Reviewed 11.2 announcement, specifically PvP changes:
Several PvP talents will be updated with the content update; players will also be able to undertake a new World Quest to vanquish their foes on Vanquisher’s Wake island. This new point of interest is a perfect spot to hang out for those seeking to go toe-to-toe in some outdoor PvP battles.
Someone went on the PTR to test the new zone. It’s a small, tiny portion of the map with some mobs and 1 simple world quest. Every zone from DF and TWW have had these tiny areas of the map being PvP with a simple WQ, why is this being advertised as content?
Also, why is PvP talent updates being advertised as content? They’ve already done some PvP talent updates which are literally just small numbers tuning on them, nothing new or different, and even then, numbers tuning has been done on weekly and/or during non-major patch releases.
I get that some might say “wELl PvP iS a MinIGamE!” and that just isn’t true, it is advertised as a core pillar of the game (alongside but not as big as M+ or raid) and does receive new things like specific colored elite sets, mounts, tuning, and major gameplay features such as rated battleground blitz, solo shuffle.
11.2 has nothing to look forward to for rated content play (those prot paladin shuffle changes are a massive W though thank you!), could you at least re-visit the Astral Gladiator’s Fel Bat appearance and update the colors on it to match the rest of the void theme/color scheme this patch? I and many others would be happy with just that alone.
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New armor sets, new tier bonuses, and some pvp only changes
That’s pretty much all pvp needs
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You misread that line, lemme see if I can help…
You are confusing that “with,” word some how, in this case it means in addition to the content which is some island for pvp.
I hope this helps. 
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They’ve been ramping up PvP content after years of neglect. It’ll take some time.
But if I recall correctly there’s been at least the new battleground and this new world PvP zone this expansion. I don’t remember if anything was added for 11.1.
I’m in favor of there being more for PvP enjoyers. I’d love more incentive to jump in occasionally.
Oh noes they didn’t add a reskinned sandbox with pillars for PvPers to hump and/or run around in!!!
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PvP is a minigame, because the vast majority of players play PvE.
That is the answer to your question. There are not enough players like you to justify the cost of increased manpower to PvP systems.
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This is not a new world pvp zone. It’s a small portion of the map that all zones in the last 2 expacs have that is associated with 1 WQ. I would say what they are saying is borderline misleading, there is nothing special about this area.
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Microsoft continues to lay off employees, there aren’t enough people, and they’re still releasing new content at a frantic pace. I get the feeling that there isn’t even a PvP development department anymore and they’re just releasing standard stuff without even trying to change or improve anything 
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Why are you complaining? This is the occassional bone that get’s thrown to the PvP community. You should appreciate it.
No need to say more then right?
No, it never was. Fishing is more of a core pillar of the game than PvP.
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This seems like the standard PvP update every time.
We got 12 seconds of the interview and I loved every single one of em.
In TWW we got
New Battleground
Rated Blitz (Kinda started as brawl in DF Season 4)
New Arena
Vicious Bloodstone to make tons of gold through PVP
PVP rewards tied to Solo Shuffle and Blitz.
We also got some fixes in unrated about addon abuse and premade queue dodging. Currently there’s also reports of blizzard having broken the 5 man queue synch premades, or at least made it much harder to synch.
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The PvP neglect was a massive problem that needed to be addressed many years ago
Now there’s just nobody left to make content for anymore so who cares
If you still PvP while the developers shovel you garbage for years you almost deserve it at this point to be harsh
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As much as that might be true for me, I suspect those who enjoy PvP won’t be very sympathetic to that sort of talk.
I would prefer that new PvP world content stay off my PvE map. There’s the whole of warmode for devs to drop an overlay ontop of.
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it took you this long to realize that pvp is a minigame? should honestly end the cosmetic rewards, substantial amount of cosmetics being wasted on such a niche community at this point.
It is a tricky one - I generally don’t think PvP gets a lot of love but also generally doesn’t need it. People are still gonna love the existing BG maps.
I would like a new Epic BG at some stage though, feels like it’s been left out.
Epic BGs are rough. 4 Epic BGs, 2 of them are vehicle based from Wrath and people barely fight one another in Alterrac.
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Nah, all the cool rewards most people can’t get are cool and pvp is fun. 
Killing hordies is incentive enough!