I came back to bfa since i played the first month of the exp. Actually im aiming to get some gear and playing arenas as a feral druid, but i just feel like getting gear is so damn hard and exhausting. It’s not that i want items for 0 effort, it’s about playing hours and hours and not getting ANYTHING. I win arenas and i don’t get items, i just don’t. I won like 15-20 arenas and after winning i didn’t get one single item, not even a ring.
It feels so unrewarding, i just try to farm azerite and scratch some item level. I wanna play pvp, i dont like dungeons or raiding. I liked wow when u had pvp itemization, and u got pvp gear PLAYING PVP. Now i just win battlegrounds and get nothing… honor is an ornament now, conquer needs tons of points to get ONE weekly item that is even lower ilvl than the one im wearing (and got from a random rare).
Why pvp vendors aren’t a thing anymore? PVP feels so unrewarding, spending hours and hours farming rep, and azerite to see that your item level depends on how lucky you are killing random rares.
I know i can raid and get good gear, but who wants a feral druid with low ilvl in a damned raid? PVE feral is lame, pvp feral without items is lame. Do i just give up on this champ?
This exp feels like a low content and uncomplete expansion that keeps u busy by farming useless stuff and spending uncountable hours to get… nothing.
Sorry if my english isn’t the best, im not a native speaker.
Unfortunately that is how it is now, you basically gotta depend on the weekly pvp chest and pve emissaries.
When you finally do get a piece from arena it most probably will be a duplicate or a piece with worse stats.
Check my gear, I’ve only done pvp on this char and the world bosses. Most of my gear is welfare pve gear since it’s so much easier to get gear that way. If I had only equipped gear from pvp i would STILL be wearing 330’s and 355’s in some slots since there is no way to pick what you get from pvp.
They need to bring back the system they had in WOD. You got decent gear for winning your RBGs and Arenas back then. PVP was fun, even if alliance dominated with human racial. And Ashran was great until they nerfed raids, and the rivalry with Hydra was good fun.
What? Human racial was there as the main OP’d trait in PvP the entirety of WOD, so much so that I rarely faced anyone other than other humans in arenas.
All non-humans had to wear a break CC trinket, humans could double down on power trinkets.
No really it wasnt after serveral changes to it ,look im not going to argue with you .
I agree pvp system was better in wod but EMFH was really changed and the faction change went from alliance towards Horde hence the numbers we have now 56% horde to 44% alliance and that change didnt happen purely in legion .
That must have been in a patch at the very end of WOD when they brought in PvP changes in advance of legion, I left after killing Arch. I played Season 1 and Season 2 and EMFH was the go to flavour of the month.
Not having PvP’d so far as I came back to WOW mid season the other thing I am trying to figure out is that you get better gear based on arena rating. Still trying to figure out how this makes a level playing field? Like if you get a head start it sounds like a major advantage. PVP used to always be based on skill and a “level” playing field (leaving racials aside - which I think should be removed from game or available to anyone as a glyph).
Arena was historically a level playing field where only skill counted, now with a ridiculious gearing system based from the off on initital rating, RNG (which might work for PvE but is insane to have in PvP) and with titanforging it isn’t anymore.
Unless you are banging out wins from day one of the season there is no room for catchup as you are straight up behind massively on ilev.
In oreder to gear up you have to log in, play hours upon hours (preferably 10h+ a day) and keep rolling the dice over and over again. Eventually you’ll drop something, after months of repeating you’ll eventually get a retardforge to + over 9000 and you’ll crap your pants with joy (at least according to Ion).
Or you can run a few instances, do a few world quests, then get carried by some pugs in Uldir, find a couple of azerite 370 pieces (HC raid equivalent) in emissary quests and then queue for RNG fest in arenas.
Also drop feral and switch to assa rogue/disco priest as they’re most prominent and powerfull class/spec nowadays. Enjoy the bfa experience.
but the gearing system i agree was fun 
