Looking to come back, what should I expect

PVP Battlegrounds
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I’m probably going to have to change convanent but what is the game like for a returning player? I’m not in a guild right now and I would like to focus on PvP

I’m pretty casual and I don’t really enjoy grinding the same dungeons/raids over and over and over and over and over and over…

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Game is extremely balanced right now, expect PvP to feel the best it has in years.

/s

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prepare to be smashed by players with 40k hp in random bgs haha.

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WoW tokens will be you’re best friend when looking for partners.

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There is quite a lot of grinding in pvp atm. And for lower geared players it appears to be kind of miserable, but far from impossible.

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I hope you manage to find fun in it. Play a random BG or two. Let us know how it goes.

Player turnover has been the highest in the first 6 months of SL than the first 6 months of any other xpac prior. I think you’ll know why after you try to run some PvP.

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Cite a source for that.

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This is the worst place to ask this question. There aren’t many glass is half full type people here.

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Game is great and fun. Regardless of what you see posted here.

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Meta is super bursty right now, but a lot of fun, IMO. R sham and E Sham are in good places for RBG, so either one of those choices would be good for you. I don’t know anything about shammy builds to give you covenant advice, but you should have some fun if you don’t get discouraged over the initial push into rated play.

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Did you even bother to read that article. Lol.

" World of Warcraft player numbers fell back to normal levels as the excitement around November’s Shadowlands expansion subsided. From November to January, revenue fell by 61% and user numbers declined by 41% (these figures do not include China). This roughly matches the pattern seen for the past several expansions, though Shadowlands had a bigger launch."

I see words like normal and pattern.

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Are YOU reading it? They say player count rose right before SL launch. Fell back to normal a couple weeks later, and it has fallen dramatically since, every single day.

Read. And BC/Wrath increased in Subs the entire xpac. Cata didn’t lose subs until right before launch of WoD

SL had a bigger launch. Lost 41%, which is the highest percentage of losses in the first 6 months of any xpac prior. Can’t find data on BFA. Biggest launch rise + biggest 6-month fallout = biggest turnover in history.

BFA maybe the only one to compete

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Quote that part. Thanks.

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Expect to wonder why when you try to join a BG at 60 early why they made it so you will face a variety of unsavory emote spamming fellers with 10-15k more health then you and then if/when you post on here, get told to “git gud” and earn your stripes in the trenches like everyone else did.

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What part are you having trouble reading? All of it, it seems. In which case, I already quoted it.

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You don’t have evidence that it isn’t a git gud situation. It very well could be.

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Maybe you should try rereading and see that this is quite normal.

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The trend is normal. The percentages are not.

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OP, I’d recommend waiting to see what 9.1 brings in terms of PvP gearing. They talked about bringing back WoD style gearing.

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