A solution to make arenas more competitive

Hello everyone!
After a long time playing on this server, I think we have all noticed a clear pattern on what ruins competitive arena pvp- the infamous holy/arms setup.
Now, to be clear- I don´t want to start any flame here, gathering all the WP players claiming it´s not OP. Yes, with 284 lvl meta, a lot of classes are crazy, but nothing comes close to the sheer domination of WP, I think we all know how the situation is. WP has been always the #1 setup in wotlk for 2s, and with the sm+284 gear availability it´s just enhanced. I mean, if you really need hard facts, just check the ladder at any time. Having said that, I repeat I have no intention to start a typical flame war, just stating out facts.

What do do about it?
The clear and logical solution would be to downgrade gear to 264, which would still make the game somehow balanced and enjoyable. However, I suppose that the $$$ from smournes are way more important than balanced gameplay and we wouldn´t want smourne donator heroes to feel discouraged, so this solution is probably pointless to even mention

Which leaves the solution of dealing with it at the current gear. Now, from what I´ve talked to other top players, they suggested either some kind of a nerf for the setup or creating a separate bracket for holy/arms teams. There were ideas like bigger minus rating for a loss and lesser + rating for a win, but since these teams only lose to a counter specc´d WP, it´s probably pointless.

If you have any suggestion or idea on how to tackle this problem, feel free to communicate. And please, no flame here. We all want a better and more balanced arena environment.

Hey man,

I was making some suggestions in the past as well but nobody will take them into consideration as:
1. Any modification will ruin the entire ecosystem - the players who bought SMs will be sad because they won't have anyone else to farm. See Lordaeron BGs situation.
2. Staff always sees everything perfect so they will prove you are wrong everytime. I guess this is the main issue, them denying the actual problems; like this continuous boring 284 meta on Blackrock. Their hands are bound they cannot do and will not do anything about this 100% in the future.

Everything has a counter and it's up to the player to determine and execute. Nerfs aren't and shouldn't be part of the counter.

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Originally Posted by nemil

Hey man,

I was making some suggestions in the past as well but nobody will take them into consideration as:
1. Any modification will ruin the entire ecosystem - the players who bought SMs will be sad because they won't have anyone else to farm. See Lordaeron BGs situation.
2. Staff always sees everything perfect so they will prove you are wrong everytime. I guess this is the main issue, them denying the actual problems; like this continuous boring 284 meta on Blackrock. Their hands are bound they cannot do and will not do anything about this 100% in the future.

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1. The people who bought SMs can't play with low geared people on Lordaeron under normal circumstances and when the brackets do mix you get them on both teams.
2. And the player base actively ignores our point of view because it doesn't align with a single context. But guess what? We aren't operating to make everyone happy because it's literally impossible in an environment like this. There are too many people with too many individual contexts to satisfy them all. All we can do is find a middle ground and hope other people can understand that as long as you're with other people there will be compromise.