Back in classic TBC, arenas were a tremendous flop.
Would like to know if its system will be reworked for the anniversary edition.
I’m sure that a solo queue for rated and the removal of team ratings, would be welcomed.
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so you’re looking for Solo Shuffle?
No.
Anniversary has been on maintenance mode since it launched. This trend will continue into TBC while they goof around on their Classic+ or whatever they’re doing in the background.
You could always try out retail
Would be awesome if they added
Arena catch up cap like cata has
Cross server team play
Removal of teams
Removed rating requirements on gear
Make last seasons gear cost honor instead of arena points once the season ends.
Possibly added solo que / shuffle
Increase honor gains from BGs so that getting the epic honor off pieces doesnt take a 40 hour week to get.
Outside of season 1 it was pretty dead.
Arena tbc is probably one of the worst iterations of wow arena tho so it makes sense it died fairly quickly.
Would be nice to see some of these changes so people can play this fun mini game. Especially the catch up cap so alts can be played mid season.
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Solo shuffle definitely won’t exist.
I could very easily see the removal of teams and personal IO.
That’s Abt it tho
Retail at this point is a complete different animal.
Lore, gameplay and even artistically wise, Vanilla+TBC are almost different games, even at a game genre level, where we started with a MMO-RPG and ended with a Platform/Arcadish-MMO.
The thing is: Will Blizzard let arenas die like in 2020/2021 after 1 or 2 seasons, or they will cater for modern audience and somehow turn it in some side interesting and fun thing to play?
TBC has its peak moments, but it can turn to be very boring in no time and that was very noticeable in classic TBC.
Vanilla classic anniversary, is retaining many players through this new pvp system, which really offers very significant rewards, even after p5 release. Many people are investing time on alts, due to this new system.
Would be nice to see the same in TBC, through arenas without being attached to team ratings and solo queues would definitely increase participation.
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id say add bonus honor to bg’s permanantly and dont force people to stay on teams. a lot of problems would be solved
No they aren’t reworking anything. This is a relaunch of the game. You will get minor changes and that’s it.
Nothing is being reworked besides PVP ranking because it was a literal dumpster fire.
TBC classic had the highest arena participation rate of any of the classic iterations. By all accounts it was a success. It makes sense, TBC arena was the golden age of WoW PvP.
Solo queue would not be a good idea, it would split the arena population when classic anniversary has barley enough people to support a competitive system as it is. There needs to be casual player participation in traditional teams to keep MMR brackets healthy. A way better idea would be to improve the LFG system for finding team mates, and start teams at 1500 like TBC originally was (or at the very least, improve points/week to be in-line with what people would have got starting at 1500).
I’m neutral on team rating vs personal rating.
I don’t recall it being a dumpster fire back in 2019/2020. I found a premade and made my way to R13, during the later phases and almost everyone was happy pvping back then.
I’m almost sure people didn’t complain as much back then, as right now with the AV chore and i welcomed the change, mainly because I dislike the premade/RBG systems.
But that is not the point, the point is that it was a major change in anniversary, among others like the LFG, so why not change the arena system, which will likely flop like in TBC classic, where the participation was residual after S2?
Please let people causally enjoy meaningful arenas and get some nice rewards. Let the e-sportish 2008 trend to remain a retail thing.
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