soooo it seems that my BDK is banned from solo shuffle …i que but never get a match …not even after several hour in que …ive played as a different spec and get matches after 20 mins or so (which is still too long)…and ive played against other tank classes in solo shuffle…i put in tickets and all the gamemaster would say is to try a different class/spec…im really not liking their queing system …im think its a SBMM system thats screwing all the ques up …in order to “provide a quality gaming experience for everyone” …well its not providing me with any gaming at all…Skill based match making system is complete trash …no wonder the pvp participation is so low …but back to my point …i want to play BDK in rated pvp …but the SBMM wont let me …lame…i wish they would fire all the devs and hire some better people to MAKE WOW GREAT AGAIN…rant rant rant
I think Blood should be banned from solo shuffle. It’s a stupid troll spec for arena anyway that will almost guarantee your team loses every match.
Blizzard doesn’t want tanks to do PvP, because it makes dps think, and they find that hard.
Meanwhile, prot paladins get queued against each other in the healer slot.
Why do prot paladins get to have fun while the other tank specs get shafted and put as a dps?
You got me, I don’t do arena.
Bahahaha.
I didn’t even know that was possible.
It’s crazy that you took that long without finding the option to change specs and move on.
No, tanks aren’t welcome in PVP. For good reason if you think about it at all. You just wanna be the guy who can’t be killed and that’s not a thing in PVP.
The fact that blizzard doesn’t have the creativity to make a place for tanks in PvP isn’t the tanks’ fault.
I’ve actually thought about it a lot more than you have, apparently. It annoys you to have to think.
You probably also complain that you want rogues removed from PvP because they’re annoying. It’s annoying to have to play against classes that aren’t your class, because you have to learn to deal with them, and you consider that an unreasonable imposition.
Rogues are there to annoy you. That’s their function. Tanks are (or at least used to be) in PvP to annoy the entire enemy team at the same time.
I’m sure if you keep working at it you can be successful at getting even more tanks to quit. Maybe Ion will personally stick a gold star on your head if you do that.
Lol yeah, tanks are frowned upon in Solo Shuffle. PvP in general, really, unless it’s Epic BGs.
I was also playing my tank in BG Blitz, because why the hell not?
I got to like ~1500-1600 before I decided I was gonna stop torturing other players, lmao.
Winning is just harder as a tank, especially BrM which blows in PvP.
Play DPS and Heals.
If tanks could be viable in PvP, everyone else would complain. We saw this is previous expansions, and thus they got gutted.
So, you’re relegated to only PvE content, and everyone is tank-starved because tanks can’t do anything else.
Ironic, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, healers can do everything without consequence.
Well, you’re a tank in shuffle… I think it’s a net positive, stop being that kinda guy.
Which is stupid, but it is what it is. Plus we know Blizz wouldn’t know what to do with Tanks.
Tanks by their nature are supposed to take way less damage. That fundamentally does not work in PVP. Unkillable targets close off strategies with NO COUNTER POSSIBLE. Especially in arenas, but bad in BGs too when there’s someone running around interrupting and CCing your team and you can’t kill them to deal with it.
The ancient reason Blizzard gave for ruining tanks in PVP holds true still: ‘Tanking in PVP is fun for the tank and not fun for anybody else.’
Prot war can be really oppressive in pvp, I would never queue it into solo shuffle but its absolutely hilarious to play in rbgs or blitz. Root root root dragon charge aoe stun fear stun root root root its absolute troll to the maximum degree.
Plus for some reason prot is the only spec where execute actually does damage so if anyone is low enough or your proc it can do millions lol makes 0 sense but ok.
You do know it’s the holidays, and this season has run its course. Lots of folks are simply doing other things.
I remember when I would play prot pally and my friend just couldn’t kill me. He had far more experience, worked hard, was a known duelist on my server, and I could beat him while using an Argent spear. I also remember us going on a hot streak in arena duos, we were double melee, nothing we could do to beat them, they just death striked once and healed our burst back.
Remember recently they had the issue of people playing Prot Paladin as their healer because it did more damage, couldn’t die, and did comparable healing as a healer? It was even part of the Invitations and only got knocked out because the other team’s set up hard walled it. People don’t want to play arena where you see 50% of the time someone is playing a spec that dumpsters on your whole team without even trying.
Blizzard saw Prot warrior was doing good damage with execute and put a nerf in for 11.1:(