Yesterday i finally had to call it quits.
First off i want to say how much I had loved this game. The content and the skill requirement kept me playing this game for years but yesterday I unsubscribed.
The Be all end all in the game is gear, better gear = a better time playing.
I mostly PVP and it is what i enjoyed about the game. RBG and arena is pretty much all i did.
Shadowlands Ruined PVP and Ruined my class and I am done with the game.
Blizzard Punishes people for playing the game and trying. shadowlands introduced some amazing and fun powers but blizzard in none of their wisdom they made 1 shot abilities and gave them to stealth classes. while trying to climb a ladder to get better gear you get punished for losing to a one shot from stealth you had 0% chance of preventing. The PVP gearing and rating system is broken and easy to see why. The gear grind is too much, going from 154- 226 is too big of a gap. PVP at its heart is trading cool downs and a timing. Shadowlands made PVP the worst it has ever been. 154 or 197 honour gear is too low to do anything against a 213-226 geared player. you can face a players with 70% better stats then you. this goes against what PvP should be. There should be some sort of gear grind but this is too much.
I spent months grinding arena and RBGs to climb the ladder in hopes to get to 226. only to get matched up against players with 19% better stats and punished for losing a match i had a 1% chance of winning. all while the match making system blizzard created favoured me. Blizzard in my opinion has no idea how to match make, no idea how PvP works and no interest in making it better. they do not care for the 99% of their player base. they only make tweaks for the 1% who do top level PVP and Mythics. blizzard is still making money off of people for pay for boosts and smurf their ratings. All blizzard cares about is money. They wont fix a broken system that makes them money. Smurffing is a huge reason why i left. it matches players with the lowest tier gear with players with best in slot. Its just dumb and bad and un-fun.
Blizzard if you read this i know you can do better, but i doubt you will.
to the loyal players, good luck and have fun, I wish the best for you guys and gals.
Been playing since 2004 and PVP right now is at it’s worst. I don’t have time to grind arena and RBG anymore. Most of my friends have left the game and I can’t spend an hour LFG only to have a partner leave after the first loss. I play randoms. Have a lot of alts. But when I get to 205 and 22 Vers and literally have to hide in RANDOMS there is something wrong. Today I stared down a team in WSG across the field that had a 70k flag runner and a 51k Mage… yes MAGE. Everyone was over 40k min. I felt like wtf did I spend all this time grinding out my mediocre gear to have at least a competitive game only to keep staring at peeps in 220+ constantly ? I can’t possibly get this gear without giving a handy to someone who already has this gear. I don’t want to grind the same dungeons for 2 years… and pvp with the same outcome season after season. The gear differential is beyond ridiculous. And why is it we haven’t had a catch up on pvp gear yet ? This season is just about done. Never thought I would unsubscribe but I am getting very close. Especially with AoC and NW coming out soon.
sorry to hear that, i want the game to be fun for all classes. the games has so many balance issues that are too obvious and have not been addressed. it is just negligence on blizzard part. i’m not going to pay them hundreds of dollars a year to be punished for playing their game.
I didnt do much pvp in bfa but what makes shadowlands worse? Bfa had zero pvp gear more or less. The ilvl gap was there in bfa. I guess it’s the one shotting that pushed you over the edge?
Scaling + heroic ilvl gear being available to unrated players made casual PvP more tolerable than SL. Competitive PvP was very annoying in BFA because PvE was definitely required, but it wasn’t really required to do casual stuff. You can’t really be competitive in unranked gear now though, especially at this point in the season.
In BFA I could level an alt to 120, and within hours get several pieces of gear that were 400+ in ilvl. I still couldn’t dominate in max lvl BGs, but it was enough to not get dominated. Later in game when you could just completely gear in benthic gear it made it even easier.
what we need, as a community, is a place to go like wowhead or icyveins that covers all things pvp. idk what is the best to kick in pvp but i know everything that needs kicked in mythic plus. idk what target to cc in every comp but i know the exact routes to take in mythic plus. get good is rough with limited resources imo. arena matches are so short when you’re learning. i can review my gameplay and still not know wtf went wrong.
i mean, if there is a place to go, please let me know. dont say skill capped. 1, that stuff seems outdated. 2, im not paying for it.