Making changes to TBC Arena is a mistake

[Mcg-benediction]

Continuing the discussion from The Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary PTR Development Notes:

@Kaivax

Arena Updates

Arenas will be enabled soon on the PTR as part of a season test, which will run for several weeks. In addition to the Arena changes that were outlined in the initial PTR post, we’re adding additional adjustments. While our goal is to keep Arena gameplay in TBC mostly unchanged, we want extreme edge cases – such as both teams losing their DPS player – to still reach a natural resolution by adding a form of Dampening.

• 2v2 Dampening
  • Begins at 20 minutes.
  • Starts at 0% and increases by 6% per minute.
  • Caps at 100% at 16 minutes and 40 seconds after the dampening began.
• 3v3 and 5v5 Dampening
  • Is not active by default.
  • Begins 5 minutes after both teams have fewer players alive than the bracket size.
  • Starts at 0% and increases by 6% per minute.
  • Caps at 100% at 16 minutes and 40 seconds after the dampening began.

Changes to TBC Arena are a mistake. Blizzard needs to stop making changes.

As soon as Current Blizzard employees start making changes to Classic World of Warcraft, the game goes down hill.

For the love of the Real Classic Playerbase, the letter to the real players that simply want to play the game as it was then; Blizzard needs to stick to their retail, micro transactions, WoW Token, player house sales and whatever else garbage the Real Classic Playerbase wants no part of.

Stop ruining Classic World of Warcraft on purpose and leave the Real Classic World of Warcraft community alone with our game.

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[Roachware-nightslayer]

Im just so confused… who the hell even asked for these mongoloid changes. The devs literally dont play this game do they? Earpugs made a good post about changes that dont affect how TBC arena works at its core… dampening affects many comps… like where do they get these ideas from???

[Bigslappy-nightslayer]

Agree, dampening is something the community never asked for. What the community is looking for is a continuation of the balance changes provided in previous TBC Classic (such as banning items like Nigh-Invulnerability Belt, Mind Quickening Gem, etc). And also changes like the retail arena “lever” to start the game earlier, and a removal of certain RNG like heartbeat mechanics.