Ion said Blitz will be the default of RBGs and a collection of angels came down and sang Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song, and my heart grew 10 sizes that day, and i named my second born Plunderstorm.
This is overdue, but its still good. Arena was becoming awful and im glad this pivot is coming. Good luck, god bless, and im glad ill never see another premade again.
I look forward to solo queue RBGs. I’ll force my way through 10 wins on the classes I have MT weapons on, especially druid for that black werebear.
I feel like the que time is still a bit too long, even for this mode, to appeal to a Fortnite audience.
That compiled with the need to gear + bloat of abilities doesn’t help either.
Either way; Moving towards a BG focused pvp over Arena is a lot better.
What does this mean? 
Healers generally prefer to play with friends who are nice and/or good.
Solo queue modes are usually dps otherwise unable to get a healer to willingly play with them.
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for this for over a literal decade.
Glad to see it implemented in my lifetime.
Too bad I’m not as young.
All that’s left is to remove healing and tanking roles from PvP and we’re g2g.
It means, the new-beans will still not feel like WoW is their go to for fast phased PVP gameplay.
And I play a healer in pvp, so I wouldn’t know what your point is there.
I’m still sitting in a que for Blitz.
https://i.imgur.com/h7IxK9E.png
(Can’t post links/images on US forums, kek…)
Well that’s a shame, I haven’t done rbgs properly since maybe BFA but the thing that made them good was the people I played with and the coordination / synergies we built over time.
Maybe if classic reaches MoP we can get that back.
Can’t wait to see people rage on forums about unfair defeats because people left at the start of a BG.
Awesome. Maybe I’ll finally grind my way to High Warlord.
I think people barely doing them is the entire reason for the change.
It only took Blizzard 18/19 years to realize 8v8 has always been the peak of MMO RPG PvP.
Time is a closed loop. It took too long to return to Emain.
Don’t get me wrong I think 3s is fine but this has always been obvious to me.
Bad take.
You think you doz but you dont.
Unless youre a demon hunter.
People think they just want to zug each other but the reality is when they’re at fault for their own failures they quit. The brilliance of group based PvP is that everyone can convince themselves someone else is to blame for their defeat. Dps over extend? Blame healers. Healers die? Blame dps for no peeling.
You only need to look at the decline of 1v1 genres and the rise of Mobas or team shooters to realize people only want to play games where they can pretend they’re amazing.
You’re right, it’s still sad to see it written down.
In my extremely anecdotal experience over the years when I’ve tried to get friends into 2v2 and 3v3 arena it was clear they didn’t like a giant spotlight on the idea that maybe they kind of sucked.
I already know I’m bad so losing didn’t bother me.
Well Arena is almost impossible to balanace in an MMO. Battlegrounds can absorb more imbalance without damaging the experience than arena can.
See you in hell dampening
Cant wait to slum this to elite mogs as a healer
Amen!
All the [redacted] way!
Jeff Kaplan (tigole) has done more harm to this game than any single person associated with it.
He believed that his “type,” sweaty tryhard pvp competitors, were the ones that mattered. So he changed the way pvp was designed: rated competition and rewards, game balance around the arena system, and a heavily splintered pvp community.
He went on to make a terrible tf2 clone, and ruined it in the same way.
Any move to consolidate how people play pvp will probably be too little, too late, but it doesn’t hurt to try.