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What is Measured Battlegrounds? I’m actually not sure exactly what it is but I seem to have an idea based on the discussion going on in the forums.I guess the vagueness also comes from the fact that we don’t have a system in place to define it. This is how I understand the basic concept of what Blizzard is trying to come up with. When fighting in a Battleground, players will be measured somehow for their contributions to the success or failure of a given match. While honor does this to a certain extent, it’s limited to activities that give honor and does not show the whole picture. For example a player left to defend a flag is just as important as those capturing a base in an Arathi Basin match but honor would favor those on offense rather than those on defense.

If I’m correct this measurement system would affect the player’s rating and would move up or down based on that player’s performance. There’s talk about rating the team instead of the player but I’m not sure how that would work considering players usually come from different realms to join Battlegrounds. This sounds a lot like the old honor system in that your success in Battlegrounds determines how you rank and also a lot like the Arena Tournament for the same reason. Maybe players have an individual rating and the system would match you up with others players with roughly the same rating as you.

It seems like Blizzard wants a system where individual contributions to every important aspect of playing in a Battleground that contributes to the goal of winning is credited somehow. I’m not sure how they’ll be able to marry the concept of individual achievement with a “winning through teamwork” outlook since we’ve seen that players often overlook teamwork for a chance to have the most kills or the most killing blows and things like that.

This is the dilemma that Blizzard faces and it’s a tough one to tackle. Guess we’ll just have to see what they do to really see what kind of system they will implement.

What are your thoughts on this Measured BG System?

Post from: WOW Obsessed

item level 239 arena weapons

Making season two gear available for honor back in the day just killed my desire to do any arena matches since I could just do battlegrounds for the gear I want. I really wanted the other gear from the newer seasons but I just didn’t want to do any matches especially when they made rating requirements for some of the gear.

I know this is an old topic but the subject of rating requirements for arena gear is still relevant even today and it just got a bit more relevant after Blizzard Poster Crygil came out with news about a change they’re implementing. It actually seems like this change is already in effect based on his words.

The current arena rating system allows more players to have higher ratings in the 2v2 bracket when compared to 3v3 and 5v5. We are preparing an in-game update that will be improving the rating system of the 3v3 and 5v5 brackets to allow all three of the brackets to have a similar number of players able to achieve ratings on par with what’s currently possible in our 2v2 arena bracket. As a result, we are changing the personal and team rating requirements for the item level 239 weapons from 2200 to 2350, but keep in mind the tooltip will continue to show the requirement as 2200 until patch 3.1.2.
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note: To see Crygil’s entire post, just click the link above.

This means that it’s going to be much harder for players to get these arena weapons, with the rating requirement being raised. Some teams were probably trying to get that 2200 rating just for this and now they’ll be disappointed to see it’s been raised. I guess it’s all for the best anyway since these weapons are the best pvp weapons available at the moment, being compared to weapons you can get from heroic Ulduar. If it gets too easy to obtain then the welfare epics discussion from the past may be revived because of this.

Post from: WOW Obsessed