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Originally Posted by The Ancient  I've watched my friends struggle for a good month in the 1500-1600 range upon entering the arena system and they eventually started climbing and are now 2100 players. Have you tried long enough to truly say it's impossible or did you just assume it was and give up. |
Month? Fucking I wish. It's been like this on Cyclone since mid s2. We move up to 1700 or so, get a bad streak of pure gladiator/duelist/pointselling/(war/dru with s3 shoulders + paladin!) steamroll teams, drop down to 1550-1600, start kicking scrub ass, move back up, and the cycle perpetuates itself. At very few points do I feel that we're actually getting "Good" games. It's either us fucking destroying people or getting bent over a fucking barrel. I might get 1 or 2 good games a week, where I actually feel that the opposing team is the same rating that we are. It is my understanding that's what the ELO system is supposed to do...rate you against people who are roughly the same skill as you. It pretty much doesn't do anything of the sort.
The rating requirements are fine, I understand why they're doing it. But you can't pair up people with that kind of shit against scrubs or the system falls apart as the scrubs feel that they can't compete.