And they added rating infaltion to MMR because they were adding 2200 weapons in season 6…
Also pointing out how wonky the ladder is isn’t really helping the defense of the ladder not being wonky.
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The ladder is wonky because nobody is playing. Nobody is playing because the balance is bad and arena isn’t fun for the vast majority of the audience. (You know, the people who are clearing normal raids but not heroic, don’t keybind properly, etc) The ONLY times PvP has ever been sustainable is when the majority audience (PvE players, literally all of them good or bad) has AN INCENTIVE to participate in it.
In classic, that was vanilla, rank gear was obtainable, and for a few classes was bis or alternative bis, by anyone who can invest time in bg’s regardless of skill, though the grind was excessive for most people (Covid definitely increased participation though). And TBC, tbc pvp gear was, again, a viable alternative to, or straight up was, bis for pve for several classes and was easily obtainable for most people by just throwing their face at the wall in 5’s for points. The next time you will see PvE players incentivized to do pvp for gear, is legion. Blizzard can ONLY fix the ladder by artificially pumping rating because there is no way to incentivize the playerbase to participate and get pubstomped for gear that doesn’t benefit them and the content they do.
You would actually probably still have a pvp community if blizzard hadn’t decided to murder participation themselves in s1 by making the pvp gear require rating while also starting everyone at 0 in a season where basically everyone who wasn’t rogue/mage wanted as much resil as they could get and honor gear was a hundred hour grind.
Very cope…
You talk about balance yet you had at most 3 of the same comps in wrath that far outweighs any other
Nobody said it was. If you used an ounce of brain power you’d realize that just because you got to 2200 in wrath it doest translate to 2200 in cata cuz of inflation… that’s the point here…
It’s funny you mention the warrior comps in wrath. Yea, Thunder was insane. War/Pal was pretty good too. You wanna know what makes those comps though? Hint, it wasn’t the warrior. Speaking of strong 2’s comps, you don’t wanna talk about disc/feral? That was a pretty fun comp as war/pal. Disc/feral holds w at the hpal and tries to land clone->fear->burns with no other thought in their head because you can never kill the feral. Don’t act like that was somehow better than war/pal. How about we talk about s5, preg/enh? hold w spam purge comp that was r1 viable because of low survivability? You got any other stupid things you wanna say? Arena is bad, end patch results in poor balancing, they don’t put any effort to fix broken specs/comps (wotlk prot/preg pala says hello), and the majority of people still playing have been sweating the game on pservers for the last 10 years.
Which is why they removed titles in 2’s are you just that slow you can’t catch up?
On top of talking about nonsense that’s not even part of the conversation
I’m arguing in favor of the removed titles. Idk why you’re coming at me. 2’s is an awful bracket, has been since TBC. And arena is going to be deflated unless blizzard artificially inflates it because they killed off participation.
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