Um, did you miss the selfie patch? From a game design standpoint that was the laziest and worst.
lazy yes, from a mmo standpoint it broke the game as even i quit after that i think.
but i mean from a game design standpoint, as in games and theory games, not a specific video game. pvp is a game, pet battles are a game, all seperate from the video game of wow.
the pvp game atm is broken because winning doesn’t have to be based on player skill or interaction, but a random proc neither player has control over. the ability for toilet devastation to randomly proc and kill someone is what makes it game breaking. that turns wow into a party game where winning is decided by RNG. party games are anti-skill because they are for everyone to have fun, losing to being outplayed isn’t fun at a party.
Regardless, this isn’t the worst patch. That goes to the selfie camera every time.
the selfie camera didn’t break the fundamental aspect of pvp, which is to see who can beat who via skill, not who gets the proc.
4 Likes
No but it didn’t add anything to the game pvp or pve wise.
That’s rich from someone that presses 1 single button all game.
250% haste+infinite runes and zombie maker goes BRRRR!
Hahaha!
That made my night.
or if you have over 450 ilevel you can ONLY play rated with the rest of the people who have 7 hours a day to play wow. youre only in regs to beat under geared players. maybe you need your own bracket?
It is the worst patch in the worst expansion for PvP.
Blizzard left specs and items broken OP for weeks/months. If your spec was bad in PvP, you had to pray that it was randomly better in a future season because Blizzard wasn’t going to hotfix anything.
The power gap between a new toon and a geared PvEer is insane.
The power gap between a toon in full conquest gear and a geared PvEer is also insane.
I hope Blizzard learned what not to do in BFA, so we never repeat this nightmare again.
6 Likes
8.3 is the equivalent of throwing gasoline on a dumpster fire. Corruptions were already disgusting when they were achieved by rng, but now that people can save up a currency and stack the fotm ones its even more apparent blizz doesn’t care about balance.
4 Likes
you didnt have to win to get geared. i didnt really like ashran itself but geared up in a day or two flying around on my druid. pretty sure my team was losing most of the time too
it was easier for rogues and druids but you could ignore the win conditions and get any character geared that way
2 Likes
All true, and why I quit playing cap pretty much immediately and went to lower lvl bgs to avoid it. People complain about lower lvl bgs being imba, but it’s no where near the headache of the cap rng circus imo.
Insulting is more like it, but not game breaking from a play standpoint. No one “plays” selfie cam. People play pvp. That selfie cam sure did the trick though, didn’t it? I knew 3 people that dropped the game immediately because of it. 
5 Likes
Yea it was very lame. That whole expansion was 
1 Like
This morning woke up and did a Motherlode 12, not because I love the dungeon but because like you have stated it is the price one pays to get better gear and why should people be allowed to be lazy and not have to do content like the rest of us?
Coming from you is irony gold!
Why? I didn’t ask for it to die.
I went against a pure Sargeras premade where they were all 475+, it happens.
1 Like
I like you, you are a cool person, but there have been times where no matter what I say you have to have the last word, so you telling Abom that he should let it go is very ironic coming from you.
When someone says let the thread die, the most sensible thing is for them to stop posting and bumping it. Not ironic at all.