This is my personal opinion and all i wanna say that inflation is healthy for an already dying game mode. People get rewards and actually enjoy queuing. Participation last season was great and this season it will probably be even better. Instead of complaining about it que and enjoy it.

TLDR: Inflation = good complaining = cringe

Because I get with all other classes if you use a 4 sec stun instead of their 5 sec one you're risking causing a second cataclysm, but how is it decided between rogues who rages at who?

Did I miss something. I thought I read they were adding this map back. I haven’t seen it yet and I’ve played over 100 games.

Going to preface this by saying I think rating inflation is a good thing. Last season was genuinely fun with participation and people hitting new goals. More people playing PvP and actually feeling like they can climb is healthy for the game.

THAT SAID, some of y'all need to check yourselves.

Hitting your first Glad/Legend (now 2300) in a massively inflated season does not mean you suddenly became Pikaboo. Peak 1800-1900 for five expansions, inflation goes crazy, you suddenly hit a new rating, and now every BG/Arena loss comes with some toxicity about how everyone else is playing wrong. Rating is relative to the season. If the entire ladder shifts upward by hundreds of points, your new peak doesn't automatically mean your skill increased by the same amount.

Keep the inflation. Keep the rewards attainable. Keep people queueing.

Just maybe leave the ego deflated. Thank you for coming to my own TED Talk, ready for the downvotes.

Why are all the R1’s etc using high Tauren? Is it because of the stun racial?

I can't decide on a healer for the season (and whats generally good longterm)..I'm open to any except pally/evoker. Leaning towards druid or priest. I do a mix of arena and bgs, so one decent in both would be nice.

I was playing around with druid in bgs the other day and its fun, but i feel like I cant come close to priest/mw hps and I die easily when focused compared the immortal priests I see running around. But the speeeeed.

I main shaman in pve but it seems lackluster in pvp from my testing. I mained mw last season but I'm not sure bout fistweaving in pvp so those two are further down my list but

I feel like i've seen posts complain about just about every single part of the game, but I don't think i've ever seen a single mention of this abomination of a talent. Even googling "hallowed ground reddit", nothing.

Am I missing some kind of counter play or how is perma team-wide freedom for the entire game not being talked about daily?

Honestly that one pvp talent is the single most obnoxious ability I’ve ever faced. I'd give mages 4 more barriers and invisibilities, I’d give demon hunters old blade dance dodge back and 99% dodge on blur, I’d give hunters feign death removing all dots back, I’d bring back shadowlands convoke and divine toll, I’d literally do anything to have that one ability removed.

I honestly don't understand how to play the game when the enemy cannot be slowed, is there some trick I’m missing?

For the 0.02 seconds of each game when they don’t have Hallowed Ground active they have freedom to cover it.

It's made even worse because the Jinx pvp talent is bugged so it still consumes soul shards but doesn't apply agony or corruption if you cast exhaustion on someone that can't be slowed, but even on other classes it's so fucking terrible to play against.

Please tell me there is some magic method everyone is using to deal with it so I can stop tilting off the planet every game against a ret

Is shiv still a thing for assassination? Do i need it or ist enough when my Poison slows enemies? And how about slice and dice? There is no rotation guide that mentions it.

Losing hope in getting anywhere in this mode. I'm literally 8-21 right now. Someone talk me off the cliff right now. I feel like gaining rating is hopeless when your team mates are clueless. I play sub rogue. I've lost my role a few times not claiming I did not mess up but man this is tough.

I’m confused!

Last round suddenly stopped. Decided the last round was a draw without anyone dying!

Total game lasted: 12m and 40sec

Last round lasted: 1M and 38sec

Is this a known bug or am I tripping?

I’ve been bouncing between the two specs while levelling and almost at 90 now with no real preference. Devourer seems to have better survivability but havoc in the last couple of levels now seems to be bursting better.

I know it’s low level so not fully reflective of max level PvP but what are people’s experiences both in terms of which is more fun to play in 2v2 and of course which is the better in terms of power/effectiveness?

Is there a way to test the getting Precog buff, to check my UI setup? Or is it necessary to pvp someone.

Before the patch my focus in arena had a color depending on his class but now they all are red. I have bbf and looked everywhere i could to fix it and nothing. Im hoping someone has an answer for this here

A lot of PvP guides are useful, but some of them make getting into arena feel harder than it needs to be.

I wanted to make something more straightforward for BM players, especially newer players or people coming back, so I put together:

Full BM PvP guide:
https://youtu.be/XO0UaAhjxgk?si=mvmx04jVFzhuqTBW

BM 2v2 guide:
https://youtu.be/y6KL4xlnbnw?si=aP5Vo8r9ZgPueQCG

I tried to keep them focused on the practical stuff: what to run, what to press, how to approach matchups, and how to make the spec feel less overwhelming and more approachable when first entering pvp.

If anyone checks them out and still has questions, I’m happy to answer them here too.

So I mainly play PvE and there’s a lot of aspects with wow PvP/arena thats just not enjoyable to me personally (but that’s another post).

However, last few seasons/expansions I’ve knocked out some elite sets (1800 rating) every now and then, and I genuinely had really fun playing the inflated season 1 of midnight cuz it gave me the motivation to try new classes in solo shuffle that I never else would try.

going into season 2 I want to obtain a few elite sets again, and I’m curious about what time of a season is usually a ”better time” to earn 1800 rating. Is it usually early in the season, or rather late in the season?

Thanks for any input

Was in a stream today and the topic of removing racials from the game came up. After a bit of back and forth, I left the conversation agreeing with the removal of racials. The main reason is some racials give you a clear advantage in PvP which is why we see Gnome warriors, and every other class Night Elf or High Mountain Tauren.

I was curious what the community here thought about it?

as title suggests. I saw a venruki video where he said the latest patch will be the blizzcon one as blizzard generally doesnt change anything during the tournament.

what's the meta looking like like I know resto druids look pretty good.

my only hope is we dont just have the same comps like last season with rmp.

I just came to the conclusion that rdruids are OP or cooked. No middle ground. 20% nerf in swiftmend plus 5% less stats (all healers) plus dps now having their conquest weapon equals huge nerf for us.

Rdruid had good recovery (actually the only one) with how swiftmend worked but now it’s not enough. 4% blanket healing buff is nothing to alleviate swiftmend nerf and the other new factors such as: again, conquest weapon on dps and 5% less stats to all healers.

I was sitting at 1900CR with positivo win ratio. Now I’m at 1600 in 5 sessions.

Ready for the down votes and the usual “git gud” lmao.

I’m done with pvp.

Imagine a feral druid (let's say wildstalker) and a rogue (let's say fatebound assa) are out doing a sparks quest and end up hunting each other in warmode for fun.

What does the rogue do, what does the druid do, how does it play out?

Assume equal skill and gear ilvl on each side.

Assume that both are going to try very hard to ensure that the other player dies, but will bail if they are about to lose (assuming that is possible).

If wpvp shenanigans are used (consumables, special engineering stuff), mention it specifically.

Finally, who is your money on?

I'ive seen some post, of ppl complaining about retpal being untouched in today patch, being the reason to this frustrating and long meta. So i was thinking: why not buffing some classes to reduce arena duration, maybe some classes that are dealing very low dps?

For example DkUh rn is so weak, why not creating a cd's that every active pet reduce damage taken by 5%, and they leech the 80% of the auto-attacks they deal?

And also they could balance the very low pressure giving death coil a cool effect, we can call it Mortal Strike, that reduce heals in arena. Maybe 25% would be good.

And, i think, that they deserve something like shattering thrown. Let's make a talent that every ghoul sent with festering strike can destroy bubbles and immunities. I think that this way the meta should be fine!

In the end, all we need is taking away from mages blinks and iceblock (let's give them a feign death) and meta should be okay.

Long live to Reddit balancing committee

i know i can get them on murlok but i don't wanna accidentally get an experimental/meme build, thanks in advance guys.