This is getting ridiculous now. I’ve played 15 games in the last half hour and they have all been glads boosting people. HOW are you supposed to learn and climb when all that happens is you just get slapped by people who are 800 rating above you
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And dont forget the >12 more ilvl. At 1600 rating you probably have around 210-215 ilvl. I played 1 hour arena 2v2 and 3v3 and all we got were boosting dudes who play on 2.8k rating in other arena or rbg, outgearing us so hard, its stupid. More gear can get outplayed, but higher gear AND way more experience and skill is like driving into a solid wall.
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Boosters who play at low rating are doing a charity for the low rated people.
People play a cr*pload of money to play with football stars, meanwhile the best players in the wow are literally playing with you for free.
Stop being entitled, and try to learn something from them…
How does that have anything to do with him being entitled? It’s like making a silver league player face off against a challenger player. Not everyone can/will be glad but they might be able to climb to duelist or 2.2k if they play against players that are on their level. Under normal circumstances they will play against a player like that once every 50 games, it’s just getting a little wild now with 75% of your games being against one of these boosters.
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For free he says, just cuz some streamers do it for free on stream, doesnt mean all those boosters at low rating are doing it for free haha, I bet maybe 1% of all the boosting going on is free, and I’m being generous there.
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There’s nothing entitled about it, read a dictionary. There is a fundamental problem with a ladder based pvp rating system where you spend your time trying to climb it and learn and then get spanked for an entire evening playing against people at the elite end of it
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Learning from better players is good, but having no chance results in less motivation and tilting. Im hard stuck at around 1,7k because finding people to play with is the first thing (everyone expects to have 5k exp even though they are playing like 1.4k) and getting outgeared is not cool. What do you think is the reason for having drug tested sports? Its pretty much the same when I face 225 ilvl dudes with 1k more rating on other chars.
You NEED to play higher rating to get the gear many dudes have which are trolling around in lower rating.
And pls dont answer something like: l2p, need to improve, there is a reason to be stuck on xy rating, … Games vs nearly same geared players are always more fun and closer than the mentioned boosting lobbies, specially in 2v2.
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I totally agree with you, im stuck at around 1650 because my partner and i always get smashed by 220 ilvl ppl and we are just around 210… we sometimes beat them but either arena rating reward is broken or this should be re-designed. we got positive w/l ratio and still it feels impossible to get higher.
FIX 2v2 please… rating reward or mmr … just do something
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Did reach 1,8k for the first time today and the last 100 rating were a massive sh*tshow. Boosters everywhere and constantly people who have 220 gear against 213 gear. My suggestion would be to remove game time tokens and remove the rating gating as well or make the difference in gear so low that it doesn’t matter much. Giving everybody welfare gear is for sure a better solution than this p2w garbage.
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You would meet 220 people around 1800, that’s literally how the system works (although imo that is why it shouldn’t exist).
Getting close to each milestone is always the difficult bit, because people would have gone past it, upgraded all their gear and then dropped again.
Although yeah, there are just boosters literally everywhere, mostly on rets, warrs, WWs and hpalas heh.
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Nice exaggeration there, maybe you just aren’t as good as you think you are? I’m used to being outgeared in every season since wod and this season doesn’t feel much different apart from some classes that can randomly oneshot.
exaggeration xD
literally every streamer who matters is 2,4k+ in 3s and 1700 in 2s… because he sucks in 2s, yeah? xD
and those 4 glads with sinful mounts i had to fight within 1h are just made up xD
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That’s like what, 5 players? Do you meet them in every arena?
There’s nothing to learn from getting zerged.
You learn by repeating an action until it sticks, and then you build upon that.
Mmr is there to increase the chance to meet opponents of similar skill level so you can do just that, repeat the action.
So stop defending that you bought a boost.
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Well yeah, it’s logical that people close 1,8k have 220 gear but it’s a design flaw in the game imo. Makes it unnecessary hard for people to break through 1,8k.
This system is just simply terrible and promotes boosting. Bad holy pala gets boosted to 1800 by fully geared glad player > drops rating to 1600 after boost is done > is now gatekeeping people from going over 1600 because of 20ilvl difference making it impossible to kill them unless they play a strong double dps comp > best option is to get boosted yourself or just play 3s, good luck finding 3s partners with 200ilvl though
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Its even worse at lower levels. Im stuck on 197 gear, and a 1k rating. Yes, Im not very good at arena, and Im still trying to learn, but coming up against 38k+ enemies when you have 29k hp is a joke. And it happens 8 games out of 10. No, Im not exaggerating.
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How is going from 1600 to 1800 sudenly giving them a 20 ilvl advantage if I may ask? Almost no one is full Conquest yet, making the difference 5-6 ilvls at most, which isn’t an issue.
Also, if they drop straight down after the boost they are obviously not gatekeepting anyone and still losing games against lower rated and geared players. A bad boosted player will still be a bad player.
That’s not because of boosting though, but because PvE players around ilvl 205-210 are flooding the arena for the Conquest gear to fill their gaps. Those make up like 95% of the overgeared players you face at <1400. Since they have absolutely no idea what they are doing, you still have a chance to win, even with an ilvl below 190.
tbh played RMP on my rogue with my fellas on 1800mmr and 2 fo 3 enemies were glads, 80% of them (of glads) were ww monks honestly. Cuz my friend is the newbie… the games vs glads become not fun at all.
Gear matters. Massively. Unless the overgeared players literally have no idea what they are doing, they just train myself and my teamie down. We can do everything right for 25 seconds, but then out of nowhere we get one shot. Its incredibly hard to get a win in 2s at low ranks.
We switched to 3s, and I think we went 12 wins out of 15, which is what leads me to think its boosting.
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