Hello, I would like to discuss the idea of trying arena in phase 3. Ofc this is not something a lot of people would be interested in so lets have a debate.
Why do I think arena could be a good thing to test as the PvP event in p3? - Well I personaly love wpvp, and had a lot of fun in both ashenvale and STV event. But these sorts of event bring a lot of whining from people, they are hard to balance etc. I think trying arena in SoD would solve a lot of these problems, you donât need all sorts of layering mechanics for it, you dont really not to worry about mass lag either. And furthermore it is a more close competetive PvP enviroment which highlights peopls individual skill more. A lot of people either enjoy or hate for example the arena that existed in TBC and WoTLK for multiple reasons. (personally I enjoyed TBC, wotlk arena not so much) But the biggest problem with arenaâs in classic expansions has always for me been that the ââmetaââ is already discovered mostly. The best classes, comps, gear, cc setups etc are already known. They wouldnt be known in SoD. It would be a new meta with all new setups, specs etc. For example we have never before seen mage healer rogue for a 2v2 comp before, that could be fun and interesting. What do you guys think? it could just be a phase 3 thing to test it.
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Sorry mate but no thank you.
Balancing now is problematic and you want them to scale it with arena in factor?
They barely managing to do it now.
It will bring a lot of problems to the game.
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Arena was never really balanced, I think the community is wrong to always whine for perfect balance. WoW never was, and thats a part of why we wanted classic even though we know its not really balanced.
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Arena is nice idea but most comps gonna be shadow or disc priest + mage, boomie or rogue.
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Would be amazing and should be easy enough to implement.
But please no balancing around it or resilience nonsense.
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Iâm absolutely for it, a much more basic playstyle compared to retail not a million micro ccs and 500 specs to know every Important cd itâs a tuned version essentially and being able to understand whatâs going on in the arena instead of having a million WAs to track and display stuff. I think itâs a great idea along with it they should disable any and all combat addons like cd trackers and WAs I feel like this would massively change the game and Iâd 100% come back
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Make a 1v1 duel arena please
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I think adding arena would make all the complaining about class balance a million times worse.
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are you missing hugging pillars?
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I am hoping they add arena and maybe some ânewâ BGs at 60 to spice up end game pvp. For it to work though they will need to get a handle on the damage outputs in pvp and improve class balance somewhat (will never be perfect but regular small nerfs or buffs based on performance data).
If they can do all that it could be the best pvp experience of any wow expansion IMO
Arena was the biggest mistake of TBC and ruined WoWâs pvp to this day.
Even Devâs said back then, that Arena was a bad idea.
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Deffinantly dont agree with that. PvP and arena was one of the things that made WoW extremtly popular. And I think it would take SoD to new player highs.
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No. The peak of WoWâs popularity was in Classic/TBC with fall down with Wotlk. Arena only made most players whine how they class are unbalanced compared to others.
Adding Arena to SoD where class balance is a joke would ruin that game mode entirely.
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I think arena has always been unbalanced. I think the problem came when blizzard tried to balance the game and classes around it. Arena and PvP is a fun and competitive thing, but it should never be what blizzard mainly balances around.
I remember how disappointed I was with arenas. When I started playing Wow, after so much love for Warcraft 1, 2, and 3, The new game was so cool, with the potential to create so many PVP modes. I expected huge battles ALI vs. Horde, like in Warcraft, transfered into WOW (there could be even some dota like BG, some BG emulating the Warcraft strategy game, etc.). But we ended up in the arena, chasing healers around the pillar, often facing the same faction. And that was the only source for the best PVP gear. What a shame.
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But we ended up in the arena, chasing healers around the pillar, often facing the same faction. And that was the only source for the best PVP gear. What a shame.
Thats why i hate Arena and im big fan of Rated Battleground⌠even if RBG grants no rewards.
There is no way around arena if you care about competitive PvP and actually wanna improve at the game, there is plenty of gameplay stuff you simply dont learn by doing bgs/open pvp which results into a huge skill difference between your average bg enjoyer and arena player.
The question here is, does the SoD community even care about competitive PvP / improving at the game? Blizzard could check this by implementing 2v2/3v3 skirmish (just normal skirmish like on wotlk servers) to see if people actually play it, if there is a demand they could add rated arena.
Also just fyi, balancing the game around arena doesnt mean other parts have to suffer, mop had one of the (if not the) best 3v3 balance aswell as the highest amount of ppl playing rated battlegrounds ever. I also think that SoD arena would never be balanced, but then again its a version of vanilla WoW, nothing there is balanced so why not give it a try.
exactly that, most of the people complaining about arena never really played them. There is no balance, but that doesnât mean you canât strive for a more enjoyable experience for everyone, plus, arena is where the skill is.
Arena is fun, challenging, and mostly competitive, nothing bad can come out of arena being availiable to people, if you donât like it, donât do it, but donât try and explain to people why itâs bad or like âitâs going to ruin classicâ, cuz to me this is some prime bs exemple.
Bring arena to SOD pls, big yes
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Arena would be end of SoD
many ppl stop right now because of terrible balancing
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Only if its for fun. Not the main PvP content. Maybe a cosmetic reward like a mount or tabard. Nothing else.
Also dont make it 100% instanced. Let other people see the combat from outside. Like retail DMF cage. Would be a cool addition for tournaments.