Hi All,
I rarely (if ever) post a topic here on General forums. I sometimes visit, but the sheer unmitigated vitriol, spite and aggro that I'm seeing posted here is disgusting.
It's almost ALL related to Arena's and the constant buff/nerf cycle that's rippling out and affecting EVERYONE due to the constant and consistent bloody QQ'ing that is flooding every single damned forum here.
I raid, i 'sometimes' PVP, but this whole Arena nonesense has to stop!
When Arena's were announced I thought to myself 'here goes the neigbourhood' and 'wow deathmatch' aka a fantasy First person shooter based on WoW.
If they wanted to make a spin off game where you export your toon to and run it that way.. FINE, all for it. Create seperate forums and let all the hate/bile fill THOSE forums.
But the problem is that Arena's exist within the larger framework of WoW, which is predominately PVE based with some PVP add-ons to it.
Arena's are wrecking the community who share this hobby, it's attracted people who are obsessed with loot, 'p0wning faces' and people screaming for buffs to their pet class and nerfs to every other class, just look at the damned class forums to see what i'm on about.
WoW Arena should be a SEPERATE GAME/PAST TIME based on WoW, not integrated into WOW.
I'm sick of looking at every patch note these days and seeing more and more Arena inspired buffs/nerfs, some of which (as of 2.4 especially) are going to affect those of us who have NOTHING TO DO WITH these damned Arena's.
Blizzard need to do something, here's my suggestion:
A) Make WoW-Arena a seperate game entirely, let people 'export' their characters across and run it a bit like GuildWars, a pure PVP based Deathmatch style of game/system, change abilities... buff/nerf to your hearts conent in this seperate framework.
OR
B) Make Arena's use a different set of abilities to normal WoW, this is already partly implemented.. with some things not allowed to be used in arena's and so forth. Make the abilities/classes/skills/talents have 'different' behaviour for Arena's as opposed to normal WoW.
I know this would be difficult to do, but the fundamentally the regular WoW content and this 'Arena' content are completely different games, with completely different goals and progress paths.
Us who like to PVE/Raid etc are getting increasingly sick and tired of this Arena inspired hate that's filling the forums these days.
Get rid of Arena's, put PVP back where it belongs, BattleGrounds and world PVP.
Thanks for reading my post.