Two words…dynamic environment…especially if your healing. Its a constantly changing situation that is entirely unpredictable. Unlike PVE where you don’t even have to look at the screen once you’ve beaten the fight once, you can heal and move by sounds alone…I really don’t see why people find raiding fun once its on farm. To me it just seems rote and boring.
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its all i do.
arenas are super boring… like you want me to hide behind pillars for 9 minutes, wait for dampening to finally get a single kill then the rest of their team just quits?
lmfao boring. in a bg u can get like 30 kills in 9 minutes , and a lot less hide and seek, just pure action
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in battlegrounds you have to improvise, its always a different situation. my teammates could be anybody its random, and the opponent as well so you have to think of a strategy for what to do with what you have.
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bgs aren’t scripted and ive never received a hate tell from a raid boss.
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I don’t do battlegrounds exclusively, but I’ve been grinding them since vanilla. I have over 100ks on all my character. I just feel like I have a better opportunity to contribute to the team and have fun. Arenas are too compact, high stress, etc. I’ll do them, but they aren’t my cup of tea.
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BGs are here and have always been here for one reason. To test out the best gear in the game by Globaling and completely stomping your enemy. We play this game to get BiS items then test their Epic power by farming HKs and breaking the spirits of the other faction.
BGs aren’t competitive and aren’t supposed to be. There will always be undergeared noobs learning the ropes in a BG and it’s your job to Delete them and beat on them till they work hard to acquire great gear and then it’s their turn to beat on noobs. It’s a cycle or initiation.
BGs are supposed to be fun because you feel completely overpowered in an PvP environment that is designed for casual play. Where you 1 vs 3 and win. Where you can easily dominate the other player until they get gear and become the dominators if they also have the skill to do so.
BGs and PvP is a 2 factor situation in WoW because it’s an RPG…First you need gear to compete then you need skill to use that gear. However in BGs there will always be undergeared so it isn’t much of a competition except for maybe competing with your own team on who can get the most KBs while farming their GY.
BGs are only fun if you feel overpowered. That is why they exist and why we continue to do them. If players wanted fair competition they will do something that has a MMR or Rating attached to it. So when I want more of a fair balanced fight I do Arena and when I want to Global someone I do BGs.
The best PvP game of all time was Diablo 2. I PvPed there for 6 years everyday before coming to WoW.
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All these replies are terrific and each and every one replying stated exactly why I love bgs. Thanks all!
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Basically this. I would have replied with just “this” but I guess I need ten characters
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I was a PVEer for the longest. I had never done PvP and was actually really intimidated to do so. So, back in MoP there was one quest you had to do in order to get your Legendary cloak, and it involved winning a Silvershard Mines game (or something like that). I was nervous as hell and a guildie came with me to show me to what do. But I LOVED it. And since then I’ve been strictly a PvPer.
But, I’m kind of confused about your story. It just seems you had a bad raid leader, did you ever try to get into a good group? I used to raid, and I did enjoy it, but I’m just so PvP focused now that I can’t seem to get my head back into it.
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It’s far and away the most fun thing to do in-game with no close second. There’s definitely room for improvement but even BGs’ worst patch was more fun than grinding dungeons ad nauseum.
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I’m in a good group now, and thanks for asking. Just curious if others had similar experiences.
I mainly play BGs. Why? Because I… gotta!
No but, seriously, BGs are just the best. I’m really hoping they continue the trend of allowing BG spammers like me to level and gear to respectable levels through mainly just BGs.
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Exactly what I want to do. I have 3 mains, seriously, but the rest i just use to level and gear to respectable levels to play in bgs.
was in one of the higher ranked Mythic Raiding Guilds in Oceanic earlier this expansion
on norm and heroic, the expectation was to clear each boss without a wipe
the raid leader was militant; no one was allowed to question him on strats or mechanics.
If you messed up once you were called out on discord and berated for it.
three strikes throughout the entire Raid and you were kicked… though they didnt just remove you from the group and discord. It was a shaming ceremony where you were identified by class, race, and letter of your name, then asked to leave, while the rest of the Raid waited patiently for you to leave raid group and portal out.
Never experienced anything as toxic as that in the game… and that’s saying something given the amount of RBGs I do via LFG 
I mainly BG as it generally has the most socialising and have met most of my friends through them.
Egads and I thought mine was horrific. I also mainly BG and see some people acting like jerks but it’s fine with me. I get frustrated in there, too, at times. I even like some of the opposing groups as we’ve played against each other for many levels.
Yep it was awful. The good side of it is we downed every boss bar the last on first attempt, and clear Heroic raid in two weeks, but it had all the fun stripped out of it.
Though equally as bad are the Raid groups that suffer wipe after wipe for 3 hours and down maybe 2-3 bosses. ugh at least in a BG it’s over in 10-20mins tops, then you can find a new group or requeue 
It’s also awesome when I meet a regular forum poster in them as well 
I don’t like dungeon raids due to that experience and a few others not as bad as one I described. The thrill of bgs and pvp is what gets me! It can change minute to minute and you can depend on that one person on either side doing something unexpected.
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I used to be that guy, but not anymore. Legion and BFA really broke PvP gear progression and classes and it’s not fun anymore.
I do play from time to time, but rarely.
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Personally I like how “laid back” casual bgs are compared to arena and RBGs. I never could “get into” arena myself, just too stressful for my tastes. There are exceptions of course (Seething Shore, Silvershard Mines, etc), but you can just chill in most bgs - no stress.
The ability to use specific PvE items, cheesy PvE toys, powerful OP abilities like brez and Lay on Hands, etc is just too good imo. Because we are unable to use these things in arena, that just really kills my interest in it (…on top of it being stressful).
Also, in the context of the whole covid thing, regularly hanging out in epic bgs at least provides a basic amount of human interaction via the chat room. Sometimes, instead of leaving, I’ll hang out in Alliance epic bg losses just to observe the chat for the lulz 
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In the immortal words of Krombopulous Michael,
And there’s a lot of that to be done in BGs.
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