Why do PVErs not like PVPing?

Are you saying this is PvPers?

I don’t know, but it does look like a good reenactment of the coming battle between Tyrande and Sylvanas. That or it’s a reenactment of the battle of the Twin Peaks. I cannot be sure sadly.

1 Like

I like pvp in pvp games wow is not balanced at all at pvp here.

1 Like

So what you are saying is, both Sylvanas and Tyrande are mean girls.

You are a Worgen, you tell me.

#deploytheplague

1 Like

That’s not just ANY Worgen, it’s DEXTERworgen
 (classic, +1 mate).

Even as a fairly avid PvPer - I have to agree, here. A fairly samey faction war that’s been going for over a decade(!) can only hold interest for so long. I think I got all my bloodlust out of me through WC2, WC3 and the earlier years of WoW - while I still enjoy fighting other players, I can’t say it’s been for a sense of ‘faction pride’ for years.

Having played both factions, it’s hard not to realize both of them are just full of 
 people. Sometimes the exact same people, which makes it hard to keep on fostering that ‘us vs them’ attitude that a faction split seems to engender.


Now? I’d just like to play PvE with my friends on both sides, with some PvP on the side when I feel like it. And I feel to a lot of other players, PvP is a side activity as well.

People who mainly PvP are a very small minority, growing ever smaller as the amount of (frankly) better PvP games become available. Some of them are even free!

2 Likes

Hey Dozer, I can only give you my experience. I used to almost solely pvp up to end of WoD, stopped in legion due to pvp gearing and templates, and just never kinda got back into it because of the gimmick kills and gank mentality, its just too frustrating
 oh and pillar humping in arenas. lol, so there ya go, I only pve for transmog now, how pathetic I’ve become. wow barbie ftw.

O_o care to elaborate? im interested.

Honestly: It just got really complicated. I remember my nephew once handing me his ps4 controller and laughing at how badly i played. “I thought you were a gamer?” he remarked. “so did i!” my internal monologue protested.

Its just really complicated. Not only the reacting and pre-empting, but also the amount of data you need to put back in your head. I cant keep up with the pvp world. And apropos of nothing, i want to state outright, the pvp game is so far beyond the pve game in terms of complexity, its almost ludicrous how pvpers are treat like garbage in wow.

2 Likes

I’ve never really enjoyed PvP in MMOs mostly because it felt like I was making no progress or flat out getting nothing out of it. Just not very rewarding compared to questing or dungeons if I ever felt like it.

When it comes to this game I have had thoughts of going into bg to earn some gear from vendors but never got around it.

After years of neglect from Blizz towards PvP, the players just probably stopped playing.

2 Likes

Yeah pillar humping makes arena suck. It’s not fun gameplay at all.

PvPers.

/10chars

2 Likes

I don’t like PVP because it’s just something that doesn’t appeal to me. I suppose someone could say, “Just look at the other players as mobs in PVE” I suppose that would be true in every sense.

I try to keep my interactions down with other players as much as possible in PVE settings, PVP would be just interacting with other players which is not my cup of tea.

For me its a number of things.

Balance. There is no way to balance pvp around duels, 2’, 3’s, 10 man bg’s and 40 man bg’s. The constant swing between overpowered to being a handicap for your teem is supposed to be fun I guess but instead it just irritates me.

Crowd control. When you can join a 3’s match and spend half or more of you time cc’ed and unable to actually play the game it’s well not fun. Roots into hex into cyclone into roots into knock back, into roots yeah count me out.

Battleground objectives often get ignored in favor of fighting mid making it an auto loss for your side. And despite knowing that there is a need for just a huge brawl blzz keeps ignoring this issue.

When out in the world I just want to get whatever task done. Furthermore I got tired of being nice to people and being jumped only when others have an advantage be it with me trying to solo a world boss or by being out numbered 5 to 1.

Finally the childless of some pvpers is off putting. For example when you get out numbered 5 to 1 and then they make rude gestures or tea bag you. Really cause it takes so much skill for 5 people to kill one person


I could probably come up with a lot more but this alone is enough to keep me from doing any pvp unless required such as grinding out pvp sets, essences or getting blacksmithing recipes. Even then I usually come to the conclusion that its not worth wasting my time for.

PvP is in a really bad state right now, especially with corruption, so even people who enjoy PvP are avoiding it. I PvP a lot less now with how BFA has been for PvP over the course of the expansion. If PvP were in a better state, I can guarantee there would be more participation. So it’s not so much that people who PvE don’t like to PvP (actually, PvE players have the advantage in PvP right now), it’s that Blizz has effectively deterred the PvP community from playing.

2 Likes

I hate PvP in this game because I am terrible at it.

When ever I try to PvP I usually rage when I blow all my CDs and UNLOAD on someone and they take 20% life then they just glance at me and I fall over.

I hate it.

1 Like

I am a pve player in WoW. The reason I don’t pvp in WoW is because I only really care for story driven content. The only time I pvp in games is when it is forced upon me to do it to participate in story content.

Also, pvp in wow is extremely toxic. If you are new and trying to learn, people just berate you and bully without given any constructive criticism or advice.

PvP in wow is just not worth even attempting imo.

2 Likes

I like PvP.

I just don’t like WoW’s PvP. If I want to PvP, I go to a game that actually does it well.

1 Like

Honestly a part of that problem is how some classes are designed, just started doing 3s again and straight at 1700 you start facing walls of DH/DK cleaves or stuff like that, classes with 0 downtime or ramp up that just ram into you endlessly.

Doesn’t make for the best new player experience.

Imagine if most melees were designed to work like Survival or Feral where you actually have to press a few buttons to start doing damage.