Arena, Playing for Fun?

So here we are, just under the 2-month mark for season three. Teams are beginning to establish themselves and fine-tune their various class combinations. Now, for me the game has always been centered around a couple very simple goals. First, gear out, second, win.




Over-simplistic? Perhaps, but when it gets right down to it that was always the objective. Regardless of if we’re talking about raiding or arena, it was always to “win”, to have the best record, to have the highest damage, to achieve what others could only hope to.




If anything arena has certainly made the path to gear quick. At just under two months into the season both my rogue and shaman are completely geared in their respective arena and honor sets. Now granted, each season I’ve completed the sets with plenty of time to spare, so there was always that feeling like I was playing for the gear while also playing just for the fun of it.




A part of me is somewhat disappointed that their probably won’t be any new items till season 4 begins, but then again it’s nice to just play for fun, without having to consider the repercussions of dropping rating or rank.




Honestly, I think it just makes arena more enjoyable. In the end not having to worry about rating and just playing to improve makes the game the brackets better. Too often I think players worry so much about their ratings and rankings that they refuse to queue “too much” during the week. The more people can get away from sitting on their ratings all week long and just playing to play the better off arena’s are going to be.



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