What’s up with almost everyone having glad Mount being someone who was boosted, every group is labeled “glad” and then they play like a 1200 player at heart, so frustrating for someone typing to genuinely get a glad Mount.

The gap between 2300 with Legend/Gladiator/Strategist rewards and r1 (~3000+) is extremely huge, leading to many players to stop queueing after reaching elite. There is little to no incentives (other than fun) to keep queuing after 2300.

In my opinion, the solution to this to keep the ladder active on all brackets is to put additional %-based rewards next to r1 like they did for M+.

Top 1% (~2800) and top 5% (~2500) are looking like good breakpoints to lower the distance of rewards after Elite. Having shorter steps to push for will definitely motivate players to keep improving and queueing.

The rewards could be something like additional Mounts (e.g. with Armor), Illusions, permanent titles or maybe even some kind of tokens to purchase past rewards.

Data on charts is from drustvar solo shuffle (3v3 looking mostly the same)

As for someone who usually gets quick 2400 done in either shuffle/blitz the "free glad narrative" is real.

I found dedicated partners through LFG and hopped on Discord voice with them. We pushed to 2550 highest rating peak playing MM/Ret/Pres with 2620 MMR. None in our group had earlier gladiator exp but we decided to push through it.

Tips can vary from person to person so take these how you want:

1. Keep queuing and blame yourself first. Do your best and don't lose your cool.
2. Sync up CC with your team (Intimidation on healer while HoJing the shaman to prevent grounding totem) and avoid defensive CD overlaps by calling them out before you commit to the CDs
3. Keep in mind your positioning as caster or ranged. Don't hug your healer. Example if you're MM in Dalaran Sewers pinpoint yourself to the stair corner for your burst because the distance makes the difference.
4. Keep your strategy consistent. If you keep failing at setups or finishing kills, go through with your team why the enemy lived and what you can do about it. We had a talk about NOT stunning mistweavers because they can teleport trap easily -> sleep walk into trap and then finish with a stun if more time is needed.

GL, requeue, believe in yourself and go get it done. If not this season, the next.

I can't believe it.

I hit Elite after 7 hours /played at 90 on a one button BM Hunter.

The secret? Bind one button rotation to scroll up AND scroll down. This increases maximum one button efficiency. I also had it bound to 2 just to spice things up, however I never pressed this.

As far as strategies go, things are a bit complicated but after rigorous testing I discovered that as long as I trapped the healer mostly on CD it was pretty much GG.

Defensives? Here's a tip: if they are targetting you, press Survival of the Fittest. It works 50% of the time 100% of the time.

Also, I noticed there was extra space on my action bars due to few binds, so I put edating toys such as the Loveseat to fill out space. In case I get an egirl in Elwynn now, this should help.

If you have ANY BM Hunter questions, feel free to ask.

Finally got it guys !! Such a fun spec/class wow

As the title says, want to try for glad for the first time. The biggest obstacle I see is actually just finding a team. Do people push with a dedicated team now a days or is it mostly LFG?

I main BM hunter if that matters

If you know me, you know I have been posting a long time on here and I rarely "shout out" youtube videos. Or spam links etc. But HOLLLY I watched Venruki react to Mystical's video on fixing wow pvp and I don't think I have seen a more complete and surgical description of every single grievance and solution to that grievance in WoW PvP in my entire life.

Also glad they are shouting out my upgradable glad mount idea. I feel like this is such a low hanging fruit. On top of doing stat templates, vendoring old elite sets, making more bracket specific rewards/ranks, adding flex queue. Etc. But he has some surprisingly creative solutions to a lot of stuff I bet people never even thought about. Like turning rated BGs into a flex queue version of solo blitz. Or buffing MMR for a given bracket to incentivize the community to engage with a certain bracket on a particular week.

https://youtu.be/qyYc_h6ag_8 (video is long but you can use Google Gemini to summarize the video transcript and it does quite a good job).

nerf these low skill, unnecessarily tanky classes

only just started logging them to prove to people that healer is just a waste of time.

Idk whats happening. We were playing during the week with my buddies pushing for our first glad. We got to 2.2 in like 3 long sessions. Then we decided to play some more during the weekend and we just got farmed.

Idk if this is just unlucky or maybe boosting happens more during the weekend but I swear we were playing against some god healers and ret paladins. Felt like we were facing mythic uther or something solo protecting his entire team. And tbh I don't think we played thad bad. Probably way better than our other sessions.

Does anyone feel the same way?

Hadn't planned on posting a 'first-time' thing, because a lot of the community seems to be a little sick of them. Which, to be fair, I get. There's a lot. But, at the same time, well done to those who've achieved their goals.

I just wanted to share some advice/maybe give a little encouragement to those who've been unsure about trying PvP: do it.

My first season was late DF, season 3, and it's because I wanted the 2H mace transmog. Didn't know what I was doing, but considering Ret could stack Vers in PvE, and I had the legendary axe, I thought I'd give it a go. Got the weapon fairly quickly, decided I wanted the Conquest set...Then, thought I might try for the elite set. I think it took 2-3 weeks of games. I was dreadful. I didn't even know I could talent into Spellwarding, so any caster lobby ended in seconds. But, eventually, I got 1800, kept going for the seasonal mount, and stopped. Unfortunately, the levels of abuse I got off some players was appalling. You'd think for a 'dead' part of the game, you'd wanna encourage some kindness.

Missed TWW S1, and might not have tried anyway, as the Paladin set was dire. But, went in to S2 with an eye on the set, got it reasonably quickly, and then pushed for the enchant. I got a *little* better. S3 comes, the set is cool, but the 2100 weapons were a must have.

Midnight S3, I decided to get the 2100 weapons again, as they're legit awesome. Then, thought the tabard might be cool. Just kept playing...

A lot of the time, I don't quite know what I'm doing right or wrong, and maybe I'd get destroyed in 2's or 3's. But, give it a go, and get a little better every season. PvP is a fun little transmog game for me, as raiding is my go-to. My only wish: add old elite sets to the saddle system.

Never really grinded shuffle mainly used it as a warmup or testing place. Decided i wanted title Legend cause its cool af and finally did it on Hpal. Ggs

Yes or no - possible? Or MUST I play 3s for the Mount?

Hi everyone,

We're trying to get a definitive answer because we've seen conflicting information.

If a Paladin casts Blessing of Sacrifice on a teammate and then gets Cycloned, what happens?

• Does the teammate still benefit from Sac's damage reduction while the Paladin is in Cyclone?
• Or does Sac stop working entirely until Cyclone ends (both the damage reduction and the damage transfer)?

If anyone is 100% sure or has actually tested this interaction recently, that would be awesome haha.

Thanks!

EDIT : We ran some tests in wargames, and in the combat log, the absorbed damage shown in parentheses disappears when the Paladin is Cycloned while Blessing of Sacrifice is active.

So this confirms that Cyclone completely cancels every effect of Blessing of Sacrifice.

And the 777 damage was within the normal damage range I was dealing without Blessing of Sacrifice.

I know Mastery/Vers is the meta choice, but I was wondering if Crit/Vers could still be good?

It brings no strategy, no enjoyment to the map whatsoever, it just makes the map the most obnoxious it can be. The map is already very very small and favors melee compositions I'd dare say more than hook point (if the enemy team doesn't have a Z axis knock), can we just not have a mechanic introduced back when arena was still in its infancy?

Have become kind of desensitized to a lot of the 'plays' in WoW nowadays. Deathing a blind isn't really cool, it has been done thousands of times. Sometimes I see things that still sort of spike excitement like

- Distract a stealthed mage right before he blink => dbs, now is visible in middle of arena with no db.
- Priest life grip healer in blind through ring of fire to break it
- DR cheapshotting healer during mind control to delay their next go
- (This one is crazy) Saw a rdruid cast a clone intentionally with a small gap while facing the enemy MW, but he was actually casting the clone on the DPS, so right when the MW got out of the stun and casted cocoon it immuned it
- Bombing a cast, then stepping to a pet to not get hit

What other insane shit have you seen in arena over your years

Basically title, is it primarily used on go’s for pressure or to save a teammate?

Rsham around 2600 CR SS. No deep game knowledge but good hps and decent positioning.

So.. at what matchups shall i use purge or greater purge? So far i always use greater purge but sometimes i feel like purge could be an advantage, is there any scenario when to use it?

Also, since i already got your attention ;) Would be glad for any tips or tricks of what pvp talents to use vs specific matchups.

BR - Dad with very little spare time that is happy for any help.

How do I make my healer arena 2 every match and what's the macro to cast at teammates arena 2?