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Iâve made plenty throughout season 1 if I recall correctly, back when I was still struggling to make melee wings hpal work, or in other words, back when preservation evoker, disc, rsham, mw monk, rdruid pretty much all performed better than hpal.
You probably donât remember because I was horde and my name was Truluck at the time. When I went back alliance I reused the same name I had last time I was alliance (also because I had a druid alt already using the name Truluck) 
Not going to try to dig back however long ago that was, but if you care enough, feel free to check.
Contrary to what people might think, Iâm not against 2s, 3s, or rbgs (2s were my fav bracket for a long time too), but more so against the general inaccessibility of the other brackets due to the scuffed lfg system.
I just feel that each bracket should have a queue functionality comparable to the system(s) that are in Overwatch [e.g., you can queue solo into a 5v5 matchup, or you can duo, trio, full premade queue, etc.].
oh yeah i remember you!
The classic!
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I love sitting 45m queues as DPS and even 5m queues as healer. Yes it is longer during oce times. Adding the mount would reduce this imo.
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What does that have to do with me not advocating for solo shuffle though lol?
You could also pull up many more posts that have me advocating for hpal nerfs
I donât deny I have bias (I do my best to try to recognize it though), but people were rioting for nerfs faster than the post ret rework, and our rework was nowhere near that bad in comparison.
I like the Idea, RSS needs more incentives for healers especially, but adding an additional reward for everyone helps.
I agree here for the most part, when I can bring a good dps in a Duo queue why would I queue RSS.
Tbh I think 3s is dying. RSS has stolen a lot of the camp thats tired of LFG. Many people I know would rather sit in 30min queues and deal with the RNG of RSS rather than playing 3s. It really did steal players from the bracket. Solo/Duo is probably the future. I think 3s will only get smaller from here on out except maybe Xpac launches.
It was just a funny meme like when rets came out people were memeing with ârets are finally viable now stop whiningâ
RSS is cringe and should be deleted and repalced with normal solo q no1 asked for this trash gamemode
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It is the most popular bracket still.
Kitchen knives are way more popular than the FAMAS F1 high powered assault rifle(way easier to buy a kitchen knife) but it is still the inferior weapon in 99.9% of situations.
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Ah true true lol. Yeah, looking back, every nerf that hpal has received since the rework I agree with.
I agree that it wasnât the mode I was thinking about when wanting solo queue. I donât necessarily want it to go away, but yeah, I really want solo queue functionality for every bracket.
Iâm super stoked that we are soon getting solo queue rated battlegrounds
Normal solo q? As in rated skirms or?
Give me my 1911 and let me storm the enemys position
Random battlegrounds are the real mode.
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This forum campaigned on removing PVP gear from progression in arena now we have no rewards and nobody is pvping. Wow who woulda thought
Yea, but you must see how people at higher rank having better gear than people who are trying to climb is a problem like in SL right? Just my 2 cents, but there are far larger problems that have been ignored like Healer MMR that stopped people from playing.
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Not at all,
The gear different while climbing was like 1 or 2 ilvl. Obviously if you are fresh and just started climbing and wanted to go right to 2400 it was a huge difference.
I had no issue on my mage climbing slowly anyway half way through a season.
I liked the PVP rewards but i didnt like how i had to grind honor to pay for those upgrades nor did i like the honor upgrades. I still think its better arena be equalized but i feel like you need some PVP mode where gear matters it is a MMORPG after all not a Esport, but the lack of rewards makes it almost not worth the cost of equalization.
I get what youâre saying. I think Blizz tried the complete opposite here with the only incentive being the 1800 mog and more if you really wanted them, but atleast from what I remember in SL each ranking point would allow you to upgrade your gear fully. Hit Rival, upgrade all your gear to that upgrade level. It really sucked if you are behind the curve and starting out on a new alt or a blue geared char facing people in semi upgraded conquest even at 1800 for example.
Dunno I donâ t think its better before.
Yea i agree, it did suck because people would lower rating and actually out gear people. No solution there equalization only solution. I still think PVP power rewards got more people into rated content even if it only effects open world and bgs
Like its a MMORPG after all people want to get a strong character to crack some skulls. Being a balance druid in TBC it was pretty fun out gearing people and just killing like 10-15 people at once in AV during the WOTLK prepatch
What they could of just done is made it so gear scales with rating or something. So any particular rating can only be x amount of ilvl. I think gearing is just core to MMORPG rewards i dont think some 1800 transmog that looks the same as the raid gear is good enough
I mean, the upgrade system still exists, itâs just that it only affects pve ilvl (which imo is how it should be).
Personally, I think Blizzard handled gearing for pvp perfectly (or at least close) this expansion.
The same rewards exist otherwise, 1800 mog, 2100 enchant, 2400 tabard (and now weapon mogs), 2400+ 50 wins for gladiator mount.
Aside from feeling good about having a gear advantage in a pvp setting, I wouldnât really call being able to upgrade your gear to have an unfair advantage in instanced pvp as a reward (thatâs just me though).
I think the SL system also made boosting a lot more prevalent, which generally had a negative effect on those trying to climb the ladder to reach the next threshold where they could upgrade their gear.
I agree im not saying SL was good im just saying Dragonflight arena is dead in the water and im blaming the lack of rewards and poorly implemented solo shuffle.
I also dont agree that MMORPGs shouldnt have any gearing difference and i do think gear should mean something at least in casual content.
A mount or some pve raid tier looking transmog is obviously not enough. We get so much transmog now and mounts, every single new mount or transmog is just worth that much less reward wise and i think it can be seen that the game is running out of ideas for rewards.