Did you see the blue post? There’s normally a cap on rating. The season is a long one so rating was reaching the limits. So they raised the cap. This has happened in previous seasons (lots of long ones in history). Yet this is the only one I know of where r1 is going down. People aren’t queing higher or lower. If new or lower players were queing the rating would still go up. Like it did in previous seasons.
Translation. PvP is deader now than it’s ever been. The gear system gives an advantage to the beginning of the season. Everyone else gets screwed.
There’s a reason they did away with it. Blizzard just needs to remember.
Right, but pros don’t play against amateurs.
In WoW the highest level pvp’ers are allowed to go stomp new players.
It’d be like taking someone like Gronkowski and putting him in a highschool game without holding back. He’d put half the kids in the hospital or worse.
Awww did my comment trigger you so much you had to compare me to 0.1% of the wow player base lmao give your head a shake bud just cause the 0.1% of glad players don’t stream themselves in unrated pvp doesn’t mean they don’t hop in there in their free time to trash some kids when they’re sick of rated pvp.
Also When wow started the main reason people wanted to get raid geared was so they could dumpster people in pvp, and that has never changed.
The only way that analogy works is if the rest of the class broke into your room and stomped on you until your eyes were too swollen to see the material.
That’s WoW pvp right now.
High level players can go into unrated BG’s, and take up 33-50% of a team, and just go wild on new players.
You need gear to get gear, but you have to fight those who got the gear already.
It’s a flawed system that discourages late comers and new players from engaging in PvP.
The only thing it does is promote boosting.
Most highly geared players are only in randoms for the honor to upgrade their conquest gear, which requires a ludicrous amount of honor, btw. The system basically requires you to do urnated content for fast honor.
You can actually use a little common sense and go read the thread I mentioned though, you’ll see plenty of people that benefit highly from this system asking Blizzard to remove it.
Studying =/= Competitive PVP.
One is something you do without interference from others.
The other is something where those ahead of you come back to kick your teeth in.
The pro player doesn’t come into the amateur game wearing cleats and pads while all the amateurs have no shoes or pads. That would literally never happen. Yet it happens in wow right now. It makes zero sense.
Game =/= real life
Pros don’t go back to the amateur leagues and trash people for fun or profit in sports.
Harvard alumni don’t go beat up high school kids applying for college.
People in 226 arena gear DO go back and beat up people in quest gear, unrated pvp gear and get rewarded for doing it.
He just doesn’t get it and keeps making bad analogies to defend bad design.
Then again, he has hardly ever pvp’d from the looks of things.
Vocal majority is still a minority. Now that’s not me saying those people you mentioned don’t exist. And I honestly could care less which direction it went.
But there are people who are 220 in BGs who lose their matches.
. And how is that possible? Because the advantage of high ilvl players isn’t secluded to just one team. The advantages (and disadvantages) fall to both teams.
As I mentioned before, people need to stop treating it as a solo dueling experience. Use strategy and communicate. My 220 feline butt cannot come kill that 220 DK who’s about to roll your 197 butt at the Lumber Mill if I don’t know he’s there.
Advantages and disadvantages on both sides. Learn to take advantage of YPUR advantages
