Strawpoll The WOW Feeling you get when you PVP

PVP Battlegrounds
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https://www.strawpoll.me/18077174

What made me think about this I just did an Eye and this has not happened to me in a long time. but I start getting so excited that my hands start shaking, I even died because I missed it the button a couple times.

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After experiencing just about every situation multiple times, nothing is really exciting or unexpected anymore.

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I voted that I’m not a robot.

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It gave me the option to do extra security on IP so I try it this time.

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You probably just low sugar

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@Bdm

I have a super-duper-SRS request for a Strawpoll!

The question is for people who main horde:

Would you faction change to alliance?

(answer options could include caveats like “Yes, if
”)

Dunno if you will honor this humble (lol) request but you (and Gdtroll) seem to like strawpolls so
 :smile:

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If Gdtroll doesn’t make it, I will make it, but give this one Just a few days uptime.

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No probos. :+1:

Just thought it’d be a pretty interesting one.

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I start off at number 2 and end up at number 3.

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I used to get the hand shake thing years ago when I started to PvP
it’s adrenaline. Now it’s rare, unless it’s a knock-down drag-out fight at maximum effort that I barely win or lose; I might get the hand shakes for one of those. But most fights now are handled by the thinking part of my brain rather than the gut.

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I’ve definitely had all three, but my close wins recently (there have been quite a few) have been so much fun. I had a Mines one yesterday and it was literally down to the wire in terms of points. If we even lost control of a cart, we would have lost. I breathed a sigh of relief when we won.

And then there was the one where I nabbed the flag in TP right as the EFC was coming around the corner to cap (we would have had a tied score and thus lost). I managed to cap in WSG all by my lonesome with 2-3 enemies on me because the EFC was killed right as I was closing in on our cap point — I really thought I was going to die.

I had a ninja grab and cap quite a few times that won us the game in the WSG brawl too.

IOC was a mad rush yesterday too, although once the gate is down, it’s all about corralling the cats to fight the boss.

As for raging, I was pretty salty yesterday when our hunter would not bother capping the flag when the EFC was dead for at least 30 seconds, if not more. And he was right next to the node! Eventually, he did.

Close games can be fun but exhausting.

Anyway
 yeah, those are some of my experiences. :sweat_smile:

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That is what it was adrenaline In PVP I still get excited, but In that BG it just all of a sudden hit me. I was thinking what the hell is going on I’ve done this BG and 1000 times.

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I like to think I’m keeping my head on straight. But the adrenaline and excitement are key features of the matches that I remember and the matches that are the most fun.

I had a WSG last week that we won barely, and I was still so amped at the end of it that I had to take a couple minutes to soak it in and reflect. This match had everything. Everyone on both teams was playing the flags, pickups on the relay, fighting for every inch. We had a mishap with our FC and healer that had them start raging at each other. We had a good team and a good comp, but it felt like it could unravel at any moment.

At one point (still scoreless) I was alone going into the enemy base with both FC’s ready to cap, and there were 2-3 guarding the EFC. I knew I’d never make it out of there alive, but as long as I could get our flag back it wouldn’t matter. So like any warrior would, I jumped in there and threw literally everything I had at them, every trick I could think of, and was able to force the EFC off of the goal just before our guy died.

So there I am all Avatar’ed-up and drooling saltwater, getting pummeled in their flagroom, everybody’s cooldowns are blazing, and the red flag respawns :open_mouth:
By Elune’s grace or some stroke of divine luck I was able to pick it up first and then kill the EFC before I died 4 seconds later. Fight on, Heroes! This is not over yet! (Actually what I said was “omfg that was way too close”). I’ve never been happier to die with a flag on my back.

We got the next cap and won 1-0 with good team play and good flagrunning by our druid. I’m pretty sure we still would have won had we played to 3 without the timer, but it was a crazy match. I actually whispered one of the teammates afterward to congratulate him on one of the most fun WSG I’d seen in a while, and we played another one together after that (a fun TP that we won decisively).

White-knuckle WSG, man. That’s why I still play this game, after all these years.

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I don’t do a lot of PvP, but when I do and you have those moments of adrenaline pumping high risk high reward moments. It’s well amazing, it’s like a first heroic last boss kill.

My guild got heroic jania down with 3 people up including me for the first kill out of 15. I never felt that kind of satisfaction since heroic guldan.

I love those moments in PvP and PvE

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WSG used to be my fave too. But I think I’ve been disillusioned by the amount of CC and slows in the game now, which make smaller BGs less fun overall. When I feel like I can’t move or do much of anything it doesn’t feel like a good game.
In that respect I am looking forward to classic, at least during its early months.

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Yeah, that will be interesting to see.

My timelines for things are a bit fuzzy, so I don’t remember when it was that which changes were made, but I do remember times in vanilla when the durations of various individual cc’s were pretty ridiculous if players had put talent points into improving them. Traps and fears come to mind specifically, and originally the trinkets didn’t remove every cc (for example I think for warriors it was just poly and maybe stun). The flip side was that there weren’t as many cc spells in the game, total.

But again, I don’t remember the specific patch timelines and I haven’t played much PvP on the, um,
 other places.

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I hear you. Didn’t mean to imply CC will be perfect/great in vanilla, but I think it won’t feel like it’s littered all over the ground everywhere you step, like it feels in retail (especially for some specs). I should add when I babble about generally looking forward to classic it’s more from a large-group-world-PvP and AV perspective. For me the classic appeal will last as long as gear power remains on a fairly even keel


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Inc fears to china and through walls :joy: it doesn’t break on little dmg like now fyi. Many DR categories also.

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Ah yep, I remember that, Juga. lol

Again, I am talking about big fights you can somewhat ‘get lost’ in and still have a lot of fun if you are aware, and crafty.

The hype over classic makes me laugh, but I was watching some level 30 streamers do world PvP and it just looked so fun. Brought back memories. I dunno how much that stuff will happen in early months, but I hope it does. It’s one of the few good reasons I can think of to play classic.

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I’m pretty thoroughly hyped.

40-49 pre-crossrealm was where I fell in love with WSG on this character. The twinks in there were raidbosses and I had no idea what I was doing. I must have gotten stomped and gy camped in there so many times. I remember finding out about how to use berserker rage to break fear and how to use the stances in a more fluid, tactical way. It was a whole other dimension to the game and to playing my character that I had no idea about.

I’m really curious to see what it’ll be like to be back there again under the old rulesets. I’ve re-familiarized myself with the old warrior mechanics, with tanking, and with dungeons, but the old-style BG’s are something I haven’t been back to yet.

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