took my fun elsewhere. I still love the battlegrounds and can compete in a satisfactory manner in my "welfare s2". I have about 200,000 pvp kills across all of my characters with less than 100 being earned from arenas. I almost feel betrayed in a way from a company that i have invested quite a bit of money into, and im not talking about only subscription fees. Nobody is going to make me do something i dont want to do. I will take my subscriptions and my stock investments elsewhere.
Sincerely,
A sad customer.
