8.2 PVP Main - need feedback

PVP Arenas
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Hey All,

I’m a PVPer I almost never do PVE content. I have the following toons:

MM Hunter
FDK
Warrior
Rogue

I like to do RBG’s and I do some PUG arenas. Due to RL stuff I just don’t have the time to gear up my toons, I need to pick one.

I’m in a great PVP guild and do RBG’s pretty regularly, sometimes I jump into PUG RBG’s. I cap my conquest every week. I do arenas with random peeps. I’d like to push some rating this season.

Need some help in picking a main. I like all of the classes that I play so I don’t have a favorite spec as far as playstyle goes. I guess out of all my toons MM hunter is cool, but I feel MM is so weak in arenas.

With that said, 8.2 has some changes… which toon should I main

Thank you in advance!

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Dillon is gonna let us know what is strong here in the next few days after he tests stuff on TR. Not sure how his feedback will translate to RBG’s , but from what I have seen and know about RBG’s I’d feel like FDK would be a safe choice.

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the answer is always rogue :wink:

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Considering I have prolly a handful of rogues who refilled rogue last season to 2600+ and still DR kidneys I think rogues safe

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First things first, scratch warrior off the list.

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If you want to team fight, warrior and dk. If you want to sit bases, rogue or hunter.

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I’d prefer to team fight in RBG’s… I’m not a fan of Unholy.

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Havent rbg’d as much this season, so im not sure how warriors are perceived but before they were wanted for their ms, disruptiveness on casters and execute.

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I feel like Warriors bring Sharpen blade and Execute… very valuable in RBG’s and arenas.

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Quality expected responses in this thread. I was not disappointed.

Honestly, I’ve always known rogue to be strong in every season no matter the spec. Warrior is a strong solid as well, but definitely requires gear and knowledge of positioning vs teams. MM is… not great due to all your damage requiring you to stand still except for rapid fire. FDK you will most likely always be trained due to lack of defensives in comparison to Unholy.

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I’m on the fence… Leaning to warrior… Fury & Arms are fun specs.

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Warrior is a wash until next xpac, trust me.

There’ll be people in here to tell me I’m wrong, but Arms down to its very core is a bust in BFA. The deep wounds mastery is awful, along with being the only spec with no healing/absorption of some sort.

You can make it work, but why? Just roll a monk/DK/ret/DH and have a much better time.

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I just played all of my toons to unlock the neck essence. I decided I don’t want to play my rogue…

I don’t want to play unholy. FDK is just ok.

MM hunter or Warrior is what I narrowed it down to… need more opinions.

Thanks.

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Well, you picked the worst 2 options possible of the ones you have available. But out of those 2, warrior is probably better.

Been hearing alot of horror stories about hunter lately.

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Warriors are no where as bad as warrior players think they are lol

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Considering we’re 10/12 on class rep at 2200+, I beg to differ.

Hunters have it the worst for sure.

Demon hunters are supposedly below us as well, but I have a theory on that. And that is, not as many people play demon hunters at the moment.

So I’d venture to say if the DH population was proportionate to everyone else, warriors real place for representation at 2200+ would be 11/12, only ahead of hunters.

But that’s throwing around certain circumstances and I won’t do that, so I’ll stick with 10/12.

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tfw prot warrior and resto druid bleeds hit harder than feral druid bleeds

pepehands

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Compared to what? Warriors are abysmal right now outside of playing with a very good healer. That very good healer would do better bringing just about any other melee dps. As far as BGs go warrior feels like hot garbage as you will spend the majority of them in some root or being kited and blown up from 40 yards away. Its a frustrating class right now as you lack the ability to do good single target dmg. Once and awhile I can pad bg numbers with blade storm and sweeping strikes but its almost meaningless dmg.

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Warriors aren’t that bad, damage is good but we need something that helps us survive a bit. I have a feeling the Combat and Strife + Rage Heal will help us greatly.

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We’re certainly not good. Far from good, in my opinion.

And I’ll say again like I have many times before, our damage is not good. It’s back loaded into a bleed.

Next time you log on go to where ever alliance duels. I want you to get 2 Overpower stacks, CS your target, pop all your CDs, and then MS them. Come back here and let me know the results.

My point is MS, Slam, Execute, OP, etc. are not punishing enough at all. We can top damage charts all day, but when 20%+ of that is a bleed (A broken bleed at that, by way of losing damage every time we refresh it) does it really mean anything?

I would much rather take that 20% damage from being a bleed and put it back into our MS, Execute, etc.

It’s like affliction locks. I can log on my lock in greens, run around a BG, and throw corruption and agony on everything I see. I can top the damage meters, easy. But did I actually threaten anyone? Probably not.

You can look at raid logs and tell our damage isn’t okay. If we’re bottom feeders in PvE DPS, what makes anyone think our damage in PvP is okay?

But the elephant in the room is Arms is the only spec with no active/passive self healing and/or absorption. That’s the biggest issue.

Anyway, like I said, you can make it work. I have, because I refuse to not main my favorite class. But man, it’s pretty low being a warrior currently. The path of least resistance points toward almost any other melee class.

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