Seems the arena community as a whole is really annoyed by the fact that we only had one whole week to get ready for season 1.
A week is simply not enough time to prepare for a new arena season after an expansion launch. Especially given the leveling time, queue times, WG bug, etc.
Could this have really not waited until week 2? The only people who are in favor of a week 1 release are people who have a massive gear gap due to the WG bug that they want to take advantage of.
They are completely aware of the gear gap due to the announcement regarding the hotfix earlier for reducing the cost of honor gear. However most of the complaints would go away if they simply pushed arena season 1 to start during week 2.
I assume phase lengths have already been decided and so delaying arena will make the season shorter, I assume they are pushing towards the lower end for season length to get people out of Naxx and into Ulduar asap.
The quickness is odd. especially since they still have qeueues.
lets get arena and raid going this week too. This will probably end really well.
when some haven’t logged in to play much since before sept 26th.
I feel bad for them. me…I am 20K shy of 73. and not caring lol. last night I got my new steam deck so opted to pure pvp level. 20 minutes for AV? Fine with me…I was playing with the steam deck.
those who care more…yeah, say hello to the wrong end of the stick.
You have to queue though and get as high rating as possible because arena points are awarded based on rating. So you can’t delay. You can’t even just grind out 800 arena points like on retail and be done.
Literally forced to be a punching bag for people who have a huge gap over you.
Who cares, you missing a week is not the end of the world. Start doing arena week 2. OMG you don’t have to be first. You can push rating the last 2 weeks of Arena. You will easily get all the gear by then.
I’m amazed how you supposed PVPers don’t even understand how it works. You getting stuck in low rating has NOTHING to do with you missing 1 week of Arena or even multiple.
And fall further behind?
People who are somewhat serious about pvp must queue arena this week or be 1000 arena points behind?
Yeah I got smashed today by some full geared team took advantage of wintergrasp bug, and rating carry over? But what can we do?
If that was me, I’d have taken advantage of it also.
I think the problem is really in how things are being “handled”.
Buggy game and you exploit/take advantage - no worries! Fix them up later!
Get reported for chat? Instant 10 day ban - if you’re not in the wrong, ticket it! Fix it up later!
I think older pvp hasn’t traditionally had a “grind” before you started arena, but the game has evolved into a perpetual min-max. Nobody wants to queue without pre-bis gear because it gives them a perceived even playing field.
Fair enough play the game how you want, I’m personally grinding with my garbage gear. I’ll be behind week 1? Week 2? But by week 3 I’ll be caught up in the “arena gear” like everyone else I guess.
You’re such a blizzard shill. Every post of yours is toxic and disgusting.
Were not a week behind starting week 2. People honor capped in WG multiple times in a single afternoon and then was able to buy deadly pieces. Try using some common sense.
Just skip this season. Watch as all the people who exploited their gear have to fight amongst themselves for the like, 3 glad spots that will be available due go a complete lack of arena participation
Yeah, but i cant be bothered dealing with it anymore. If they’re gonna cut arena seasons in half, im not gonna bother wasting time grinding for pvp gear, to play a sub optimal experience early on, just so I can finally play on an even playing field just in time to have to start the whole process over again
they just simply don’t care about pvpers too much.