If you’re in the beta, now’s the time to rescue SL PvP…
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/focused-pvp-testing-is-underway-september-2/630795
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/focused-pvp-testing-is-underway-september-2/630795
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i dont think they want actual pvper feedback.
I tried to queue for a BG the other week in beta and gave up after 35m with no pop.
Maybe now that they have PvP trinkets and gear scaling people will queue for it, but there currently is no estimated time to get a game trying it just now.
edit: I asked in beta chat if BGs ever pop (on horde) one person said they never have for them, longest they’ve tried is 90m. Someone said they’ve been in queue for 6 hours and haven’t had a pop. Another person said the only kind of PvP anyone queues for in beta is Skirmish.
If you see a average wait time it means they have bgs turned on if you dont its off. it was like that on ptr too never got a q pop then when i saw a timer for it they started popping i have both and only ever got bgs on ptr due to seeing a timer. on beta i didnt
its a shame cuz arena sucks
They balance looking at arena not BG’s so that makes sense .
Yeah i know still wish they popped tho
Well pre patch will be here in a matter of weeks and the epic BG’s will be fun again .
Looking forward to playing AV and IOC at lot soon.
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Hey let’s focus testing on PvP right now without any warning or even having a PvP related beta forum. We’ll get good feedback from people who care about PvP this way, promise.
Every PvPer I know hasn’t bothered to even level much in beta because there has been so little focus on PvP up to this point. It’s a pretty big middle finger how this went down.
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well that’s new! My overly dramatic point still stands, though.
If this means what I think it means, this is the best thing to happen to BGs. One of the reasons I was thinking of switching to GW2 was access to this top level PvP content. Instead of gear coming in the way and me never having access to experience my character in the end game PvP way. No more steam rolling by players who grind away their life trying to farm advantages over other players without focusing on their gameplay. This will force people to focus on their gameplay as gear will no longer carry you.
Great step forward. I might actually now buy the SL expansion.
How does the ranking up PvP gear work? Will I just want to hit 60 ASAP and grind honor before the PvP season starts?
How much PvE a week am I going to have to do to have fun in PvP?
Do we know what the ilvl of max level PvP gear is? I heard that ilvl is scaled up to 215 in arenas? So should we just use stat allocation instead of ilvl?
Are there any new PvP achievements? Is there a new FFA PvP toy?
This is kind of neat. Hopefully this won’t leave wPvP dead like happened in Legion.
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Um… That scaling aura is probably just for testing purposes during the beta. They’re trying to simulate end-game item levels in PvP.
These guys cant afford to shave their necks. Any and all input will be disregarded.
Thank you for your input.
Yea, we really needed the PvP testing to start in alpha, not a month before pre-patch.
Which is weird because PvP testing should be the easiest thing to set up. Blizzard clearly has some kind of workflow design problem since we see this pattern expansion after expansion.
I’m guessing they were waiting for the other major systems (e.g. class/spec design, covenants, conduits, legendaries, etc.) to be locked in, so they can get more holistic PvP feedback.
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Yea exactly. They do PvE testing in steps, slowly adding covenants, legendaries, and conduits in stages so that they can catch stuff. PvP would benefit from the same thing so that we’re not walking into, say, Life Grip Legendary + Venthir Priests making positioning against CC no longer matter.
BTW, does the 50% exp PvP trinket heirlooms still work, or were they nerfed too along with all the other heirlooms?
I wouldn’t know.
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Oh hey I got a new hard drive, I can just download the pre-patch beta! I’ll check later after I put my parrot to bed tonight.
Returning Champion has had its XP buff removed, now it’s just a 10% hp heal on a 2 minute CD.
Blizzard what are you doing.
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BGs seem to be on now when I tried to queue tonight, estimated wait time 19 minutes rather than nothing on Horde. Merc mode NPCs are missing or don’t function and I haven’t read anything suggesting they’re just throwing people into either team for faster queues in beta (which would be ideal).
Might have to re-make ally characters or something. We can make 60 pre-mades I just didn’t feel like re-doing my UI and keybinds if I didn’t have to. Also you have to re-craft legendaries and do an intro chain to get your covenant abilities. Some are short but the night fae makes you do this annoying theater thing.
edit: after 40 minutes in queue I’m going to just guess there’s not enough people queuing. I do a random /who of various BG names and nobody was in a BG that I could see.
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