>implying arena is the only way to measure a character's strength
I guess you weren't around when I was in cave and able to win vs certain 20 lock/necro/barb/rogue et cetera.. If that still means noob to you then so be it. Of course our ratio was exactly the same, we made the chars together for that purpose and we were in it to win it not to martyr ourselves by randoming up with an undesirable/afk/dumbfuk partner.
It's a dog eat dog, wild, wild, twink rape random world out there.
It's good for you to prefer random though if that makes you proud of your arena seasons, I can understand and respect that, I have chars for it too.
Yep.