no idea if it’s going to be good or not, but a couple of questions for all of you people with knowledge:
- wow forever have arenas?
- if so will it have soloQ?
- if so, what is the most similar class to DK in classic?
ty in advance 
From what I’ve seen and read, there will be no arena, nor solo queue option. I think the whole premise of WoW Forever is NOT to be a lobby-based game which is what modern WoW has ultimately become.
As for the most adjacent class to DK, not sure, other’s may have better opinions on that.
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ohh got it, thank you!
No arenas apparently, guy met up with some devs at Blizzcon and asked them
https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/1wgan4u/met_some_of_the_dev_team_while_drunk_ama/
Here’s the arena comment specifically
bummer because non-rated battlegrounds eventually get a little boring…
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Classic PvP is the most unbalanced sweaty loser-fest known to mankind, can’t add Arenas to that, they already have Tbc for that.
Doesn’t need to give any rewards but definitely needs to be arena. Sitting in town or farming gold doesn’t sound appealing. Ideally they make it count towards the honor grind but even if it doesn’t just give it some type of mmr and call it a day.
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Nope, not even in the wildest and most optimistic scenario is blizzard going to add or want to balance that.
There is a non-zero chance we get rated battlegrounds, but even that is not likely. We can hope to see that at least, but don’t hold your breath for rated arena.
Ret paladin.
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But isn’t Wow:Forever suppose to be “forever and for everyone”. They mentioned solo content for those that want that, group content so on right? People stay around for M+, Arenas so on and if you get rid of one aspect then its not really for everyone. Not all players want to PVE forever. I could be wrong but I honestly feel like if not at the start, potentially later on down the line they would have to add something because RBGs are more dead than arena, plain bgs get boring and in classic you cant even casually do a bg here and there because of all the premade groups. If they really want to have something for everyone they have to provide something for most or it will just bleed into others, no?
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These two are responsible for killing the soul of WoW. They won’t be coming to WoWF. Those and sharding/warmode.
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I feel like people are really missing the point of what reviving the classic servers means.
No.
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No (maybe never)
For BGs yes
This
Seems like the “Updated PvP system” for Forever has something to do with the ranks system. “PvP season” was on the roadmap though so interested to see what that actually means. If I was to guess the rank titles are going to become seasonal.
They are talking most likely about world stuff, and/or mage tower type stuff I think. Not PvP.
I think they will do something with dungeons, but I doubt it’s going to have the progression like M+. When it comes to arena I doubt they ever add it. Not sure why they would considering they already have a version that has that. I doubt they want to have to balance PvP for rated stuff. Honestly they can be more creative with PvP without rated PvP.
PvP is a super small % of the player base. Arena is of course even smaller. I don’t think I am going out on a limb here to say that I wouldn’t get my hopes up for arena, especially in a game mode based on vanilla WoW.
100%
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They have a version of it already but TBC, WotLK also have versions that are just as popular for classic players. It’s not like people dont play it at all in classic versions so it feels like its not a total 0 out they arent gonna do it.
Not everyone likes retail arena, some do prefer older versions and if they plan to have a wow forever theyre gonna have to balance things in general anyway. It’s not like they cant do the this gets a 5% bonus but not in pvp when it comes to pve/pvp balancing too just like retail.
And im aware the solo content is for world but they are still taking into consideration THOSE players. That was the point. You say its for everyone then you have to consider everyone. Not just 90/95/98%….
Ascension did it all and everyone loved it, it just goes to show that giving players what they want, people will stay. They even provided a 1v1 arena for people and it was still used so its not like people dont want that. Even if its 2% player base those people get on to play that and sometimes people will try it just to see what it is.
Then explain it?
Retail arena has a much larger player base than even WotLK I am pretty sure (at least the classic version). Definitely higher than TBC era version. They will stick to bgs and open world PvP for a while, if not forever.
They don’t really cater to the “some” anymore. I think that is pretty obvious. Especially when it comes to PvP. When thy say something for everyone people need to realize that doesn’t really include everything PvP.
Ascension isn’t WoW Forever. WoW: Forever is like a 2026 version of vanilla WoW. People need to realize this.
It’s been explained several times on this thread already. And it’s not hard to understand.
Retail = game that has evolved over the years
classic = original MMORPG feeling where the world is the content
That’s really all you need to know if you don’t want to do your own research and have things explained to you.
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Warrior, actually. DKs are really nothing more than ever so slightly worse warriors.
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It’s not but it literally is using things from Ascension, turtle, so on in which is what wow forever is. It’s not it but it has grab bagged from them both.
No and that also answers your other questions.
It also has a bunch of QoL and such from retail. But again the game is being designed like a classic world version MMO. BGs and Dungeons are probably the most instanced things you will get.
Ion recently said the PvP player base isn’t big enough to justify big changes. Not sure why people think they are going to take arena and such and put it in Forever. Can’t 100% rule it out, but once a rated PvP format (most competitive aspect of WoW by far) is in the game everything for PvP changes. Things become more toxic etc.
I will also point out, with a rated format they they would need to balanced around it, which I don’t think they want to do at all. Nor should they IMO because it kills a lot of the creative stuff they could do with the world and even BGs because things need to be balanced in a rated setting.
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