User:Frostels/RA - Do we need it

I am starting up this rant discussion to see whether the RA section is worth keeping.

RA and TA
In essence, RA is just TA with a random team, therefore a Team Arena's build will suit RA well but obviously, if you are a warrior with no monk on your team you are likely to not get many wins. So we could easily remove the RA section and if anybody wants to find a build that will work for them in RA, a reference to the meta/good TA builds will be sufficient.

Pure luck
When it comes down to it though, random arena's is always down to your teammates, a wonderful player can enter RA and come against an everage team, but if his/her teammates are not good he/she will loose. So then why should we have "Great" RA builds, when they simply require luck to get a winstreak going.

Removing the RA Section
Now I am actually going to suggest something that would be a fair compramise for all the users of PvX. Removing the RA section would actually not be an amazing idea (I wouldn't disgree with it) but a better idea would be to not allow RA ONLY builds. RA only builds are usually very bad and often lack focus and rely on a bad opposing team (which is a bad mentality to enter a game with). Instead, we tag builds that are good/great (or other even though this section is terrible) for other areas (GvG/TA/HA) into the RA section if they function well enough there.

Like I said before, a build focused around RA will often be bad compared to a more offense or focused build from another area.

While we are here
I am (and I hope a few others may too) going to go over all the RA builds and make a note of which ones are RA only, and which ones are tagged for other areas which they shouldn't be tagged for (eg a cleary RA build tagged for TA because the author doesn't want the build to be "RA only")

Anyway, discuss please.

Frosty  po!  17:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)