Arena in SOD

Meh. Not really any more so than TBC. The difference between pre BG and post BG WPVP in Classic was palpable, and sure the fact that ranking started in P2 before BGs were introduced definitely increased WPVP incredibly, but if you compare WPVP pre-honor (P1, and post BGs), it’s night and day.

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also Dragonflying. let people have fun.

If they add arenas, that’s fine as long as they offer no rewards and don’t balance classes around them. Those are the main issues with arena.

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disagree personally.

Arena is played out in the world or in WSG.

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Keep that e-sport crap out of Vanilla. It killed the game the first time around.

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I would be one hundred percent for this sod Arena would be insane Especially 5v5 I’d be so excited for that blizzard do this add an arena and rbgs.

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I don’t see the need for rating in a SoD Version of Arenas. I believe that they should just be skirmishes that reward honor once a day (to prevent honor farming bots in arena)

Elaborate please.

PvAddons
What an awful system

I disagree imo, i think Rated bgs should be a thing

I think BGs are more classic feel than arena

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Arena suxx in pretty much any mmorpg,
Classes shouldnt be balanced arround 3v3

Also look at wotlk classic, ppl dodge, wintrade, queu snipe, using all kind of exploits.

If u want arena u can play it in retail or wotlk, its more then enough.

Rated battlegrounds would be the only fitting thing for classic, either as pure 10 vs 10 premade or soloque (maximal duo).

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still waiting for any actual reason besides “it doesnt belong”

it’s SoD. Not era. The “that’s not vanilla” thing doesn’t apply here.

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I guess if there are no rewards other than just playing arena because you like it but I enjoy classic PVP because its BG and world pvp focused. This is the only expansion where PVP and Arena aren’t synonymous.

I mean look at participation for PVP in every expac past vanilla. Finding a team before you can even start playing the game is a huge barrier to entry and the ladders are dryer than dust for new blood.

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Hmm I see what you mean, maybe if they do more stuff like ashenvale as world pvp events but it gives honor. Something like wintergrasp. AV used to originally planned as just part of the world and not an instance but it was hard trying to make sure there’s a balance in who shows up. Wintergrasp kinda blends the two. Ashenvale will be the first test for no instanced version.

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I’d be down for rated bgs, or even 5v5. 2s and 3s I think would just be the same comps destroying people.

PvP in the old world is a lot different than arena in the new world, it cannot be balanced in the same way.

Heartbeat resists would be a nightmare of randomness in arena.

Usually the first strike is enough to gain the upper hand in old world pvp; ask any warrior that gets his first melee and a mortal strike on an unsuspecting priest, and as such many classes would have an inherent advantage.

New world warcraft is much more reactive in pvp, while old world warcraft is much more proactive. Being proactive in arena is a very difficult thing to do; it doesn’t mesh well.

Diminishing returns aren’t paired up like they are in new world warcraft, so an arena match could quickly turn into you staring at your character for 90 seconds while your team is murdered.

Arena in current warcraft is built around trading offensive and defensive cooldowns, there aren’t enough on each class in classic, especially since some classes have 30 minute cooldowns.

Changing these things would cause an uproar in both the community of old world and new world warcraft. Old world fans would yell about it becomes new world warcraft, while new world warcraft fans would yell about their pvp being shafted in favor of the old world’s.

Arena did not destroy pvp in the new world warcraft in my opinion. The blame for that rests in war mode.

I despise arena pvp. It attracts the worst, most sweatiest and unpleasant type of gamer. The kind that take games like League and Dota 2 extremely seriously and force your team to surrender if things didn’t go perfectly in the first 10 minutes. I would only be okay with it if the rewards wern’t very good and it was only for a title or something.

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Not a thing any more.

Solo q arena would be dope in sod.

no one even likes ranking or bgs anymore, 99% of the rankers in 2019 vanilla botted av lol

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It’s an extremely unpopular game mode, literally 0 reason to bring it to Classic.