3v3 and LFG for Arenas is outdated

PVP Arenas
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I play healer, I have mainly played Hpriest / Rdruid the end of this season, for the past few months.

I decided to skip out playing on MoP, despite buying the boost for MoP on two US accounts.

I play the same healers on alt accounts, including EU region, and the same issue is apparent.

As a healer, no matter which region I play on, my Solo Queues for PvP are nearly instant. Its no surprise that healers are in high demand, to allow for queues to happen. This is, until more healers play the game, or Blizzard decides to add healer bots, AI follower type characters, to heal and allow quicker queues for DPS.

The reason Solo Queue matters, is because without solo queue, the game is in fact ‘dead’.

LFG listings are terrible. Even as a healer, forming my own group. Its very difficult to climb with partners you find in LFG. The synergy is never good at the start of any session, but the problem is people leave groups after 1 to 2 games, and to no fault of anyone, it then just puts players right back into listings.

The other issue is ratings, players who are 2100, 2200, aren’t going to play games with someone at 2000, 1900, 1800, even if they are fully geared and all. Its just a disparity amongst the ratings. The idea of Challenger, Rival, Duelist, Elite, etc is great, but there is no way to specifically queue into that and progress without luck on your side it seems.

The game is pushing players away, not because of class balance and mechanics, but the system of finding players in your same category, your same ratings, or finding people near or above your ratings to help you climb, there needs to be improvements.

People want to play 3v3 for the mount, the clout, the titles. Something Solo Queue Shuffles doesn’t reward as of yet. Please change it so solo queue can have more end season rewards and titles, illusions, mounts, flying and ground, etc.

The LFG listings to find groups needs a huge improvement, or the ability for players to solo queue into 3v3 2v2 rbg’s etc. This could be the new tech moving forward to increase pvp activity, even for healers.

Thank you.

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The problem are players, everyone think they are good at the game and belong higher than they are.

People always Blâme other people instead of watching their own gameplay/mistakes.

Also in 3s people want to play exclusively with broken class/comp it doesn’t help, while a tier comp is OK to push.

I’d say as healer it’s easier to find mate, you can just q up with anybody really fast and get a btag list pretty fast.

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The game won’t be dead if they remove shuffle, it will go back to pre-DF style grouping.

People found out that the healer role isn’t fun and they have made no changes to MMR or how fun the healer role is. The mode is fast-food style 3v3. Really, its an introduction to PVP for the lonely PVPer and nothing more and should stay that way.

LFG is much more enjoyable as healer, just find a group that has 2 DPS ready to go who know each other. I played rdruid, pres and holy priest to at least 1900 on all of them this season in 3s LFG. Made about 3 battletag friends in 1 weekend when I really wanted to queue.

This is the answer IMO. Solo, duo queue 3s.

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Rated pvp would not only survive but thrive if everyone was forced to que only one rated pvp mode, even if said mode was rated arena (2s/3s) and you had to find people to play with to que.

The only things hurting participation is a split community and the fake inflation system rewarding people for not queuing til the end of the season. (yes additional rewards would also be nice)

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I don’t see why any of the point you provided would be corrected by solo queue.

synergy would be even worst (kinda why SS has 6 round)

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Removing SS would be a death sentence. 3V3 exists today. If the masses wanted to play that mode the option is there but the stats show the opposite

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Why would you bother making a group through lfg when you can 40% winrate to 3k rating in bgblitz? (Not an exaggeration the top players hold mmr hostage and only q at unemployed hours)

In a more serious tone, people really hate admitting it but 2400 in blitz and to a lesser extent now shuffle is very very very easy compared to 2400 in regular arena so why bother whit lfg or making friends

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