Q:
Ranked arena while season has ended
A:
You can still play ranked arena’s but it has the same rewards with unranked at this time. I’m pretty sure you cant advance You Year of Ascension Achieves at this time.
Right now ppl are playing Ranked for the following reason.
1.) Champion Title Achievement (150 Ranked matches win on 1 class = achievement points and a title.)
2.) It doesn’t have Colliseum and the Pirate Map so if you want to practice on the ranked maps or just tired of Colliseum or the Pirate Map this is for you.
3.) Lesser Premades queue in Ranked. Because Ranked has a longer queue time, premades farming for glory/rewards tracks use unranked instead.
4.) Lesser D/C trolls. Trolls who like to afk or d/c when their team starts to lose tend to not queue on the longer line lol.
Unranked counts as rated for the champion titles.
Competitive Warrior, Ele, Mesmer, Ranger, Engineer, Thief
Unranked players are 10~% worse on average and sometimes 40% worse than ranked players. But you can also play the achievment maps in unranked. So farm achievment maps on your worst classes and play ranked for git gud.