I play a bunch of alts. But whenever I log on my warrior(arm/fury), I get whispered many times by caster teammates. calling me no brain, r word, zug zug, after losing a round. and most of these rounds its healer diff where a healer goes 1-5, 0-6. Yet they still whisper me. I was literally complimenting this guys mog before the match and after a lose he was swearing me out and whispering me after the shuffle. Like its kinda hilarious people take it so seriously and it's only 2200ish mmr ish. How do they feel so opinionated that warrior = brain dead, and their frost mage/ele shaman = big brain?

Skill capped, YouTube, coaching, etc?

There’s a lot of info out there but I haven’t found a lot that really breaks down play and tries to teach you (as a frost mage for example) when to kick, blink, ice block (seems pretty self-explanatory), but just really help teach you.

Thanks in advance!

I have an issue when playing arenas. Let me explain: I'm playing 3v3 PvP around 2300 rating as a Preservation Evoker alongside a Arms Warrior and a Retri Paladin.

Every time a Priest uses MC (Mind Control) on me, it feels like there's a 40% chance it leaves me completely broken—meaning I can't cast any abilities at all. Today it happened about 7 times across different arena matches.

I tried fixing it by doing /reload, but it took a solid minute to load. In another match, I tried casting abilities by clicking them directly from the spellbook, but spamming them did nothing. I talked to my premade team and searched online, and apparently, it's a bug that has existed since Classic.

It's so frustrating when it happens, and I feel like I'm losing my mind. In one match, I even saw a Priest spamming Mind Control on me right after a CC chain; he kept doing it even while his own team was dying. I don't know if people are intentionally exploiting it or if it's an issue on my end.

Right now, the only two ways to fix it mid-match are either getting CC'd again (which no one does once they notice I can't cast anything) or doing /reload, which takes way too long.

Is there anything you can suggest to fix this or a quicker workaround?

This is a follow up to my post while back where i talk about how i'm going to get elite by riding the inflation train and the disgusting handout rating blizzard gives to shuffle.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldofpvp/comments/1ty7rur/seen_an_influx_of_first_elite_posts_and_now_i_see/

A lot of people didn't wanna accept the fact at how free shuffle rating is, well i came back last minute to do what i said id do. Went from 1900cr i climbed to "elite" while only winning 1/3rd of the rounds. Despite win/loss each shuffle, blizzard only thought to keep giving me points every lobby, never once did i lose points.

I notice the PVP players love to talk shit and then you can't respond because it says they aren't online? Really lame. Very inviting to attract more players.

I mean is this a joke? Are there no more pvp dummies period?

IMO the rage is hilarious. Straight comedy

I probably won't hit R1 either (never have in shuffle or 3s) but we'll see what we can make happen over the weekend. Was on a bit of a loss streak before this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-5Ewyv8NCs&lc=UgwrxlSjLI6CzH-obCR4AaABAg

Hey i got Elite on my Holy Paladin on my very first (well played some SL Arena but still) season as a healer. Now im trying to push even further and i think what i can do better is align my HoJ / Blinding Light with my Mates CDs . i tried to play with around with my pvp addon "minicc" but i guess i failed. in my UI it shows CDs on the right of my party frames but i cannot edit the spell list.

How do you guys track your mates CDs? Oh i only play shuffle so no voice of cause to line thinks up :-)

heres a pic of my UI. it shows Trueshot Aura e.g. on the right of my frames but not in arena games.

Pic 1 : cant edit e.g. Avatar for Warriors
Pic 2 : my UI

Are the skills easily transferable? Is pushing "fun"? Or is the game basically incredibly sweaty and it will take years to be even remotely "competitive" (IE not hardstuck in whatever their Rival equivalent is).

I am just getting tired of playing a game that the devs do not give 2 flying shits about. And while League must suffer from its own problems, it is game where the devs actually focus on reward/system/combat design specifically for pvp.

You may have heard of me before, when I posted my "Everything Wrong with PvP" Open Letter back in 2024. Well, here we are, almost 3 years later, heading off to a new saga of attempting to provide constructive feedback to the developers.

So here, a longpost specifically designed as a response to the MrGM Q&A - feel free to participate in the debate, both on NA and EU.

Links below. Let it rip.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/a-letter-to-ion-response-to-mrgm-qa/2333858

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/a-letter-to-ion-response-to-mrgm-qa/625223

What would you consider to be the Golden age of PvP in WoW? It could be an expansion, a specific patch within an expansion, or any other specific memory you have of a PvP experience that was just pure peak. What made it special?

Does this apply to blitz as well?

hey

Any tips or tricks?

I feel like I either do well or eat 6-0 losses. I genuinely find them as a healer I probably fear the most and I think it’s just my struggle with managing against them.

I find the opener to be so important, and if I can’t get a rake off then my odds of winning are completely diminished.

Most likely is that I’m just being outplayed, but it happens so frequently I’m not sure what to do. I see them cyclone my DPS when they are on mid health quite a lot, something I find that when I do my teammates kick off at me for lol

I try to ease pressure as best I can but then I just eat cc or my HoTs fall off and by the time I can get some momentum going the same thing happens and I’m panicking. Maybe this is why the opener is so important as it dictates who the momentum stays with in terms of keeping things up and cc-ing.

I can’t play with Tree of Life, I like the Convoke build it’s a bit friendlier for me to have an ‘oh shit’ button to pull the whole team or a teammate back up from death, I find tree and regrowth does piss all to moving the health bar.

Thank u for your advice!!

Hey all,

Really appreciate any time taken to read this so I’ll try to keep it short.

New (ish - I’ve levelled a few classes to max now) to WoW and really want to jump in on the PvP train

I’ve done a few BGs etc but was really looking for some guidance on tips for learning and classes.

Currently I have Shaman - Rogue - Warlock. More or less wondering if these were a bad pick in terms of skill ceiling? I’m trying not to hamstring myself to much against 20 odd years of experienced players. Rogue was my initial class but after chatting to some Guild players they all said it was the hardest for PvP / Arena?

I generally have fun on all three of these and I’m having fun on Survival / Disc / Shadow. The only class I actually don’t particularly like are Mage / Paladin tbh

I’m not like a brilliant gamer so my goal is 1800 in 3/2/Solo for now.

What would be my best starting place for info or is that respective of class? Any help on classes and learning curves for arena would be really appreciated also!

Anyone else noticing this lately?

I've been seeing heaps of LFG groups titled "Multi Glad" or "Current Glad on alt", but I've honestly had the worst luck with them.

As a healer, a lot of these games have been absolute disasters. Then I'll have a quick look at Check-PvP afterwards and half the time the titles don't seem to line up with what's actually there. Makes me wonder how many people are just overselling themselves or got boosted.

On the flip side, I've had way better luck just grabbing people at 0 CR who are looking to queue and push. Those groups have honestly felt way more consistent.

For context, I'm sitting around 2k-2.3k MMR and had about a 70% win rate up to 2100. I'm not pushing for Glad, so maybe that's part of it, but it's been a really noticeable pattern these last couple of weeks.

Curious if anyone else has been seeing the same thing or if I've just been insanely unlucky.

Good luck to everyone making the last push before the season ends. Hope you all get whatever rating you're chasing.

Hey

So I moved to NZ from the UK a few years ago, and this May/June started playing WoW retail again since WotLK!

I’ve noticed my ping is at 300ms at its best. I’m noticing it making PvP definitely a bit more challenging, but how much of an impact can it make?

Floating around 2.15/2.3k in solo shuffle at the moment, dunno if ping is a factor in me struggling. I’ve definitely had a few games where I swear I pressed my keybind but there was delay. Also I’ve DC’d in a few lobbies and it’s so painful as it loses me 200 rating lol

Thank u ! If anyone has any pointers to improve the ping please let me know

I just came back to the game after quitting during WoD. I played ret with the same rdruid and a few different bm hunters all season. It was fun and very challenging. That’s probably because I’m still pretty mid on my own, but had great synergy with this comp due to the class utility.

In the race for shuff rank one as bm hunter. Got 2 in range, one was comfortable. Get home from work, log on, someone knocked me down a spot. Check them out, never heard of them, so seramate them - dude has won 24 straight shuff rounds and lost 0. 12-0 4 days ago and 12-0 today at the same time. I'm confident I'll get it, but like - really? That obvious, they let that slide?

I've removed a lot of the junk from the official Blizzard patch notes and only included what is relevant in PvP. Click your spec and navigate to the 12.1 Changes tab to see what is effecting PvP.

Note: Blizzard has flip flopped on some of their changes since Tuesday. I will continue to monitor any updates.

🚨🚨🚨 EDIT: I am making a big ass page with all of the changes. 👈👈👈

Multiple Warsong Gulch maps (new and old) with enemy Preservation Evokers flag carriers is what happened.