Is the game really this broken or are we just bad?

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I wanted to make this post as a person who thinks they’re better than they actually are. I do REALLY well in BGs. I have the most fun there, I have more freedom of movement, terrain play and I’m on top of objectives a lot doing my part and I feel like an asset to my team almost always.

The story is the exact opposite in arena. Arena is scary to me. I learn more about the advantages and disadvantages of my class/spec from a night of arena than I will in weeks of BGs. I’ve been spending a good amount of time with survival and it’s a very fun spec. My CDs aren’t super intense, but my constant sustained pressure is super high. The utility is fun, traps are fun but the learning curve is massive at this stage for me. I’m like 1500 rating. I think I could be 1800 in a few days with some more practice(And if the queue would ever pop)

One thing I’ve come to find about survival(In my limited experience) is there’s never a lobby where I’m like… “Oh no” I GENUINELY believe I have a fair shot vs any comp in the game and nothing is a total wash. I’ve convinced myself that if I win, it’s because I played better and if I lose, it’s because I played poorly.

I see a LOT of people outright quitting or giving up because of an unfavorable matchup, or they blame their team. Sure, you might have a DPS who dies with CDs up still, or a healer who is struggling. Those are frustrating, right? But that’s what the filter of rating is for.

I really believe that any spec in this game can make it to 2k+ in RSS, but the problem is YOU and your attitude. You think you’re better than you are, and you’re not asking yourself the hard questions.

What could I have done to make that more favorable? What mistakes did I make? How could I have eased pressure on my healer?

RECORD yourselves playing, and run back every single RSS match and you will be absolutely FLOORED by how many mistakes you’re making that you’re unaware of.

Yo, maybe the game has some nutty specs like UH/Demo, but that’s not why we’re not 2k+. The problems that TOP players have, aren’t our problems yet.

Stop blaming EVERYTHING and EVERYONE else and be accountable. The only thing stopping you from being good or bad is YOU.

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Dragonflight have given me the worse pvp experience since 2004, straight up garbage. I have never seen so much stupid damage dealt in such little time, 100% snares, constant ccs to a point diminishing returns feels broken.

the most op class i think in the areas is unholy dk hands down jack of all trades, the amount of debuffs, ccs, damage, snares that class puts out is criminal. I am almost in my breaking point, I am almost ready to snap, uninstall every single blizzard game and move on from that company and never look back.

Hunter has nice damage yes but what damage can you do when you are just locked down and destroyed? when that turtle shield ends its game over, people are dumb to not attack hunters first especially when a team is stacked with any combo of melee.

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only thing broken is my mind

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like if ur not having fun, do you friend, saying hunter is reason ur having trouble as far as i can read, playing hunter. its all good. u don’t have to prove anything. u don’t even have to learn to play hunter. if it is not fun it won’t ever be so. i support you doing whatever clever. i don’t actually care about anything i just wrote

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Bruh, we just came out of an xpac where destro locks could (for about a month) kill someone from 80% hp in 0.0 seconds (no I am not exaggerating) while micro-ccing and WW monks can literally 100-0 you in 0.5 seconds with SCK/RSK.

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Game isn’t even that bad right now. There’s a few things cough dks rogues rets cough that are just absolutely disgusting, but outside of that everything has strengths and weaknesses, and generally everything can beat everything.

Not amazing by any means, but it isn’t bad

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I didn’t pvp last expansion because of previous bad experience with stupid opness of classes and damage but here in dragonflight? its not even fun its stress, i cant even pass 1450 because at that point its nothing but rogues, rets, dks and unholy dks straight up trashing me in seconds no matter what i do

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It’s broken, and it’s been broken since WoD ended.

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Probably becasue RSS is super inflated but favors instant dmg classes like unholy, arms, dh, feral over classes like surv and sub/sin which thrive off communication and setting goes up. As for 2s/3s is super under inflated so 1650/1700 is top 90% rn where it used to be around 1950+ so youre gonna play a lot more 2k+ xp players at lower mmr especially with how easy it is to play alts.

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this is what goes through my head whenever i see a healer complaining about being hardstuck at a rating, well said

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hunters are quardruple s tier in battlegrounds.

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No lies detected. I had the most fun I think WotLK-MoP.

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Dragonflight is indeed really bad.

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Anything ranged is great in BGs, imo. There’s waaaay more room than in arenas for positioning in most BGs. There are some tighter areas where melee dominates but not that many, for the most part. Everything being equal you probably see ranged up at the top in most BGs.

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Game feels broken. Unlimited uptime melees. Extremely lethal damage. Instants doing more than hardcasted stuff.

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arena is all about burst. burst>sustain.

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thing about hunter is they top damage doing all single target. not much fluff. it’s really strong in bg. others are cleaving and tab dotting. an mm doing the same damage as a cleaver/dotter is just insane.

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I don’t stress, nor do I find many people who actually stress.

We just get really upset that rets double/triple kill people because they pressed two buttons.

Or that we can’t dispel 95% of assa rogue damage.

Or that DKs kill you and their top 8 damaging things aren’t even them, but dots and pets. After running in and first global abomination into second global lizard brain

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UH is the only class I believe is “unfair” currently. Demo is good, but you can do some good counterplay like killing obelisk, tyrant, felguard and like purging fel dom so they can’t resummon quickly. UH has every major CD except gargoyle on a 45s CD. That’s INSANE pressure basically at all times and most RSS rounds go much longer than 3 minutes, so a UH can have 2-3 go’s on average, and most classes get one per round. A lot of melee classes suffer against them as well because of AMS being such a strong 45s CD. I think them mitigating such a huge portion of EVERYONE’s damage except warriors is problematic. They’re basically the perfect class rn, and their only natural hard counter loses to chains of ice, a 1 rune cost.

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Its the Boosters, they make the arena feel like its rigged.