11-16-2009, 04:54 PM | #2221 |
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11-16-2009, 05:02 PM | #2222 |
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And on my server, the orbs are only worth about 800 each anyhow.
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11-16-2009, 06:32 PM | #2223 | |
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I've just been buying orbs for guildies who ask for it.
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11-16-2009, 11:36 PM | #2224 |
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What is this attitude!?
You ALWAYS need more money! Plus hello 24 slot bags next patch, 3k apiece 11 bags = 33k gold, there's your good reason to get more money :P (at the very least get orbs and give em to guildies, alts... the emblems aint doin you any good just sitting there in your currencies pane. Hell, give some to some random newly dinged 80, make his week with a new pair of bracers or something)
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11-17-2009, 12:43 AM | #2225 | |
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He can't do that if I already do that.
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11-17-2009, 12:14 PM | #2226 |
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Tonight is a raid night for us and lately I've been fooling around with Xfire, a live streaming site for games like WoW and my GM wants me to stream our raid tonight for his own personal amusement. Since it's going to be done anyways, I thought I would show it off here for anyone that might want to pop in and see how we do things on Whisperwind.
http://www.xfire.com/live_video/slylos/ Our raid isn't until 8pm EST but I'll be streaming throughout most of the day anyways while doing BGs and other random 10 mans. I'll post a reminder before the raid actually starts for anyone that wants to watch. *Warning* This stream will probably contain conversations from our Vent since I have it set up that way and our GM cusses A LOT, and calls people idiots and worse...A LOT. Fair warning.
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11-17-2009, 11:28 PM | #2227 |
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Anyone else find the arena rating totally messed up? My team is at 1018 rating and we win the majority of our games, but the ones we lose we lose like 8-12 rating and we only win like 6-9 rating.
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11-18-2009, 06:53 AM | #2228 |
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That's how it's supposed to work.
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11-18-2009, 02:41 PM | #2229 |
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Up to level 50...only 30 more to go.
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11-18-2009, 02:47 PM | #2230 |
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What are your comparative matchmaking levels? How many games have you played? Are you just starting and are getting your ranking up consistantly? If you're winning a lot the game goes "YOu're new, but winning, you must be well-geared/skilled but a recently created team" and your ranking increases are lower.
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11-27-2009, 08:30 PM | #2231 | |
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11-27-2009, 09:51 PM | #2232 | |
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11-30-2009, 05:37 PM | #2233 |
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The point is that if you beat a team that is better than you, you get a LOT of ranking, and if you beat a team that is a lot worse than you, you get only a small increase to ranking.
So when you are brand new and it is still figuring out your appropriate matchmaking level, if you're losing a lot, you tend to lose very little if any ranking, and if you are winning a lot, you tend to win not as much ranking. I mean new teams that are running more like 50/50 or 40/60 are getting 45 ranking per win, and a team that is beating the pants of people might get only 10 or 12 BUT their matchmaking value is still increasing, so they get places against better and better teams as they keep winning, so they aren't in fact only crushing crappy teams, they just aren't getting LARGE ranking increases until they start beating teams that are better than them. Let me rephrase it: Matchmaking value is a measure of how "good" the team is. Ranking gain/loss is a measure of how much better/worse the winning team was compared to the losing team. If you start fresh in a bracket, the game does not know how good you are, so it places you against teams of wildly different skill levels. If you perform very well and win the majority of games, your ranking gain is slowed, because you're clearly very good and still playing very poor teams, so it's unfair for you to get a ton of ranking that easily, but your matchmaking value DOES increase, thus making you play harder teams. The goal is to get you placed according to your actual skill as quickly as possible, while giving you the least amount of "free" rating against really bad teams while they move you up. Last edited by devonin; 11-30-2009 at 05:39 PM.. |
11-30-2009, 06:12 PM | #2234 | |
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Arena uses the ELO Rating System
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11-30-2009, 06:25 PM | #2235 | |
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11-30-2009, 06:45 PM | #2236 |
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That's the old BC max points, but the rating system is still essentially the same, but slightly modified since you start out at 0 instead of 1500. Plus you have not only a personal arena rating but a hidden secondary rating that pairs you with players of your same skill level.
The amount of rank you move up has nothing to do whether you win frequently or not beyond winning in general.
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11-30-2009, 06:49 PM | #2237 |
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I read patch notes
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11-30-2009, 07:29 PM | #2238 |
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Um...no, once your matchmaking score and ranking settle out as "established" you're correct that winning/losing frequently does not effect the amount of rank you move up or down. But until you reach that point (IE, while you're under about 1100 or so, you tend to -almost always- get 40+ points on a win, and lose 0-5 on a loss) while it's still trying to establish where you actually are, the ranking change does not follow that formula.
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11-30-2009, 07:45 PM | #2239 | |
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12-2-2009, 03:42 PM | #2240 |
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What do you think you could get on eBay for a level 80 paladin, with a tanking and healing set good enough for ToGC10/TOC25, and a 935 resi pvp holy set and a 1600 personal ranking in 2s?
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