Alright, you all probably know that Blizzard came down hard on win-traders and pointsellers in 2.4.2.
Last night i discovered a major glitch in the new system.
To begin with, the new system pretty much follows this law;
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PvP
- Arenas
- If a character’s personal rating is more than 150 points below the team rating, they will earn points based on their personal rating instead of the team rating.
- If the average personal rating of the players queuing for a game is more than 150 points below the team’s rating, the team will be queued against an opponent matching or similar to the average personal rating.
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Unfortionaly for Blizzard, this allows for some heavy exploiting.
What you need
1x. Relatively high rated arena team, you will probably need a 1700+ rated team to begin with.
Personally, I bought one at 1730.
1x Friend to help you.
How do you do it?
1. Say you bought a 1700-ish team,
your personal rating should be at 1500. Now invite a friend to the team.
2. Queue up, instead of facing a 1700 rated team, 90% of the time you should meet a team in the 1500-bracket.
There's no shortcut here, you have to beat that team.
3. Upon winning, your team rating should go up from 5-7 rating most of the time, and your personal rating initially climbs 15-20 rating.
4. Keep beating the 1500-rated teams, after 15 games or so, your team rating should be at 1800 and your personal should be at 1670 or something like that.
As yours/your friends personal rating gets higher, it gets harder!
You will face teams of the lowest team members personal rating as long as it is over 150 below the team rating.
So what do you do? See step 5.
5. Have your friend leave and rejoin the team, he should be at 1500 personal rating,
that means you will now face 1500-rated opponents again
. Start playing with him and repeat 1-5.
Eventually your personal rating will even out with the team rating, last night I got to 1850 personal and team rating following this routine.
And all along I was fighting 1500-1600 team.
Questions and answer:
Q: Why did you have your friend leave and rejoin?
That way his personal rating gets reset to 1500, so that you have an anchor to keep you down in the 1500-bracket.
Enjoy guys!
Q: I just tried this and we faced the same team we did the last time! What am I doing wrong!?
If you try this when very few people play, chances are you will meet the same team again. This method is best used
when alot of people play (mondays, tuesdays 4-10pm).
Q:This works, but it gets hard the higher my own personal rating gets, is there a way to make sure I always face low rated teams even as my personal rating climbs?
If you want to get to 2k rating, you will eventually face 1700 rated teams in 2v2 (the average for you and your friends rating if you're at 1900 and he's at 1500)
There is a way to bypass this, I explain below.
Since you face teams equal to all the team mebers average rating, the most efficent way to use this exploit is to buy a 5v5 team, and have four friends help you.
This can be a bit tricky since you actually have to find 4 friends that's willing to play with you for your profit only,
but this will most certainly get you up to 2k+ teamrating and your own personal rating facing ONLY 1500-1600 rated teams.
The only difference is that you use a 5v5 team instead of a 2v2, so still use step 1-5.
How to exploit the new arena
