SOD likes to somewhat measure PVE team skills through hard mode raiding
Arena is a way to measure team skill through PVP
How about having a ranked arena, and having high stamina accessories, pvp trinkets and pvp enchants through the arena vendor, best items only attainable through a certain ranking. As well as top 3 arena ranking special mounts
reinforced armor pvp enchant reducing chance of being crit by 2% available through arena points
Executioner enchant, mongoose enchant, etc from the arena vendor for the 2000 rated arena players
Even upgrading the PVP gear set bonuses (for better set bonuses), just like draconic and molten in PVE
Rather than giving bloodmoon necks, cloaks and rings for pretty much free in the bloodmoon
Arenas wouldn’t work in SOD at all because none of the class changes/runes were done with the intention of ever adding them into the game. You can’t just throw Arenas into SOD without massive class changes across the board. You don’t even have Shamans and Paladins available to both factions, lol. Nothing could go wrong here, nope. No sir.
If you want competitive PvP in SOD the best you can hope for are Rated BGs as they are much easier to balance around.
That’s like saying BG’s now are working. pretty skewed results even if it is bgs or arena. It would be a platform for PvP enjoyers to practice, nothing else. If you dont want to participate in it you dont have to. I dont see an issue adding something that is already made. preferably both rated bgs and arena
BGs are working perfectly fine. In fact, SOD PvP has never been better than it is right now.
But Arenas are completely different(does the difference between BGs and Arena’s really need to be explained?). If they added in Arenas and gated gear behind rankings without significant sweeping changes I guarantee these forums would explode with QQ threads. I bet the OP would be one of the first making them since hes already got 2 Nerf Paladin troll threads going simultaneously atm.
When did i say anything about gear? No rewards, just PvP if you want to queue. Again, you dont have to participate in it. Yes SoD PvP is better now than it has ever been even though some classes are still too overtuned, with that said I still dont see any reason to not implement something you wont gain anything from other than practice. If you dont like it, dont queue
You do not want arena in SoD or any Classic version of the game.
The OP can barely keep his sanity when facing paladins in BG, yet he wants RANKED arena…
It’s like you have a death wish. You’re asking for the sweatiest toxic cesspool PvP experience you can ever imagine and you don’t even see it.
and the top teams in Arena’s would be full shaman running away and purge spamming until their opponents are out of mana, and the shaman team will just turn and nuke with their full mana bars and win every single match.
No. You can have skirmishes. Ranked systems in this games pvp would be ridiculous and nothing more than a way for a select few people to make irl money by selling boosts. You can have a tournament if you want a competitive environment but ranked arenas are just straight up bad for the game and in sod make no sense.
Not to beat down on op but just suggesting this shows a massive lack of game knowledge and insight.