Holy crap -- PvP changes

[thedreameater]

I apologize for trolling before. What I love most about this community is the honest, levelheaded players which can only come from people who can afford multiple accounts.

This levels the playing field, but gives the top players a visual distinction. Why do you need a tangible advantage over lesser dedicated players, that's not the reason you do arena. Isn't it to be recognized as a skilled and dedicated player?

1 - Skilled players will still post videos for the rest of us to coo over. You will still be fed praise.

2 - You will still climb to the top of the ladder and face the most skilled opponents for a suitable challenge.

3 - The color distinction is weak, I will admit, but what does it matter? How will a poor skilled player wearing your gear matter?

4 - this is more like Starcraft 2. No gear distinction, just bragging rights and a greater challenge at the top.

[Littleburst]

Why do you need a tangible advantage over lesser dedicated players

Why does it work like that for PVE players. I fully understand your point, which is the same as many previous poster.. But WoW and probably any other MMORPG rewards time invested. Why suddenly change this? (For mainly PVP)

I enjoy slaughtering noobs in pve gear on my quadbox. Preferably 10 at once. Though i am looking forward to rated arena. It just nice to sometimes be able to kill people without it requiring good focus and thought, but just press 2 buttons and see people die. It's much more relaxed.

[coglistings]

I am superbad, so I hide behind better gear AND outnumbering my opponents 5 to 1.

I do this all in the name of pew pew.

If you have issues with 5boxing a person down, buy more accounts to give you an edge. outspend your opponenet until either of you are in the poor house, then use welfare money to keep your accounts alive.

i honestly wish there was a "premier service" for people that have multibple accounts. If i have 4 more accounts than everyone esle, shouldn't I get 5 times better service? 10, 20? where is my ingame achivement, "single handedly paying a blizard exec's salary" achivement??? sam, can I get your opinion here? lolz

[Firstcow]

WoW pvp is not a fair sport, it's not like a shooter or SC2. WoW is designed to feed on the need of people to feel important, powerful or special. Giving different gear makes people feel any of these in any combination. So that's why some people, including me, started 5 boxing, I want to feel powerful, I want to crush my opponents without giving them any chance to retaliate. And then when I'm done killing them, I enjoy sitting on their heads and doing all sort of emotes to make their pain even bigger Childish and immature? Hell yes, but that's what makes WoW fun for me. If I had to always go in fair competition and always have to work hard to win anything, I wouldn't play WoW, I would just play SC2 which is much cheaper due to no sub.

This is why I didn't play arena in all seasons but S8, arena is hard, you can't just out burst your opponents, you have to outskill them, that doesn't make me feel powerful, it makes me feel like I have to work hard. Which is why towards the end of S8 I lost interest as I couldn't make progress after getting 2k rating by outbursting, I actually had to think to win games.

So deep down inside many of you have the same thirst to just ****ing crush someone hard in the ***ing ass, you just don't want to admit it

Edit: BTW, I've stopped playing wow 2 months ago because of the same reason I was enjoying it so much, it made me a power addict when basically I could kill 20+ people in AV matches by myself. It's very much fun, but it's not healthy, gives you a skewed perspective of how the RL world works. Which is why I play SC2 now, which is not as much fun, but at least it doesn't feed my hunger for crushing ass LOL

[Shabu42]

Are you sure they just haven't added the rating requirements yet? They used to not have rating requirements a few seasons ago and said that it was a big mistake so they added the ratings. This would be a complete 180 degree change in direction for them so it would be a bit surprising if they actually did that.

Maybe even a 360 degree turn! :P

[bhec7715]

What people here are failing to mention is that in season 1 there weren't many people complaining about lack of rating requirements. It wasn't a problem until people started selling points in season 2. As is customary for Blizzard, they overkilled it with rating requirements.

The original system was the best system. It was the only thing in wow that allowed you to log on for 30 minutes and work towards gear. Getting 300-400 points a week took you 2.5 months to get a weapon. A 2000 rated arena team was getting that same item in 2.5 weeks. Seems fair to me.

The problem of point selling was fixed with the rule that your pr had to be within 150 points of the tr in order to get the points for that team. After that, all other changes were unnecessary.

I play wow like 6 hours a week. I fail to see how allowing me to have a reason to play hurts anyone else's gaming experience. OMG I got a weapon 3 months after you and in that time you are completely geared and I obtained 1 weapon......also I'm never on for you to be affected...so again...why exactly do you care?

[bhec7715]

WoW pvp is not a fair sport, it's not like a shooter or SC2. WoW is designed to feed on the need of people to feel important, powerful or special. Giving different gear makes people feel any of these in any combination. So that's why some people, including me, started 5 boxing, I want to feel powerful, I want to crush my opponents without giving them any chance to retaliate. And then when I'm done killing them, I enjoy sitting on their heads and doing all sort of emotes to make their pain even bigger Childish and immature? Hell yes, but that's what makes WoW fun for me. If I had to always go in fair competition and always have to work hard to win anything, I wouldn't play WoW, I would just play SC2 which is much cheaper due to no sub.

This is why I didn't play arena in all seasons but S8, arena is hard, you can't just out burst your opponents, you have to outskill them, that doesn't make me feel powerful, it makes me feel like I have to work hard. Which is why towards the end of S8 I lost interest as I couldn't make progress after getting 2k rating by outbursting, I actually had to think to win games.

So deep down inside many of you have the same thirst to just ****ing crush someone hard in the ***ing ass, you just don't want to admit it

Edit: BTW, I've stopped playing wow 2 months ago because of the same reason I was enjoying it so much, it made me a power addict when basically I could kill 20+ people in AV matches by myself. It's very much fun, but it's not healthy, gives you a skewed perspective of how the RL world works. Which is why I play SC2 now, which is not as much fun, but at least it doesn't feed my hunger for crushing ass LOL

LOL.....10/10 for honesty. Yeah using instant lavas on some poor sap is pretty fun. Or busting 5 shocks and 5 thunders on a war that decides to BS you.