Make arena rewards non-tradable

[Samhaine]

I've heard some grumbling about people *using* toons that aren't theirs to place higher in arena then they normally would and then letting the weak toons benefit.
Proposed band-aid is to make all arena rewards nontradable and go *poof* if sold to store.
Master recipes should probably be excluded...

[Blaze]

This had potential to be good idea. But in reality it's a stupid idea. One of the stupidest I've ever seen. Do you even know what arena prizes are?
Champ: LG item. They'll obviously sell the quite possibly useless (to them) item.
Title contender: LG armor. T1. I work so hard I get title contender.. Then get a t1 LG.. Guess I can use it to uptier my armor.... Someday...... Woot. Only need 15 more t1s to uptier!
Every other rank: tcs. Woot. I got 10 tcs. And.... Can only use them for face or rrt? I can't sell an item used commonly as currency?

So make it so you can't trade either lgs which are probably useless or near to you. And tcs which are currency in and of themselves. It'd be especially ironic for people who have perm premmy upgrade so they can't even use those soul bound tcs for face. So I'm being forced to use them for rrt? What if my build is pvp focused but I make crap pve? A 1.5m tc goes to become 500k?

I could go on. But honestly first 2 lines sum up everything.

[Pale]

I don't agree with the solution; nevertheless, Sam points out a real problem, a problem that is magnified on s2, Q manipulation. The manipulation is often done using OP toons with group access or toons that have been lent out. I call them whore toons. Often these toons are only put in q to hurt legitimate toons from getting a higher rating in the arena.

On s1 there are whole stables of toons sold at times. These are not new problems. Sadly many of the old proud s1 toons that I leveled with when Nod was young have been whored out.

I invested in 5 toons with all upgrades on s2. My investment is devalued by s2 whores.