5 ways to fix arena for MoP

1.) Give us a dedicated, cross server looking-for-group mode for PvP

We had this in the form of the old LFM tab, which was then intentionally removed by Blizzard. On smaller servers this was literally the only way to find arena partners. By removing this, Blizzard basically removed the ability for anyone not on Benediction (or Firemaw in the EU) to find partners. PLEASE RETURN THE PVP TAB!

2.) Give us the ability to also queue with the opposite faction for arenas.

An actually lore compliant choice, and something that makes way more sense to me than Alliance vs Alliance bgs. Furthermore, this would help a lot of the Horde players who struggle to find arena mates because 90% of all people went Alliance.

3.) Let us be able to select our own racials!

Something that will undoubtedly help PvE as well as PvP, allowing racial bonuses to be chosen will prevent further stacking of PvPers on the Alliance faction. No longer are you forced to go human to be competitive, now you can be a night elf or even a troll on the Horde. This would greatly revive the Horde PvP scene like the above suggestion.

4.) Give us a rated Solo-Queue option

Probably the most controversial argument, give people who can’t find partners or at least don’t want to deal with the headache of finding people the option to solo queue arenas. Unlike retail, don’t separate these players into their own queue, but keep them in the rated queue in order to boost participation and keep the ladder healthy.

5.) Bring back Skirmishes

Something that was intentionally removed in OG Cata and didn’t return until many expansions later, skrims were a beloved feature that allowed you to solo-q arenas and test out new UI, practice comps you don’t play, or whatever for no reward. Removing this feature was a mistake in the original MoP and still is a mistake not to have.

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you lost me here. is classic some kind of pserver

no. your third point is the most controversial one

Pservers handled literally almost everything better so no, its not even close. And besides why do you care?

Then go back to pservers

I mean you are posting it in the forums?

You’ve given me no reason other than, paraphrasing, “its a pserver thing.”

Maybe Blizz can learn a thing or two from pservers then. Blizz polish with pserver changes would be better than either.

Did you forget the part that this game is a mmorpg not a moba?

The RPG part died in vanilla. Running around as a night elf in bgs in a horde mask and tabard is already immersion breaking enough, but god forbid I can be a night elf with a double dps trinket.

Just disable racials in arena then if the other idea is too far gone for you. Why should anyone have a combat advantage for something they did at the character selection screen. SoD at least, did well to fix that.

Nope. Game is still an rpg and has rpg elements.

Still removes the rpg part

SoD is a meme

Well thankfully there is no real RP in arena, you are beating the crap out of other two or three people because…reasons vaguely related to gear and prestige. So disable racials and be done with it. Anyway if Blizz really wanted to RPGify things they could give races significant attribute differences like in DnD but thankfully they do not because that would awful for the game.

dont fix what aint broken
mop arena is bis
but ye i like a lot of your ideas

Racial selection is an awesome idea imo, but I doubt they’ll add that

BRING BACK SKIRMS!!!

Pretty much support this entire post

While this is a nice-to-have for sure, we can invite cross-realm, and could use Arena-centric Discord servers to resolve on our own.

The cross-faction and racial selections, I’m not so sure about. I guess I could go either way, but there would probably be some interesting side-effects.

There’s one in Retail. I would vote against this, as I don’t think it encourages group play.

Are there no skirms in MoP again? Ugh…
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