Arena needs spell batching or the meta is tarnished

[Xjum-netherwind]

Sadly, TBC Classic Arena was botched.

Many mechanics were broken and I assure you that most if not all are blamed by the absence of spell batching. It may be difficult to understand if you’re unfamiliar with the game’s engineering, but it is an undeniable truth.

However, it’s not too late to save Wrath, which is wrongly glossed over as non-competitive. In remains the most and only popular competitive arena scene amongst private servers, and forever has been the most popular expansion for Arena.

There’s a laundry list of details and issues that arise without spell batching.
Much of this was discussed in 2018.

PvP needs spell batching or the meta is tarnished

If you don’t know what spell batching is, it’s the way the game processed spells before WoD. Spells were processed every server tick instead of ASAP and it’s what let two Mages polymorph each other, two Rogues gouge each other, two Priests fear each other, and so on. While it’s true that it was originally design because of technical limitations, it was kept all the way until WoD because of the positive effect it had on game play, most notably PvP. In PvP it gave you options that are not availa…

In the arena, what I predicted came to pass.
A tick rate is the premise of the entire competitive game.

To anyone out there at Blizzard, I implore you to resolve this.
Don’t ruin yet another one of your classics.