Is TBC arena harder than retail arena?

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One of my guildies in TBC, who was a S2 gladiator back in 2008, says TBC arena is much more difficult than current retail arena.

is he right?

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Yeah just look at all the arena masters and old school glads that are stuck in the same rival bracket as me

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ya where’s jeck with his torn ACL

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No it isn’t

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its harder in the fact that you had to be a certain percentage of the ladder. so yes in that sense it is harder. gladiator now is just a rating+wins. so anyone could get it.

Rank1 also used to be only 1 team per bg.

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two types of ppl say bc is harder

streamers who are sick of retail and wanna be king of a simplified game while harvesting dad twitch viewers

dads who suck at modern wow but were “good” when the average player was 1k by today’s standards

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if you like auto attack being 50% of your damage and having every ability resisted, yes its “harder”

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@ me next time :rage:

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I wouldn’t say that it’s harder from a skill perspective, I will say that it requires more reactive gameplay given than you never know when your offensive push (or defensive counter, for that matter) is going to get resisted/dodged/whatever and completely flip the game on you.

Also, the grind for PVP gear is significantly more time consuming. So I guess you could say it’s “harder” to do 80+ hours of battlegrounds for a belt in TBC versus < 1hr of arena on retail.

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No.

Condemn spam is way harder

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Arms/Rdruid is a very skilled and complex comp in TBC.

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in tbc if u had a focus fear/sheep macro u were a glad, so no

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In S2 and S3 of BFA, 85-90% of UH DK’s damage was auto attack and they would instant kill you.

Just throwing input for amusement.

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Sir, this is a Shadowlands.

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Two different games. Two different skills.

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They should bring resist back

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i found it significantly harder

i didn’t even make it to the arena in tbc because i couldn’t even make it level 50 before uninstalling

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Depends on the class. For rogue and mages the game basically hasn’t changed since TBC.

Max CC, max burst, reset, repeat as often as needed to win the game.

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Man what

Dks were stupid easy to play but you’re just looking at dmg profile incorrectly

You were constantly using globals as UhDk, consuming wounds etc.

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dididi i love you ! <3