Pvp lacks a training/practice mode and thats a problem

PVP Arenas
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Here’s what i mean by it.. In pvp you can practice your rotation on training dummies for example, or even ask players help and friends if there is those avaiable to help you (i don’t).
But overall, and thats especially true in arena, you have learn stuff under pressure in that chaos trying to win, and while pressure testing can be a important part of when you’re learning something, just like the training dummy is there to not hit you back as you do your thing, each arena skill knowledge thing that you should know on practice doesn’t have a practice cenario for you to see how it is, do it, and THEN you start to apply it under pressure.

So what we have on practice is essentially like this.. did you train your rotation on dummy? good, did you organize the ui with the first guide you found? good, did you install all the recomended addons and got the basic basic of each of them? good, now go (you are thrown into the arena) and then you have all this stuff you need to micromanage, you have no idea how to do that on the run, you never did it before, but hey, you have no time to figure it out because the havoc demon hunter and the warrior are bursting you aaaand… you’re dead.

I play pvp in many expansions by now.. i’m gonna be honest, i probably haven’t learned even half of the stuff you’re supposed to do, be able to identify and to know inside the arena.
If you look at a good player playing arena for example, you see that he is calmly reading the game like he is looking at a chess table, he instantly recognize what is happening, say i’m gonna do this, and then this will happen, like some sort of tactic play and then go for the win.
I can’t do that, i’m 100% reactive to what is happening before me, its pure chaos on the adrenaline and i act purely on reflex, being able to make just small observations here and there, like i’m training someone and notice some opportunity to swap target.. this is just recognition reflex, a good player can look, analyze and predict the game calmly.
that important skill for example, is not something i ever learned playing for years under pressure, and no matter how long i keep doing that, i won’t learn it.
Its just like rotation, i can’t learn my optimized rotation under chaotic crazy pressure, i master on the dummy first and then i adapt to pressure.

That said, i still keep up on pvp despite that.. 90% of people who touch pvp just get intimidated and quit pvp entirely.

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Just turn on WM and go gank some noobs doing WQs to practice

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This is only good for zug zug practice

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PvP in 2026 is literally just zug zug so sounds like the perfect practice mode

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no its not lol practice mode is just playing q up

if you gotta test ui/macros do a skirm

wah wah so does everybody who mythic raids and tries a non vault key

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No punctuation, poor grammer, and misspelled words? Kennie must be smashed rn :face_with_spiral_eyes::clinking_beer_mugs:

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Only thing wow needs is a cc simulator to build your mental up. Nothing kills arena like tilting

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that already exists.. you just have to drink alcohol

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Dueling is the training mode

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They are adding a training mode in midnight my guy.

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The best way to learn WoW PvP is to go to your local trading game store for a MTG Friday Night Magic Tournament. But get there super early, like around 2-2:30 PM.

Find the table with all of the dudes wearing sweating pants and Hellsing/Pinky and the Brain Shirts. You’ll smell them before you see them. Infiltrate this group and ask your PvP oriented questions. They will call you bad and other derogatory things, and frequently say “how they hate the people that play WoW” despite dedicating 12 hours of queueing a night. But you will eventually get some advice or absorb some arena/pvp related tactics.

Pro tip. If you also go with offerings, they will welcome you faster. My go to is Mountain Dew: Code Red. But I also heard handfuls of peanut butter M&M’s are a viable alternative.

Good luck,

Jim

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Honestly it’s tough but this is a facts for every game. You need to play the game to learn how to play the game. That’s the best way to learn everything. You don’t need to know everything right off the bat. Just figure out what you need to do to win and master that. After that it’s learning what other things do and how to react properly to them. Then if your still struggling ask for help or watch other players who play your spec/class.

I feel like a lot of your problems could easily be solved if you recorded yourself playing and asked for some help here. Stop creating some weird arbitrary reason on why you are bad, and instead if you actually care figure out how to improve yourself.

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unironically the best way to get good

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arena skirms and random battlegrounds and duels

But pretty sure they are adding in a vs ai mode next season so it doesnt matter.

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Solo shuffle and battleground blitz are practice modes.

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Isn’t this what playing is for? What does a training mode accomplish that simply playing doesn’t?

You don’t need to try to win or do anything. You find another player who also wants to learn or do some chill games and you just figure it out. There are plenty of people here or even in trade that are usually down to play or give direction, it’s just a matter of asking. Just make a group in LFG and say “learning - Chill games” or something along those lines. Or just ask questions here about what you should or could be doing. A lot of times it’s better to present a specific thing you’re struggling with and getting direction.

So you lose some games while you’re trying to figure it out? So what. That’s a part of the process. :slight_smile:

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wow players like prepping for stuff by doing a bunch of nonsense

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I think people get nervous in arena. Hard to change that.

I usually level a new character if I want to learn the ropes and then do some PvE before I do arena. I think lots of players undervalue experience they can get when playing with a healer as well. When I started, it was with another DPS friend and honestly, it was pretty rough. Eventually we got it though.

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ya that just takes reps

the best thing you can probably do prior to arena is just be comfortable doing damage

I’ve had decent success playing with pve players who just parse perma and we figure out cc/defensives later because you can build around damage as that’s sort of like the foundation of almost every comp

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Yea, lots of people really under value PvE as it relates to PvP. Getting rotation stuff down to the point of second nature is pretty key. Sucks that PvP builds often times don’t mesh with PvE, but that’s usually why I just level something. Been awhile since I have done that, but helps a lot.