I'm not so fond of the bans, I have not capitalised on win trading myself but I know 2 groups of people are upset about win-trading:

PVE'ers who are upset that people are getting easy epics from Arenas

PVP'ers who are tired of running into low ranked teams trying to ladder climb/grind up a new player and hurting their wins/losses.

The problem with both of these scenarios is, most PVP'ers also do some raiding/instancing, and if PVE'ers are upset that a PVP'er has "easy epics" they could also entangle themselves casually in arenas/bg's to get "easy epics" as well. This would only benefit them in the long run and you can't do BT/Hyjal in a full S3/pvp set, so you have to be involved in raiding if you want to do real raids and vice versa if you want real serious PVP gear. Also someone buying a 2000 rating is a very far/extreme case (these are very few people).

Second group is PVP'ers who are tired of their losses.. Many of us who actually are now on top of the Arena rankings (legitimately) started doing arenas during S1 gear and had to grind our way up for months and months and months earning this gear. I think most of the PVP'ers complaining about this are newer players who don't understand how much time those of us who did legitimately earn our ratings to get where we're at. Those of us with good ratings will beat a team-buying team so the real market solution is to get good at pvp, get better gear (by slowly grinding like the rest of us did) and start winning.

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