#0 - Feb. 17, 2007, 1:38 a.m.
"5v5 matches will award a full allotment of arena points.
3v3 matches will award 80% of the allotment.
2v2 matches will award 60% of the allotment."
In order to gain the maximum amount of arena points per week, one must participate in all three brackets. This is OK. BUT the efforts of a 2v2 or a 3v3 team should not be worth LESS than the efforts of a 5v5 team.
This puts PvPers with 4 friends who PvP extremely well at an advantage over PvPers with only one or two friends who are highly interested and excel at the PvP aspect of WoW. PvP is NOT harder in a 5v5 match than a 2v2 match. Players will be fighting an even number of opponents regardless of which bracket the players choose to fight in.
There are no clear "best classes" for every situation in a 2v2, 3v3 or a 5v5 bracket. However, it is easier to gain points in a 5v5 team if your team is full of players with a greater amount of strong PvPers because "Your team needs to have fought a minimum of ten matches per week to be rewarded with Arena Points, and a player must have been in at least 30% of all your matches to be eligible for that week's points." This means that a player can play 4 games and slack off for the rest of the week. This happens more often in a 5v5 bracket than a 2v2 bracket bceause there are more players "needed" in a 5v5 team and therefore more players that can sit idly around for arena matches. Thus, it is harder to maintain and gain points in a 2v2 team than in a 5v5 team and this Arena system works against what the Blizzard www.worldofwarcraft.com website states is the intention of the Arena system: to "reward competitiveness and player skill." (If you do not understand this paragraph, it is stating that the system is not rewarding competitiveness).
