I don’t see mention of this anywhere, and it’s possible I’m just missing something, but it appears to me that there is no way to queue arena skirmishes at the moment, which I think is a bug?
Does anybody else even care about this?
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It’s not a bug, they were originally removed in Cata (and MoP,) later returning in WoD.
Blizzard are being incredibly foolish by disabling them. The only reasoning would be to follow the letter of the past, but we’re playing CATACLYSM not Vanilla and a large PVP playerbase are interested in trying out Cata Arenas in particular. Just add Skirmishes back at the bare minimum, there’s really no other way to play arena for many people.
They need to increase the honor and conques gain rate tremendously since they’re shortening seasons, and also add catchup (remove the need to cap weekly and be able to catchup to the max down the line) at thhe bare minimum for the ladder to be active. Wrath was dead for myriad reasons, but one of the most important contributing factors was the barrier to entry due to needing a significant amount of PVE gear as well as PVP gear being punishingly hard to catch up on due to no catchup conquest/arena points.
Blizzard, EVERYONE is happy with the Dragonflight PVP gearing system. Just tune Cataclysm’s gear PVP acquisition (again, NOT PVE – since PVP gear isn’t competitive in PVE this should be fine) rates and system to be more like Dragonflight. It’s not hard, you’re literally changing a few spreadsheets and would instantly make the game 100x more appealing for a large population of players and therefore more active.
While you’re at it, disable triple DPS and double healer 3v3 comps (you added roles to the arena queue system – just force (only) 1 healer for 3’s comps)