2k is high, don’t let other people dissuade you.
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It depends on what you’re doing
If you just spam games you might never improve
The only way to get better is to learn about other specs and add ways to track what they’re doing to your UI and learning to react to that, and to record your games and identify what you can do better
Someone playing the game full time with perfect as attitude and approach might go from 1600 to rank 1 in a year
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i agree, u have to play the right way to improve. but like someone can play 10k games and be bronze. ive met one irl
a year it is
Usually I lose going into dampening when it comes to SS. Eventually they run me down.
Given I do the things you list, I also know that I probably don’t do it enough.
Could also be the people you play with holding you back 
Always ignore this.
Most of the people saying this are the top 0.5% players egoing on one another for being 0.1% difference in rating and bashing one another for playing “easier” classes.
Most players in their life will never earn a rival title from 1800 and many many many people struggle to get above 1600.
If you want a measurement of success look at your skill of yesterday and ask to see if you’re improving, regardless of the CR tied to your character currently. Are you personally doing things better?
Something will eventually click and you’ll coast up a few hundred rating because you’ll have that “thing” figured out (juking kicks for free precog, kiting properly, always getting your damage out, rotating fears properly, positioning well, knowing when to trade and went to run).
Once one of those blocks falls into place you’ll use it as a stepping stone to climb and then work on something else. Eventually you’ll find 2100-2400 “the average player” area and be amazed because realistically speaking you’re above what most people are willing to put effort into getting in wow.
One of my biggest issues is that I don’t recognize when to use certain CDs, especially offensively. I also lose focus on things. Thing about me is that the more stressed out I am the worse I play in general.
I’m starting to understand the importance of positioning.
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That’s most people. Recognizing that and taking a breather is important. Rage queueing will usually just have negative consequences.
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Consider for a second
How good do you think you’d be at guitar if you played it for two decades? How about chess? Sculpting?
Well WOW has been out for about two decades. Some of the people who play this game have 10/15+ years of competitive gameplay under their belt. For them 1600 is sleepwalking.
There’s a lot to learn, from spell icons, to spell effects, to macros, to unique, unintuitive spell interactions (like how Sigil of Misery counts as Physical and will land through COS.) Learning WOW as a new player is like drinking from a fire hose.
Average player is still around 1700. If you want to improve, seems like you’re on the right track. All I would suggest is playing multiple characters, as that really familiarizes you with how to play alongside or against multiple specs.
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Honestly I feel like most people I have seen in this game including myself have only ever improved ~300 rating past where they started (and by “started” I mean when they actually started trying to gain rating in arena, using addons, etc.). I’ve never seen anyone go from being hardstuck 1600 (again this is after actually trying) and being 2700+ every season. The insane R1 tournament players you see easily got old % glad after just a few seasons of playing. People that get 2400+ every season got 2100 pretty easily early on in their WoW journey. And so on down the rating line.
So all of this to say I honestly think it’s out of most players hands how far they can go in this game (or any other). It all depends on where you start and that’s determined by how inherently good you are at the game. I’ve seen all the arguments about how WoW is just a game of knowledge etc. and anyone can be as great as they want but it’s simply not true and I have never seen it happen. Maybe there’s an exception but for the vast majority of people you are where you are and it’s not going to change much barring hyper-inflation hiccups.
Exalter, Breaker of Hope, Ender of Dreams
i started casually pvping in cata and mainly was a 2s hero, was a career challenger with random rival titles because i just would play with whoever. I didnt get “good” til BFA, which its hard to tell if i got good, or if they made pvp easier with the static achievements, but the main driver for me was the pandemic and working from home. Had so much more time to play wow so I decided to study/learn wow pvp much more and be pickier with comps i played and ive been 2100 in 2s/3s since with a couple SL glad titles.
what’s mine
Elise, Dodger of Queues
what the
I’ve still yet to queue into you in Rando BeeGees so CLEARLY somethin’s goin’ on here .-.
No, it doesn’t take that long to get good at something. You’ll know fairly quickly if you have it.
Never happens. You can be a multi r1 and people will still trash talk you 24/7. Just enjoy the game, improve where you can, and don’t sweat everyone else’s opinions.
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Fink yer missin the point buddy
It’s not to say it takes two decades to “get good” at anything
It’s that new players shouldn’t get discouraged for not reaching the games highest heights within a couple of seasons or even years of playing. The competition they play against can have over a decade of experience
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