In game issue

PVP Arenas
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This is a quote from Blizzard a few weeks ago, indicating they’re would be a significant amount of rating gains from 3v3.

However this is not the case at all.

I play every single healer, out of all 6 available for play, fully geared, with any team I can find that is near my same CR from LFG. Ive posted several times on forums, in discords, all LFG to find teams viable enough to climb.

And every time I queue, I lose more and more points. For example Im losing -14, and from a win I only gain maybe 10. This doesn’t seem fair to me, given the fact you have stated there are ‘significant’ increase in rating gains from 3v3. I feel lied to.

I play this game every single day, have bought the early release for this expansion. I have added several people on btag whom I have met, all to try and have consistent partners for 3v3, and it never works out.

My pres evoker was up to 2192 this season in 3v3, and is now 1930. Thats over a 200 point loss overall within a week and a half.

You guys make getting Gladiator so extremely difficult, and it makes me hate this game to the point I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone ever who might be interested in playing. Its completely unfair. Im playing arenas against people who are riding in on the current season Gladiator mounts, against my LFG formed random teams at 1900-2k cr. This means that current season gladiators who have achieved the rank of Gladiator for this season, are playing alts and essentially gatekeeping the achievement from anyone else that is battling to climb.

This game isn’t fun, because you can’t actively progress in PvP. You’re constantly looking for people to play with, even as a healer who can play with any group. But it doesnt work out, because the teams you find and queue with don’t have coordination, are randoms thrown together, fighting people with years of experience playing the same team compositions, who are all gatekeeping the achievement.

Then you have people selling it online through carries and pilloting services on sites like Overgear, and Skycoach, and even advertising it in game in listings.

So I don’t understand how you can retain players like me, to continue playing this game, who want to achieve a goal, but are being lied to by Blizzard about ‘significant rating gain increases’ all while im steadily losing more rating every single day, never climbing or progressing towards my goal of Gladiator.

Insane.

I think you guys need to make it more accessible for people who queue through LFG and stop catering to the idea that this reward and achievment needs to be some elite/ prestige reward that only the same people who get it every single season are allowed to get. This doesn’t retain players, it frustrates anyone new or returning that feels like the game is completely unwinnable without some RMT service.

Gladiator needs to be easier to reach
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You will want to click the icon in the upper rt hand corer to move this to the PvP & Arena’s forum, as unfortunately there are no Developers in this forum, as it is unique in that it is the one forum that feedback and suggestions are not taken from.

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yeah just to get trolled by everyone who already has gladiator, thanks.

the same people who play alts, riding in on current season gladiator mounts 300-400 points below the actual rating needed for the achievment, essentially gatekeeping the reward and title from anyone new.

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God forbid a feller queue an alt or with a friend or try another comp

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Im not saying thats wrong, but like I feel lied to by Blizzard. Im losing more from losses than I am gaining from wins. So there post about significant increase in rating gains is false.

All I want is Gladiator once. Ive tried everything I can to improve, and find partners. It never works. I cant climb.

Its more frustrating than anything, just being gatekept constantly by people who have already achieved it.

Its frustrating and annoying. This game has way too much crowd control, way too much burst damage, way too many interrupts, way too many variables to even be able to enjoy the game, and they make this achievment so difficult to reach for anyone trying to climb.

Its insane.

I wouldnt recommend this game to anyone ever, at all. Not fun. Not worth it.

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Just stick with it :dracthyr_comfy_sip: The whole ladder sliding up pretty aggressively and you’ve got 2+ months

What changed from original rating peak, did you change comp, was your spec/comp nerfed or

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The point of gladiator is that it’s hard. Anyone that says it’s not is because they’ve played with the same people for a decade.

They added plenty of mmr, but you still have to win. I get it’s frustrating, I’ve been iced out 4 of the last 7 days trying to find queues at night, but you gotta start looking inward instead of making complaint after complaint on here.

It’s not the games fault at this point. You have every healer you’re queuing on and still aren’t climbing. You have to take the time and focus on one to really learn it.

You don’t have glad because you are currently not a glad level player and continue to make excuses that’s all there is to it.

You say you’re not having fun so why play a game to get a mount that you’re not enjoying? Riding that mount won’t change the gameplay.

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I cant do it alone. I have to find teammates to climb with, who actively play together and have coordination.

Its feeling impossible.

Im on every single day, nothing is working. No comp. No team formed through LFG. Nothing is working.

It should not be this difficult to achieve this reward in 3v3. I will continue to argue this.

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I mean I hate to say it man, but if you’re going through that many people you’re the common denominator.

Maybe try playing dps instead. It’s a lot more relaxing and you already know the game from a healer pov to position better.

Glad shouldn’t be free for anyone that wants it. Realistically you’re not even close atm. You peaked 2.2 it’s not like you get glad once you hit 2.3 you still need FIFTY wins at or above that threshold

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It 100% is the case and the numbers show it. I recently posted a completely frsh toon that has NEVER stepped foot into an arena of any kind over the weekend had a starting mmr of 2129. That’s is INSANE amounts of inflation we have never seen before at this point of a season.

It has never been more accessible then it is now and will continue to get even more accessible as the season continues on.

This just reads as you’re frustrated at the lack of success you think you should have right now and want to scream at the world. It’s not blizzard’s fault you’re not where you think you should be.

Don’t worry about the CR it swings up and down man. In the span of one week I went from 2275 to 2165 to 2369 in three que sessions with different people/team comps. Peaks and valleys happen, don’t sweat it and enjoy the ride.

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I mean statistically they definitely did improve mmr gains by a lot. Early season rank 1 was like 2.2-2.3 lol. Now the top players are at 3k. There’s probably 1500 players above glad range currently in 3s.

I say this as a player that’s never achieved glad. But yeah it’s supposed to be hard. And there’s gonna be a wall before hitting it.

You’re also saying you’re playing Pres, which pre-nerfs was head&shoulders above the other healers by a lot. Still meta, but I can see why cr dropped.

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Yeah, thanks man I know im not great at the game. But I cant carry a team. I can only do so much with my healing and utility. I rely on dps to land and setup kills. We’re fighting teams that have comms, have synergy, and years of experience, all while we just formed from lfg 2 mins ago.

It just makes people like me want to quit. While everyone who already achieved it for the 20th time can remain happy about it, and play alts showing off their mount to everyone at 1900.

Insane.

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You’re too focused on everyone else man you’re not going to see improvement until your mental is fixed.

Multiple people have suggested you take some time away from the game because they see your mental health degrade since your initial post.

I get you can’t win games alone as a healer, but dps can’t win games alone either. If you’re that good of a healer and “always have bad partners” then you should have every game going to like 35% damp at least, because you’ll be able to heal until you oom.

If you’re losing before then as a pres or disc priest then you’re trading poorly or doing something very wrong.

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I dont have anything else man. This is all I have.

Thats why it kills me so much that I cant just get the one thing im working so hard towards. Ive played this game since tbc. Never once.

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Stop playing 6 healers, play 1, stop changing your class every time you queue. Stick with 1, learn it, master it.

Looking at your checkpvp you’re honestly not that far off from elite on 2 of your characters, you just need to pick one of them and grind it out.

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Ok but what makes this season different than any other if you

A) haven’t been glad before

And

B) have a horrible mentality going into it

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No because priest sucks against certain teams, and with certain comps, and you get completely trolled by the enemy team with cc/ traps/ sleeps, etc. So instead of hating my life on one healer, I can hate my life on multiple healers.

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You can 100% play only disc or pres into every comp in the game for glad. You’re not used to avoiding cc because it’s brain dead as pres

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Because its supposed to be ‘easier’. Thats what everyone fed us coming into this expansion.

It was all lies.

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This is a problem man, sincerely, this game isn’t good enough to be all anyone has. Take a break.

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