i might be a huge exception on this, as ive stated since tbc that i never cared about chasing some cosmetics over frustrating gameplay that its not fun, specially how i feel about arena, never changed in 15+ years, im glad SOME ppl have started to realize just how lame and boring exchanging cooldowns in arena is (without taking away how much mastery and skill it takes to play it at end game, i just do not enjoy the game mode, therefore i don’t play it, therefore i don’t get better, and its been the case since tbc, and now that the vault for pvp is gone, i don’t even feel forced to q and tank soloshuffle to cap honor or sit lfg for rated bg honor caps anymore)
the only reason I am not queueing rbg solo, is mostly personal about how i push my own content and enjoy playing with engi/toys and so on, and for how i play mage, i think id enjoy it 50/50 on rbgsolo while i enjoy it like, 70% on normal, i go literally by the number, more fun, more reason to play
i don’t need to chase numbers, and often in normal bg im playing with or agaisnt r1 all the game, even on higher mmr games in rbg solo i never had the feeling that EVERYONE was playing good, its often 2-3 ppl trying, and the rest is just there to either break ccs, don’t call incs, ghost bases randomly and so on
im still a believe that it comes down to core class gameplay and design, overwhelming time spent in ccs and unable to actually play your character, but tbh this is also one of the seasons where my enjoyment even for pve is just not there, idk what they doing, tww is solid, but the game is somewhat bad … shurg
yeah ive literally been in lobbies against AWC and rank 1 players even at 1800 rating
but i think that was before the MMR adjustments
i agree rating system is terrible
for me i cant play without being rewarded otherwise i feel its pointless, i have too many mounts and tmogs i dont care for so i like to chase the harder to achieve ones
Fomo drives me to play
but back in TBC and WOTLK i was the same as you , i would que random pvp just for the fun
i think its largely due to me growing up as a person and playing other games that i find more fun to " casual pvp "
of course now and then i still play random Bgs if i need to, iv bumped into you a few times on alts
the only way i could see they could incentivized random BGs , if they add more achievements to it
ive already got battle master title and khan and bloodthirsty … literally nothing else to achieve in randoms
Not really anymore with rewards being bound to rating.
In one season 2,4 could be top 0,1% and the other it could be top 10%.
Thats the problem with rating tied rewards and why it should be moved back to % based rewards.
Top 1,5% in 2s being Rival is a joke, dont you agree? Elite (2400) rank is top 0,002% , you cant tell me thats intended design and while 2s is a extrem case with even more deflation. It highlights the problem and where it will lead over time
but what was different than now? in Wotlk dk grip you hearthstrike dead
and as a new player u dont had resilience for a long time, means Warri charge u dead, hunt chimera shot dead, rogue ambush dead etc
idk what was different, except less micro cc, more consistent dmg and gear had higher value, and the honor grind was more painful when u started mid season
I know many people who have left retail to bang out classic fresh. Mainly looking to get to 60 then play last bit of the season, so will see how it goes.
This expansion is phenomenal. PvP is unbelievably great at the moment. You guys complain here but you all show the truth by staying subbed. You all love this game and the current state of PvP, thats why you all are still addicted to playing the game every day. You all love current state of PvP subconsciously, but people are people and they have to complain about anything…
So guys, dont cry, everything gonna be good just log off the forum log into the game and enjoy the current state of PvP. Oh and also enjoy being in CC half of the game
which is bad because they had to nerf outliers not buff the weak ones
there are many non meta dps specs which now struggle to win with eg mw because it just doesnt heal them and then mw casually wins vs them because non meta dps specs cant do much
ready for all the “BUT THERE ARE SO FEW HEALERS”
yeah check the numbers hpala and disc are #1 and #2 most played specs in the entire shuffle
Because this game is so poorly balanced, I used to enjoy playing random 2v2 double dps comps that were odd now double dps just isn’t viable, playing with a healer is boring af too in 2s
the issue isnt there being stunned, the issue is there dying in a single stun whilst a rogue randomly pops clos immunity (as an example) normally youd be punished for wasting “defensives” but you dont in this day and age
First of all as a wotlk player myself I can tell that what you said about heart strike makes no sense, in fact no one even play blood dk in pvp there. More to say, any dk spec does not one shot anyone on wotlk 3.3.5
Second what I want to say is that there is absolutely no outdoor right now. Fast fly mounts and the possibility to cast it even if you get hit in process put final nail into the coffin of outdoor pvp.
Plus no reason to fight in outdoor when nodes sharding and you can respawn in few seconds anyway.
There is only one arch-reason why numbers decline and that is:
Current state of disc priests and hpala… one simply cannot have game where there os only 2x healers viable.
Description: They are so powerfull that other healers are cannon meat for them, game versus them feels exactly 3 versus 4 if you are not one of them. They alone cannot drive healthly que times.
Solution: Nerf them or buff underperforming healers, this is somehting which shoud be done yesterdey, whetever you decide there shoud be 0 hesitation, 0 mercy, 0 respect, this MUST be done.
In the end of day AWC with only 2 viable healer is shame and somehting which worth 0 respect !
But did you consider that Rdruid has cyclone and disc was Z- Tier all it’s existence before, forcing disc mains to perform like young gods all their life ?
What? What cyclone? This spell work wonders only for low rattings later people know to punish it and its big risk play… its most counter playable spell in game. On which cyclone you guys speaking of? its is not same if cyclone is from boomkin or feral those are problematic because no element of counter play. To be brutaly honest, if your team dont know how to punish resto druid cyclone, you not deserve ratting anayway pure skill issue
Disc priest was never in bad state, even when things are bad for you RMP was always viable so you dont know what pain is…In other hand resto druid have unplayable seasons.
Also healer balance state bring shame to AWC… no one respect deeds done by only 2 viable healers… they are just obvious sight how game was broken and not worth a respect.
Lets be realistic, priest have been always good, if not dpriest, then hpriest + RMP
In DF somehow Xaryu and his mom was playing dpriest. Did not play all the time maybe meta shifted after.
I somehow was active in DF when Dpriest was dominating and now again, I need a break from dpriests:d
