Everybody is having a blast with in on TBC classic. Lets get it back in Slands!
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Idk if I am alone here but I always treated 5s as the “friends bracket”. You and some friends take your 2s or 3s teams and mesh them together and boom, you get to have fun. I do miss it.
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5v5 being good is also sort of a TBC thing I think, current game I can’t see it being that interesting
From the TBC players I’ve talked to 2s/5s are their fav bracket, I really like watching 5s honestly but yeah idk if it would actually be very good with the live game
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Who cares as long as its fun
Ya I just mean I’m not sure if it actually would be, the bracket really had died off because it stopped being fun which is why they removed it, and I think the things impacting that got doubled down on
Bracket just sucks on live version of the game and finding 5 people is even harder
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I want a 6v6 rbg before I want 5v5 back.
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I don’t recall blizzard saying the reason they were removing 5s was because it wasn’t fun anymore. In fact I don’t recall blizzard giving any reason.
I do, however, recall speculation that blizzard removed 5v5 because of all the r1 title sharing by teams colluding to have 3,4, or 5 team “ties” at R1, effectively sharing R1 that season.
Popularity was the reason; bracket wasn’t played/participated in
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You’re probably right, I just don’t recall them officially saying why.
But if inactivity was the reason they disabled 5v5, my next question is why disable it? Clearly the framework to enable 5s matches is still in the client since you can war game 5s. So from my understanding they’re not saving any overhead costs by disabling 5s. The framework is all still there.
Idk it just doesn’t add up
5’s would suck because everything is balanced around 3’s. Sure you get two healers and more cc in 5’s, but the way damage and CD’s work in live, you probably wouldn’t be able to properly react to CD’s, you’d just lose your healthbar in one or two globals and having the second healer wouldn’t even matter.
5 Boomkins pressing Convoke like RBGs. So skill!
Maybe 4 and a Pally for aura mastery.
This is all hypothetical. Why not just flip the switch to re-enable ranked 5v5 and see what happens…
Literally nothing to lose…
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It does cost them money though to track and give out end of season R1 titles. Someone has to be employed to track those numbers, issues DQ’s, etc.
It can’t be that much, but perhaps they didn’t like having to verify more then one bracket (3s)
It’s really not hypothetical at all man. Put it this way, you and your team que, you got your whole strat down, enemy team doesn’t CC or coordinate a go, and the closest target to them dies while you try to setup your go. It’s not skilled at all. Have you ever had 3 dps targets on you in a bg? You literally die in 2 to 3 seconds, and when you add on 3 interrupts lol good luck.
Especially with all the one button globals in the game. 5s can’t be played.
I have hard enough time finding two people for 3v3…
“The closest target to them dies”
That means someone on your team was out of position……
There is skill involved maybe you’ve just never experienced it.
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I just don’t think you’re quiet getting it.
When 5v5 existed, balance wasn’t all about 3v3. You’re playing classic so obviously you know the cd meta isn’t what it is now either.
When 3’s is the main focus, you’ll see that modern 2’s isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be, and others will admit there’s a good bit more of rock paper scissor. Some classes just play poorly into others and buffing them to do so would hurt the 3’s bracket; which again, is the main focus. Sure you could start 5’s for fun if that’s what you really want, but it’s going to be like 2’s, but worse. You’ll also find that less people play it because it’s harder to get 5 people going. Then, you’ll eventually probably have long ques, after the initial rush. Then because people know they need 5 people to sit down and wait 5 to 10+ minutes to que, and that there are 5 times more of a chance of someone going “oh gotta dip” or ninja dcing because you lost; so people will just avoid it even more until its dead. Atleast in 2’s the foundation of CC and CD’s is still the key to winning, while 5’s will be more of an fps shooter where the core mechanics matter less.
They should make a 6v6 arena… with slightly larger maps to accommodate… and more diversity like CTF/cart escort (with proper O and D)/etc
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100% this. WoW’s pvp has always been better in objective gamestyles.
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