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Moldveien — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:05:00 GMT

Blizzard is just fucking up arena!

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Zurayth — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:59 GMT

No way, I think the new requirements is good. No longer do I have see to noobs unworthy of the gear they have. >.>

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Melamoto — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:58 GMT

no its bad

when i get to 1.5k rating im meeting people with full s3 gear its not fair and we just get owned so when they bring out s4 gear will we stand a chance?

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Vistix — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:57 GMT

i think this is fair because now you won't be able to buy high rated teams and loose a couple of times to get al vengeful gear...
i totaly agree with Zurayth

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phaden — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:56 GMT

Those graphic settings are pretty cool, work great!!

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Sweetus1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:55 GMT

How can they *** it up ? They are actualy fixing it! Grow up kid

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Sweetus1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:54 GMT

Everyone stand a chance if they work hard. How do you think it is for many people to get the gear in sunwell ? "Just rush in and get it?..Brainiac!

Indeed now we don`t need to see ppl that haven`t got the skills nor gear req to get such an gear run around and think they are god himself.

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MSlayerFusion — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:53 GMT

their 'enhance your graphics' macro is missing something (but not their macro to reset them :P)
they forgot the line '/console detailDoodadAlpha 100'
The "bloom" effect wont seem to be more vivid without that ;P

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CarlRamrod — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:52 GMT

After doing the "enhanced graphics" macro, I've been experiencing the following problem: the over-the-enemy's-head castbar is faulty and usually get stuck at 1/4 filled. The below-the-portrait castbar is still fine.

Is it possible the macro has caused this problem? I wouldn't think so. Any ideas?

I'm going to start a fight without any mods enabled to see if the problem still occurs.

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Shadewind — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:51 GMT

"If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating"

Wouldn't this mean that if you take 5 people with good gear and low personal rating and put them in a high rated team they would have a 2000 rated team, and fight people with 1600 rating, easily bringing their rating to 2200? or am i missing some game mechanics? :P

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Aaberg — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:50 GMT

Hmm... How much rating does a 2000 team get from killing a 1600 team?
Your personal rating will go up, but I don't think you can really boost your team rating that much.
But having never really played top PvP (gief more raids), I can't really tell how much you get.

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2rbear — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:49 GMT

I fully agree, what's even worse, are the ones who farm (and bot?) AV for honor, and when they hit 70, they suddenly have full S1 and think they OMGWTFPWN.

"A n00b in 1337 gear is still a n00b" (a noob in leet (elite) gear is still a noob, srry for the leetspeek, hope you don't mind ^-* )

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Eternal_Solitude — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:48 GMT

I agree they are making it better... Arena will be more competative, and once teams establish themselves in a team, you wont see team selling anymore, so generally those high rated people will stay high rated and there will be more competition amongst the lower ranked teams, because in theory their gear wont b on par... (well technically you will face uber gear'd players, but generally if their ranked that low, either their team sucks ***, or they do and it's just earned gear from previous season... REMEMBER PEOPLE, gear DOES NOT mean skill or talent... Just means they need less of it...)

I think the first few weeks of s4 will be hectic, as it was for all the past seasons until teams establish themselves in the ranks where they belong...

The only people who should be complaining are the people who suck balls at arena and or bg's... and hopefully this will reflect on the BG's as well, making it so the fuckin retards in WoW wont be encouraged to do BG's cuz they wont be able to obtain gear from it... STICK TO PVE NUBS LEAVE THE PVP TO THE BIG BOYS!

**the only drawback that will effect me in this upcoming change is the fact i play with a lot of RL friends, and so when we're bored and have nothing to do, we drop our arena teams and join one of our friends just 2 do some rated games for fun... Wont really be able to do that anymore... or at least if we want points for the week... No more team hopin**

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jasdub — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:47 GMT

I'll keep this KISS.

As a person who does both PvE and PvP I think the rating requirements for season 4 are great. Not only does it create balance within the PvP arena system but also in the PvE realm, allowing people to value their high end PvE epics.

But for Season 3 items to carry a rating requirement may be a little harsh. There will be many old timers who acquired season 2 weapons and shoulders since the day they came out and will still be using them well into the launch of WoTLK or until the day they quit.

Learn 2 play right? Wrong, the customer is always right and in this case many of them will not receive what they desire, upgrades to the most important slots of their WoW alter ego, weapons and shoulders.

Save the drama for your mama and please don't flame.

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Scrolldownscrollup — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:04:46 GMT

Those graphics settings have made things worse. I first executed the macro, and everything looked "enhanced"(more detail etc), however my view distance decreased. I decided to revert back to the old setup, so I executed the second macro and all the changes reverted except my viewing distance is shorter. Everything far ahead is pitch black. For example in AB I can't see from one node to the other. Prior to this I was able to see from one node to another(LM to BS, Farm to BS, Stables to BS, etc).