Unless you’ve got a set group of friends/players you play with regularly or in past seasons, LFG is where lone pvpers go to die sad, angry, or bored.
Was browsing it today, zero Yolo groups for conquest. What kind of sad sad world? No chill farm groups? Pshhh
Everyone in the LFG is just self proclaimed multiglads who are above playing with non glads, despite being 1400 themself. It’s quite strange. I feel the entire 3v3 bracket must just be Glad vs Glad and nothing else, because anyone below that is just doing solo shuffle or not up to par for the elitist attitudes of LFG rofl.
Not so much slaughtered as we see how awful LFG is. As bad as queues are for solo, at least I’m not spending 30 minutes looking for a partner/group only to have them leave after 3 wins 1 loss.
Solo Shuffle is like Mr. Garrison’s flying alternative invention from South Park. Yeah shuffle is bad, but it’s better than LFG.
And really, solo shuffle is the kind of pvp most players find enjoyable with all the chaos. “Normal” arenas feel like playing Hearthstone: ok you just played The Hunt so now I need to play my Stun and Kite cards or I lose. You just played Spear and Bladestorm and I don’t have any cards left to counter it, ggs.
This is the same poor opinion that led to Garrisons, Class Order Halls, and many forms of anti-social solo content. WoW is an MMO. If you want to do solo content, there is an open world to explore. If you want to do group content, you’re supposed to find a group and meet people.
RSS is anti-social, and it resembles dungeons more than PvP because teamwork is absent when it turns into a DPS race. LFG is in bad shape because the lackluster DPS who would normally queue 2’s and 3’s and struggle to find partners due to bad gameplay/attitudes are queueing RSS instead, where they can be abusive and inflate their egos along with ratings due to sheer volume of participation by DPS.
Honestly I love RSS. I’ve always wanted a game that was lobby based but had wow style PvP. Its pretty much the only reason I log on. I mess around with other content but get so bored.
I just wish conquest boxes would drop old transmog gear you never collected. Really don’t feel like rinse and repeat farming this old content
Antisocial: devoid of or antagonistic to sociable instincts or practices.
Sociable instincts/practices in the case of an arena team means collaborating with teammates and being amicable. The toxicity in RSS chat, or DPS playing “solo” by running from their healers, not peeling, etc., seem pretty unsociable. RSS, by allowing players to feel that such actions are fine because they win games, is encouraging anti-social behavior in the PvP scene.
But you know, go ahead and copy another sentence from a meme.
Your customs do not equal societal customs. It’s not anti-social to want to play the game.
There is nothing antagonistic about queuing up solo to play arena.
I know it’s popular to misuse the term projecting within this community but this is an actual case of it here.
Being a player that has a skill level commensurate with your rating doesn’t make you toxic. You’re projecting and your attitude is exactly why people are Asocial and avoid you.
I have never tried to use the LFG for arena because he level of toxicity I’ve witnessed by the PVP community towards people who are learning, or just not on the same level, has deterred me from bothering trying. Over the years I’ve wanted to get more into it (I’ve only ever been a BG hero), and occasionally I’ve had a friend or two that played for a bit that would step into arena with me. I’ve made it to 1790 in BFA before we both quit playing (due to life) for a bit and my biggest regret was never getting that last 10 points. My goal afterwards has always been to get to 1800 to try and unlock the full elite set, but yeah… and now that RSS is out… the amount of crap-talking people do each round is just… its pretty bad.
Maybe having players list what they’re interested in doing (3v3 at 1800+ CR), then giving showing potential matches of other players looking for something similar? I feel like the whole “application” system is outdated, frustrating to use, and artificially limiting.
Nah it’s the best thing to happen to the game since Battle Groups. I’d rather see more tools and modes that connect people than removing things until there is no one left.
The problem is that they’ve spent 20 years building the game around 3v3 arena, with coordinated teammates. Solo shuffle is no where near the same thing.
While DPS is really important, most of my wins have been stopping teammate healer CC, peeling, kiting around my team, and pressing sweep when we have cds or if there’s some cross cc
Although you can argue its antisocial if you just want to cap quick or do your own thing idk but that applies to 3s, 2s & rbgs.
I see 3 chill groups in 2s rn at 9:30ish am est on a Saturday. Can also always post your own lfg.
You realize SS has 20x more people playing than all other arena premade content? They should honestly leave premades in the dust and expand on SS and ranked SoloQ bgs…. It’s beyond obviously what’s more popular and what will make them more money
Yes, it just doesn’t work for some classes like it does others. The game will go in a terribly boring direction when they start balancing around solo shuffle. Healers and casters can not cast, kiting is impossible, crowd control is nearly not needed. If you want to see who can do the most damage just do PVE. That’s almost what solo shuffle is.
There is a reason there are loads of people who have never been above 1600 rating that are now 2600 in solo shuffle.
3’s bracket is tough right now. You do face glad teams in voice at like 1400-1500 rating. It’s very unfriendly to new players and a lot of times you play one game and someone leaves or kicks someone else out.