BG queues are taking a while and Solo Shuffle queues are also well over 20 minutes for DPS specs, sadly LFG for regular arenas isn’t doing too well either.
I’m making this post in hopes that more people give PvP a chance, it’s a great way to test your skills and gameplay knowledge as well as provide tons of cool rewards!
I grew up on a pvp server, you can’t make me pvp.
I would pvp if I could earn old elite sets.
PvP is dead-dead, and nothing can really revive it unless some old players decide to come back for whatever reason.
It’s my main activity, and I’ve watched it decline for years. It was convulsing in BfA, a bloated corpse in Shadowlands, and now we’re playing with the skeleton lol.
Solo Shuffle is a band-aid fix, but it’s dead by now. Healing it was a miserable experience, probably the worst thing you can play in WoW. Everyone just jumps on you or the weakest dps, and with dampening there’s nothing you can do except panic and hope your team kills one of theirs before you run out of steam, while everyone is trying to die to each other.
The rewards for PvP suck because there’s too few and far between, no one gets to high ranks unless they’ve already gotten gladiator or whatever before, noobs can’t learn because there’s an insane amount of stuff to know.
The reliance on mods is also a problem.
As far as I know, it’s more alive on Classic actually lol. Probably because it’s slower and easier to get into as a newbie.
It’s sad because WoW PvP is unique and fun, and my favorite thing to do.
Wish they’d emphasize battlegrounds more, give us a solo ranked mode with its own rewards.
Honestly, PvP is an absoloute mess, the balance is disgusting. Quite possibly the worst PvP in any MMO I’ve ever played. Healers are MASSIVLY overtuned across the board, And warriors have way too many dashes that it’s imposible to deal with them as a ranged class. I disengage, they leap, I frost trap, they charge, Explosive trap, they leap again… It’s none stop there’s no breathing room, and that’s as the ranged class with the most self peel/disengage.
There is no balance around PvP atall.
I just link this when this keeps coming up. My thoughts on it - It super sucks to get into.
The rewards aren’t the problem.
It sounds like you need less dps to pvp. Maybe convince the community to berate dps in solo shuffle in addition to the usual healers.
Part of that issue is that Hunters are a set up class in an ever-evolving zerg meta.
Every melee class gets multiple charges of gap-closers or some kind of spammable CC or something, Hunters still have only their one Disengage, a freezing trap (ground-targeted), with a root and slow trap and shot, all of which are 20-25 second cooldowns lol.
I doubt wow will ever recover from holinka’s ruination of wow pvp. A pvp lead dev who bragged about playing wow pvp on a touch screen.
He was the dev who created the final interaction of trashran, and was from the nannyland style of development.