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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
I will never understand why blizzard does some of the things it does. The new rating announcement for season four makes so little sense for the majority of the people who play this game; it's just astonishing.
I see why the pvp elite love it, but it's not going to really have that big an impact on point buying and selling (which is just going to become rating buying and selling). It's a very strange change in the face of making such good gear available through badge loot. I have always understood the rating requirement on weapons, since they make a disproportionate impact in pve and pvp, but the rating requirements on every piece of armor, including the honor gear? Yeow. That's some crazy shit right there.
I hope it gets changed, but blizzard looks like they're going into entrenched mode.
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The mentality of Blizzard developers is basically to seperate the "hardcore" from the "casual". Pretty much every person on WoW's dev team is a piece of shit, Tigole and Furor were when they played EQ, and still are. Kalgan balances classes based on what he's playing and what classes are on his arena team each season.
Pretty much all of them want a gap between the "top"(which means picking the flavor of the month classes to build a team)and the "bottom"(everyone else). The basic idea was to give the top a headstart in season 1, and slowly widen the gap with rating reqs until you get to season 4, which pretty much stops Casual John from getting anything.
Tigole has pretty much been opposed to pvp epics for a while, and he used to call them "welfare epics" because in his fucked up little mind raiding is so
hard.