2v2 team - mixed ratings...Follow

Exploit or simply leveling a friend?

Noticed an unhealthy trend for my gal and I's 2v2 team - mixed rating teams - they've been slaughtering us. O_o

The pattern has been one guy with a lousy rating and another one with a more solid one, usually about a 500 point spread. While the lower level guy usually goes down easy enough - depending on partner - nothing like having a healer who outgears the heck out of you to deal with while his unkillable "pet" goes to town on you or your partner - the higher rated one inevitably owns the fight.

I'm guessing this is something that was only made possible by the last patch as this is the first time I'm seeing it and it turned a normally somewhat productive run of arenas that usually fills the bar for the week into a miserable waste of "well at least we got the pet" runs where we only won when we were dealing with a team in which both opponents were the same level.

There's also a reasonable amount of clothies going for this or the spirit version. "LF 2v2 partner so I can get my wand", is not uncommon in /2 on my servers. Lots of them barely PvP, and are only doing it because it's a fast way to upgrade from a green wand. I imagine they get matched up with some pretty decent PvPers from time to time.