Question for the community a rogue not actively engaging in combat in arenas prolonging the game would it be a bannable offense. An example would be 2v2 both healer dps comps opposite team healer dies now the rogue just sits in stealth the whole time avoid combat when found vanishes and does it again and again and again. the classes in the arena have no active bleed to keep the rogue out of stealth
I’m just guessing, but attempting to avoid PVP in a PVP session might be problematic.
the problem is he can hold the arena hostage for indefinite amount of time
Understood.
Wait, are you still in said arena with this rogue? I’m pretty sure you should be able to report them and just take the L. About all you can do.
Technically it’s still PvP. It has morphed into a battle of wills. You sit in there for days if necessary and make the rogue take the L.
cool cool so avoiding pvp combat in a pvp situation is okay to you?
Don’t think I’ve ever heard of someone getting banned/suspended for this. This is why they added the purple stuff that makes you see stealth/invis. Vanish is a 3 min cd and I think they spawn each 90 sec.
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I dont know if I am late to the conversation but the overall answer is no. You cannot get banned for avoiding somebody in arena.
There a lot of things that this goes along with.
If somebody isnt as geared or skilled enough to take somebody on one on one, a tactic that can be used is to well… run. Ways to catch somebody running is to mount up and chase them and use a movement slowing attack or a ranged spell to hit them.
If they “hide” from stealth they have the shadowsight eyes that spawn which makes them seeable and targetable while stealthed. The games were made this way to counter this from happening.
Unfortunately as people get better at the game and/or figure out “other” options of winning, sadly you run into situations like this.
That being said once both gates open, allowing teams to attack each other. You have 45 min to determine a winner before the match automatically ends and both teams lose. So if you left at 42 minutes, all you had to do was wait 3 more minutes and instead of giving them a win, they also would of lost. I hope this helps!!
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That comes from being part of the community council which is a bit deprecated as I don’t think they’ve added new people to it for around a year.
vanish is every 2 mins with a sub rogue speced into it in cata then you have premed which gives them the set of cool downs all over again under a 5 min CD
That should still give you a couple windows but yea that’s pretty annoying. Pvp always had some type rock/paper/scissors so you’re right with saying that some classes lack the tool to keep a rogue in combat but that seems also per design.
if being afk in AV is a bannable offence in Era then so too is being afk in an arena, the only problem is that AV has a bunch more participants who can report you while arena just has the 2/3/5 people on the enemy team
You can click on the purple crystals.
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Being afk and running around hiding are two different things though. Plus they’re quests in AV so somebody could be avoiding combat questing killing npcs and completely ignoring PvP contact, that’s not bannable.
I would argue running and hiding in an arena because you arnt good enough to win is yes… a very frowned upon tactic but not bannable.
Oh, I’m not active enough by any means. I come to the forums to help out and answer questions from time to time but not nearly enough I bet.
it actually is very much bannable according to the several dozen of the forum and reddit posts saying they are getting banned simply because they didn’t rush Drek/Van in Anniversary and instead did the AV quests, guarded the flags, or even just fought in the middle.
the specific wording blizzard uses is “this account behaved in Battlegrounds and Arenas in a way that detracts from the in-game integrity of World of Warcraft” so running around in an arena stealthed to avoid getting killed hoping that the enemy team just leaves would very much fall into this category
The forum posts in CS I’ve read were all people defending flags, blues even stated that the OP of these threads all did 0 damage and healing. This wouldn’t be the case if they were fighting in the middle or doing quests.
No this isn’t bannable lol
Unfortunate case of “git gud”
You have 2 crystals to see through stealth every 3min
There is no reason you cant find him and kill him with the 2nd set of crystals when his cds are gone from last attempt, like at WORST case this is true
A rogue would never be able to do this to a competent enemy team. I’m sorry lol.
Rogue sitting afk to recup heal and run forever is a tale old as time its not bannable to play out the clock. In fact MANY arena championship rounds were decided by time outs with “who did the most dmg”. LSD2 etc would just pump dmg and be defensive all game till they win. Part of why they added dampening.
I get him being alone is lame but its still him playing for time. Stagger using the eye dont get both at the same time and he has no chance to do what he did to you.
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