Other games with rated arena

PVP Arenas
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Arena/PvP used to be an in-game culture/lifestyle that was mostly separated from PvE content. I’m sick and tired of:

  • Being forced to PvE in order to successfully PvP
  • Weekly insults (chest)
  • RNG on RNG on RNG factor
  • OP corruptions as passive, defining abilities
  • non account wide Essences and neck level
  • Facing 465+ ilvl PvE gods with BiS corruptions and trinkets om 1400-ish rating

I’am by no means a PvP god, just somebody who likes arena and used to be somewhat decent (2K+ rating in wotlk).

I really want WoW arena to be good, and I want to play, but the amount of frustration is too much.

Are there other MMO games out there with a similar, WoW-like setting that include rated arena PvP? But ofc with better design.

Thanks in advance.

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Not really no, and if you think wow is grindy and imbalanced youre in for a rude awakening when it comes to the asian MMO’s. Theres no other worthy alternative if youre talking about arena. Some other MMO’s have more interesting world PvP

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I know Asian MMO’s are a lot more grindy and stuff. The thing is that WoW PvP gearing feels incomplete, and gimmicky. Getting 445 gear out of conquest cap while getting 460 gear out of a chest feels kind of off. Same goes for the random reward frequency and ilvl after a win.

The arena concept is great, and the execution was once near perfect (PvP vendors). Shame they ruined it.

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GW2 has “rated” arena, it’s basically like a cross between AB and arena imo.

And gear isn’t something you need to grind for. You can start rated at level 1 IIRC. Although if you’re brand new, you’re probably going to have a rough time for a few weeks until you understand what stuff like Mesmer actually do lol.

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I can relate. I’m undergeared with 455ilvl but it’s a joke that you need to face against 465-470ilvl even around 1.4k rating.

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There’s Battlerite.

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If you would only do arenas and maybe a tiny bit of M+ you will be hard stuck at 455 because getting 1.6CR+ is way harder to achieve if you face 465+ PvE gods.

PvE players get rewarded in arena for spamming heroic/mythic raids and +10-15 keys.

PvP players get punished by spending most of their time PvPing.

Only way to compete is by doing at least +10 keys.

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Yeah that’s what i figured, only doing cap for arena and till i hit 460ilvl. Already did m+11 so weekly chest will be fine…hopefully.

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The ilvl will be fine. Wether or not you will have desired corruption is something else. Even getting the right effect doesn’t mean it will be the go-to item, because it also depends on the rank you will get. Getting 465 gloves with R1 or R2 bad corruptions while you have 440 ilvl with a good corruption feels bad.

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I have played many other mmos for a long time like GW2, FFXIV, Destiny 2 (not real mmo) etc. But I always went back to wow for the simple reason, none of these games are anywhere near as good as wow. They definitely did some things better than wow, but when all is considered, wow is a far better game than all of them. I started playing those games mostly when I was disappointed with the wow for some reason, and after a while I always come to the same. Even in this state (the worst exp ever), wow is still the best game.

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not only that but you still need the right stats or your high ilvl still doesn’t do much

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Lol yeah forgot that one even. RNG is killing it.

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