![]() ![]() Under the Weather (New) Complete a Froststone Vault Primal Storm of every element.Explore the Forbidden Reach (New) Explore the post-storm Forbidden Reach, revealing the covered areas of the world map.Global Swarming (New) Defeat Vortex, Tremblor, Wildfire, and Flow in a Pet Battle.Thank you and we hope this provides answers to some of the feedback you have delivered regarding this PvP season. ![]() We’ve decided that end-of-season titles will once again be faction agnostic in Dragonflight Season 1. Now, players can play whichever faction they prefer and cross-faction titles are no longer necessary. If you wanted to play with those players, you needed to join that faction. Players decided which faction had the racials they preferred and flocked to that side. Prior to cross-faction groups in Arena, social dynamics were the primary driver behind which faction got the most player in organized PvP. Originally, these were added to encourage players to play both factions and this was largely successful. While we have you here, we also want to address faction-specific titles. ![]() In retrospect, we think this delay was too long and we’re considering starting it earlier in the future, perhaps at a reduced rate. Since we’re starting it later in the season at this aggressive rate, we won’t reach ratings that are highly overinflated. But now at week 10, players will be completing their Conquest sets, so inflation will kick in at 20 rating per week to help dislodge people from the top of the ladder and reach whatever their seasonal goal might be. Chasing titles and end of season rewards isn’t entirely relevant yet. We didn’t feel like inflation was necessary during the early season when players are playing to earn Conquest to complete their gear set. Something we decided to do for Dragonflight Season 1 was to delay the start of inflation until week 10. It also can lead to super-inflated ratings at the end of the season. But increasing inflation at more than 20 points per week results in feeling like no rating is safe. What we’ve learned is that increasing the mean rating at a rate of less than 15 points per week doesn’t allow people to overcome those early season ladder squatters. We’ve tried a lot of different numbers over the years. Another variable here is the rate at which we inflate the rating. One downside of this system is that when the season rolls over, rating inflation resets, and players feel unable to achieve a rating that they had only the week before. However, it also benefited other players, who could feel progress over the course of a season as they pushed their rating. Rating inflation was meant to ensure that the real action for titles happened at the end of the season. End of season – When a lot of players are pushing for seasonal milestones or titles.Mid-season – When most players are finishing their gear sets, gearing up alts, and trying out different classes.Early season - When most players are earning Conquest on a weekly basis to acquire gear.We feel like every PvP season has three stages: Originally, this system was developed to counterbalance the effect of players who earned a high rating early in the season then opting out of playing the rest of the season. Under the hood, rating inflation increases that mean rating over time, meaning that while at the start of the season an average player will quickly gravitate toward a rating of 1500, towards the end of the season their rating may rise to 1800. Players above the mean rating have above-average skill, while players below the mean rating deserve our love and support. ![]() What is the mean rating? Well, it’s probably easiest to say that a player with exactly average skill will have a “mean rating”, due to how the math of rating calculations works. Rating inflation allows us to increase the “mean rating” over time. We’ve seen a lot of discussion about ratings in the 2v2, 3v3, Rated Battleground, and Solo Shuffle brackets over the past few weeks and we wanted to clarify a few points, especially about “rating inflation.” We have alluded to a “rating inflation” system in rated PvP before, but we’ve never explained what it is, how it works and why we like it. Clarification on Ratings and Titles for PvP Dragonflight Season 1 ![]()
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