| This whole thing started out as a way to get after rogues/warriors in PvE from scrubbing for weapons through season 1 and 2, as if they were harming anyone. I'm all for the point selling being curtailed, but the ratings are retarded. Rating selling didn't even exist before S3 because it didn't matter, or rather rating and point selling co-existed because it didn't matter.
The problem had always been the PvE side of things being so RNG dependent that arena was a more sane choice (prompting 100% token loot debates). Less gay in raids = less raiders scrubbing for points. Fix things with a positive. Or you could work to alienate and embitter your customers by fixing things with a negative, aka nerf. Blizzard has chosen to half-ass both ends of the argument by providing moderate token looting through the sunwell loot exchange+T6 molds, and slapping varying ratings on even more PvP equipment. Loot exchange and set molds = good. Additional ratings = bad.
The argument against token loot and larger quantity of drops has generally been that people would go through content too fast. "People" in this situation is a miniscule, vocal fraction of WoW's subscribers that are good at the game. Scrubs will still wipe so often with exceptional gear that they'll take eons to get there, and pros will blast through shit with blues on. I mean, these tools still can't pug a nerfed Gruul in S3 gear. They're fucking hopeless, it doesn't matter.
Some alternatives they have also half-assed: segregated loot tables that guarantee a wanted item like a weapon, relying more heavily on sockets and enchanting to specialize equipment between roles to cut down on the class/spec specific clutter in the loot tables. There's no reason that between these two mechanics and the loot exchange vendor that they can't completely fix loot acquisition overnight, and by fix I mean destroy the eminence of the RNG.
I've got an older account too Larion, but I can't figure out the password and don't care that much to try (Zoran). I got lambasted during my original few posts for the 05/05 crap. I believe I was discussing the fucked up threat mechanics of EQ2 and all the WoWfags came in saying "just use sunder armor durrrr stupid 05/05". Much fun was had. |