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Originally Posted by Skarne
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I actually want to point out that arenas don't really take much time...you can get a really good rating just doing 10 games per week if you win enough.
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Ya true. You generally needed to do your 10 games/week because if I recall you needed that to be eligible for your weekly arena point reward for your current rating, which you would then use to buy arena gear with. If you didn’t keep up with your 10 games/week, you’d start to fall behind the gear curve and disadvantage yourself
You also needed a certain % of the team’s total games to be eligible for titles at the end of the season, so it wasn’t possible to sit and be a bench-warmer on a team and get a title that way
The higher up you went in rating generally the less you’d want to queue beyond your minimum 10 games/week. Once you were near the top of the ladder, you’d be only winning like 2-3 rating sometimes and risking losing 25-30 to a team 200 rating below you. And arenas were kinda like MMA in that sometimes unfortunate stuff can happen even to the best teams and cause an unexpected loss, like how even the best MMA fighters can sometimes get caught and knocked out, especially at heavier weights
Also, if you cared about your rating, it was worth sometimes considering what you were queueing into. Skill mattered above all, but behind that was gear and team comp. Certain comps had advantages and disadvantages against certain other comps. It was generally considered a bad idea to continue queueing into only comps that had a strong advantage against yours due to class makeup. Sometimes it was better to call it a day and try again with a better spread of comps