Arena mentoring system broken

[Hellswrath]

<p>Currently the mentoring system in the arena is broken.  The arena I'm referring to is the PvP arena accessable via Qeynos/Freeport/Maj'Dul.  After checking this several days in a row for accuracy with several of my guildies, we noticed that not only does it no longer show you as being mentored to a lower level, but spell and combat art damage does not decrease despite being mentored to a lower level.  This was checked at an arena level cap of 20, 30, and 40.  It was also checked using toons at levels 40, 56, and 70.  Same indications for all players.</p><p>While most people use champions (that I know of, anyway) to make it fair, it would be nice to have the option still.  Obviously this is an unintentional bug and has been reported via bug, but I figured I'd throw it on the forums for people planning arena events to have a heads up.</p><p>If anyone notices any other issues with the arena mentoring system, please feel free to add more info to this thread until it is fixed.</p>

[Rashaak]

<p>I would really love it if they just allowed a Free For All option. No level cap and no mentoring. </p>

[Blakeavon]

I had the same the other day, went in there as a lvl 70 troub against a 54 conjorur. true it was a thing of beauty as a troub to actually two-shot someone to death but kinda meant there was no fun factor to be had <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Talz]

Good luck.  Sony hates the arena... or just doesn't care.  Either way the players suffer. It would be funny if there was an insane reward for 5,000 legitimate wins.  Then there would probably be ten matches at any given time full of people that wouldn't do it otherwise.

[Bright_Morn]

I just wish the arena used the actual PVP rule set.  This way taunts and deagro would work properly and mezes and stuns wouldn't be so overpowering.

[Hellswrath]

<cite>Rashaak wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I would really love it if they just allowed a Free For All option. No level cap and no mentoring. </p></blockquote><p> If you set the level cap at 70, then it <i>is</i> a free for all.  Level 20 players and such can still join and get savagely stomped by lvl 70 toons all day.  <img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>As it stands now, however, there is no way to make it even remotely fair when bringing a lvl 70 in to a lvl 30 cap battle.  Not that it was really fair to begin with. . .</p><p>In response to Bright_Morn, I agree that using the pvp ruleset here would be a welcome change.  I'd just like to see it not broken for now, though.</p>