I prefer RBG because arena is too stressful and only favors the op 1-shot specs like rouge and mage. RBG is nice because most games as tank I just shadowmeld on a base most the game, but it requires a different more tactical skill than arena. I started a few days ago and I’m 1600 now.
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Sorry, but that’s just a load of nonsense.
RBG might be more difficult for the raidleader/target caller because they need to coordinate 9 people who all need to be in different places and fulfill their roles, but it’s more forgiving for each of these 9 people in terms of personal skill. Your mage doesn’t know how to use their defensives? The warrior messed up their damage rotation sometimes? The rest of the team will make up for that and carry them through the BG.
everything comes down to one problem
- hyperinflated item level progression in both pve and pvp
if we had like 7 ilvls difference, or even 10, fine
but nah, we have that difference in one season and gear progression looks like s1 vs s4
If apewar can understand that, dunno why Ion/Devs can’t.
I think its fair, he is playing content, geting 1900 is quite time consuming and requires coordination. He got rewarded for spending lots of time in BG’s.
I do the same as this DH shown in your screenshot. I farm RBG to 2100 then i step into arena with my ALT friends, we drop to 1000CR because we can’t win any games higher, due to the alt has ilvl 150 and we start winning and gearing up. Without me having to trouble losing any of my ratings 
to upgrade gear.
Arenas should reward some cosmetics if reach certain rating and gearing should stay as it is.
Arenas we do cos we like it, no? I would do arenas without any rewards.
If u don’t know on rbgs he play as tank witch is huge demend meby he play as a tank all the time idk but from looks of it even full 220 gear he going no where in 2s 3s
Interesting stuff I noticed playing RBG:
Good arena player is by default good RBG player
Good RBG player is not necessary good arena player
I had best experience when i lead RBG grps: with 2k arena exp and spend time check if they are legit, almost impossible to lose a game until you overshoot your mmr to +500
For me rbg is for sure harder because i have to deal with a lot more bad players and trying to make up for their bad plays. Thats the only reason really.
they shouldnt be the same because they are different mini games. they should have exclusive rewards, for each.
Outside of a few specialist roles (the Rogue, the Tank) the skill required by any one individual of an RBG team to succeed at a given rating is significantly lower than its arena equivalent and that’s fine; it’s a different mode after all.
What isn’t fine is when two of those ten players then go into 2v2 and accidentally gatekeep 1600 or something dumb because they aren’t good enough to climb but are too geared to realistically drop any lower.
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RBG will be dead as soon as people won’t be interested in PvP gear. Don’t worreh.
Rbgs are a joke. 2400 is absolutly free to get when even the boons in my team got it. individual bad players that are hardstuck in arena that got elite due to 1 leader telling where to go and a tc telling what to hit.
So no, no glad mounts for rbg bois
That´s actually my typical season score in SL with my main. I focus on RBG (2100) mainly and I play with my friends to help them to get honors/CP in arena, when they had like 170ilvl. So of course I have plenty of losses in arenas, if we are not both geared
Actually RBG is still chance to get rating and then some gear, since Arenas are full of boosters and full geared ppl.
And I am sorry, but players are not to be blamed. It´s actually game developers, who are not doing anything to introduce fast catch-up system for gearing alts/new players or make gear less important in PVP. Players with 220ilvl delete ppl with 200ilvl very fast.
I am really dissappointed and I will stop my subscription this weekend, because joy with friends in alt RBGs 3x per week is not really enough to keep me paying 12Eur per month for game, where I am unable to compete without gear, which I am unable to get.
I met one of those RBG heroes in my arena on alt yesterday. Fully 220 geared frost dk spamming abilities randomly throughout the entire fight.
I won 3s vs 3 41 k hp rbg heroes,as 213 and 2x 205 ilvl
Next game,49 k hp lock,45 k hp dk and 23 k hp priest (boosters) at 1430 cr.
And actually next 8 out of 10 games we played,everyone pretty much had 38 k hp +
The answer in comparison is…
Different set of skills …
Raid/m+/arena/bg…all of them… different set of skills. Even 2v2 and 3v3 have differences… Someone may be god in 1v1 and not being that good in arena…or be the “the master plan” in bg and be crap in 1v1… Or be very good in arena and be crap in bgs that you maybe can’t LoS much or you are forced to play in an open wide area…
Different set of skills lol. Yeah tell me what kind of skill does a frost dk with 1,8k rbg rating have that cant even focus grip into frostwyrm and just spams his pve rotation on the proud 1,2k arena rating with his 220 ilevel gear?
He may got boosted to 1,8k … Lots of people like that…