I think they took it out of 2s because it’s not a competitive bracket. If they brought it to shuffle we’d see even higher numbers than we already have. It’s better to specialize in what’s already doing well and participation would skyrocket. You would see healers from all over the game queuing shuffle to get their legendary mount.
Really good change for classic because 3s is basically dead, and after 2200 theres no point really pushing 2s at all even though it would be the most balance place to be in (cata with damp/mop).
You could never have 2s glad in retail due to how crazy strong some specs are. If double dps comps like ret/demo and mage/boomy arnt fighting healer/dps at the top of the ladder then their wont be enough comps to actually play except rdruid/x.
This has always been the strangest stance to defend the bracket not having glad. 3v3 balance has basically never been good, and has often been absolutely just as imbalanced as 2s.
2s not having Glad was fine and nice under the old system, but under the current one, there needs to be more done to incentivize people to play organized arena, and 2s glad would help that.
3’s is the deadest it has ever been in the history of the game.
All that said, I just want everything incentivized, let people play, have fun, if they want to do 2s, let them do it and get a cool reward.
What does it hurt at this point? Every streamer has left retail, minus Ven. They are all on LOL.
A lot of people enjoy WOW and would prefer to see things experimented with.
If things stay the way they are, the same result will keep happening. Which is a sub drop off from PVPers.
This has always been the strangest stance to defend the bracket not having glad. 3v3 balance has basically never been good, and has often been absolutely just as imbalanced as 2s.
I know, people say 3s is mega balanced, but anyone who does 3s knows you can literally get one shot by anything that is fotm for the season lol.
In classic 2s is more popular then every bracket due a few reasons.
Losing gives conquest (75) so a lot of people gear that way.
Double dps actually works to a high level against a lot of comps
Easiest to play arena with 2 people
If they really want glad in 2s they need to straight make damping start at 60% for healers only and allow heal-dps to offheal properly so you can get a huge amount of comps like ret/x, dps-shaman/x dps-druid/x and spriest-x that can actually fight healers.
Maybe. I think 2’s has a loyal player base, but some comps have always been better historically and while 3’s isn’t perfect it’s a lot more balance and fluid.
It’s just the popular format. Like I said Blitz/Shuffle have 800 free mmr so that’s the best way to unlock the rewards if you don’t feel like binding all of your abilities.
Just my two cents as an average player who got to see the game before solo queue ruined it.