Blue posts from Blizzard developers and community leaders never seem to make it to the official World of Warcraft front page very often, but there's actually a substantial collection of posts up on the site now regarding the recent Arena matchmaking changes introduced in Patch 3.0.8.

This post focuses mainly on an overview of the new system, including its purpose: "The primary goal of the new Arena matchmaking system is to match players against opponents of similar skill, regardless of your or your opponents’ team rating." This post then goes into more details about the team, personal and matchmaking ratings.

Lastly, this post discusses some of the design philosophy behind the change and offers some clarification, such as "The new system uses a bayesian prior distribution in order to prevent inflation, which in simpler terms means there's math that enforces that players won't have ratings outside of some range."

So what has your Arena experience been like since Patch 3.0.8 went live? What are your thoughts on the matchmaking system?