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Heyllo !
I questionned myself about two things recently:
- Why normal food regenerating health only are not allowed in ranked PvP ?
- Why thereâs some design like outlaw rogue designed around potion but not allowed to use potion in ranked PvP ?
Before starting letâs see items that regenerate health or mana and do they work in ranked PvP :
1- Normal Food :
Normal food that you often see in vendor from innkepper or other NPC or cooking food that you create = we will call it " normal food ". Normal food are disable in ranked ( if people know since when donât hesitate to tell it). Only in open world or in non-ranked PvP you can eat normal food and if thereâs a âWell fedâ buff on that food on non-ranked you get benefit of it.
2- Well Feed :
Well Fed buff along food are disable in ranked.
Exept for pandaren :
Pandaren got a racial that double the well fed buff when eating food. For Ranked PvP in order to balance racial due to their racial "Epicurian "
Blizzard given to some vendor the item Pre-Mixed Pot of Noodles, a drink :
This give to pandaren 1% of versality as racial ( included Epicurian racial) and his row stats change depending on the extension to keep being 1% versality.
This item can be bought to some vendor in Ashran (and 1 in nagrand but go ashran 
)
3- Drink
Some drink are usable in Ranked PvP. The requirement is for the drink to only regenerate mana. With Shadowland Drink got a change on how fast they will regenerate mana : It start very slow and as long you stay drinking the faster you will regenerate mana.
Article here :
4- Mage Food
Mage food are usable in Ranked PvP
It is the only food able to when you eat to regenerate your health faster, and also Regenerate mana.
This has been before an argument why you should have taken a mage into your group. I will explain more later why it has been.
This food is also one of the part of the success of the double DPS Rogue / Mage : double dps that can eat food to regenerate their health.
5- Bandage
Often forgotten , Bandage are very good even when with a healer.
This is useable in Ranked PvP !
It allow you to channel a healing to your target ( you or a friendly player close to you), if the target take damage, the healing is stopped.
This is useable by everyone. Too much forgotten but can lead you to win with some class that canât self healing versus a class that can heal himself !
Contrary to alchemist potion in 9.2 patch, bandage does not have his version updated for 9.2 .
6 - Potion
All potion are disable in ranked PvP
including alchemist potion instant or channeled.
However 2 class potion are enable : Healthstone (Warlock) and the Mana Gem ( Arcane Mage).
Even if the Outlaw Rogue have a talent increasing when using a healing potion itâs value, it does not allow him to use it in ranked PvP.
So to come back to the topic, why i am questionning the food and health potion being disable in PvP ?
So for well fed food i understand that all different class and spec got different influation on secondary stats and we donât want to take for each arena food that will cost us gold.
However for normal food only regenerating health i donât see why.
So i looked a bit for double DPS how do they succeed , and upon many comp one come in PvP player in mind more than other : RM.
So the thing about RM ( Rogue Mage) is that the mage is allowed to create food and able to give it to his rogue ( or any other class/spec) and regenerate health.
Since the mage got more way to absorb damage and tank. Many player tend to focus on the rogue. When the rogue is low on Health, he will try to escape combat and go eat the mage food to then come back to the fight while the mage stop the ennemy from stopping the rogue eating.
And that is what it got my attention : The reason why Rogue Mage succeed more easely than two dps without healing spell is thank to the food. The food is a great way to allow a double dps after a beat back to come back to the fight faster.
And sadly in 2V2, thereâs a lot of time where healer are missing in 2V2 because thereâs only 5 healers avaible in the game when thereâs way more dps specialisation avaible.
So to balance in LFG , Why not instoring back normal food for everyone as the same in shadowland Bandage as been introduced ?
We saw that introducing bandage didnât make double dps OverPowered, and i donât think normal food will make them neither.
It will also balance the issue between the dps hybrid and dps without healing spell, making it more balance in term of 1V1 situation in ranked PvP allowing the dps without healing spell to instead to run for 5 mn to wait back his health to full to just 30 seconds and the combat restart again making the arena with more action than waiting for basic regeneration health to come back again.
If you play Troll also i would like to get your experience about health regeneration with your racial and do you feel difference in ranked PvP with your health regeneration racial and when you donât play troll, and if no do you still think that normal food introduction in Ranked PvP will kill Troll racial ?
Well Here was why i am questioning why not allowing normal food into the ranked PvP.
What is your opinion on it ?
Should normal food must be allowed in ranked PvP ?
Will it kill Troll and Zandalari troll racial ?
Should class that canât heal themself without dealing damage get rework instead and get their own press for healing button ?
Will introducing normal food will end the supremacy of hybrid dps in Double dps and let place to class that donât have healing spell ?
Tell me what you think