Twinks talking past each other because they think the way they play is the default. I swear to god, if y'all make me break out the race car analogy again....
Just admit most people here are actually dogshit and dont want to use their brain capacity to hit more than 10 buttons. It that simple. Figure it the fuck out already.
Yes, but you (and admittedly I also) missed the OP's point entirely. Crusader gave him somewhat even footing with hunters to at least make casual BGs fun for him. It's not about "competitive PvP" or "challenges" or "skill level" for him (and most other players), but rather about being able to solo queue and have a reasonable opportunity of impacting the outcome of a game, all other variables being somewhat equal (which they're not, and
that is the point).
Yes, he could just roll a hunter or take on the underdog challenge or go to end game instead or other options boring to him, and to most other players. Yes, it's tiring to see players complain about losing their OP-ness (which is admittedly why I dodged this thread for weeks), but your "most players are crap and stop whining about losing your OP enchant" doesn't address the issue.
There is organized pvp out there and it really is spectacular.
Thing is, it requires the kind of coordination and time commitment that people are increasingly not looking for. Derps complaint centers around being able to log on and just casually que randoms. Which is, mostly, the appeal of level 20 play. If we wanted to coordinate pvp in groups of just twinks... why didnt we choose a different bracket? But, nobody wants to casually que up to be a mob to someone elses raid boss. That feels like shit.
I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of fixing the game. But it does seem, increasingly, like the answer on a personal level is to simply stop playing BGs. And if the pvp is the only aspect of the game that appeals to you, the answer is to quit playing altogether. And its a highly understandable decision to make.
To that end, many players indeed made that decision. I don't know how many subs WoW currently sees, but I continue to boggle that on the entirety of the North American server cluster, so few people (twinks and levelers combined) PvP in the 20-29 bracket (arguably one of the largest PvP brackets outside of endgame) that arena skirmishes sometimes don't pop during primetime. No matter how we do the math on that, less than eight people in all of North America typically queue for arena skirmishes during peak times. Less, than, eight. That is staggeringly small.
There are all kinds of answers, all kinds of opportunities for fixing the game. Rather than pull out the laundry list of my "Top Ten Things Blizzard Can Do to Fix WoW", let's focus on the one that pisses me off every time someone replies to a complaint with "get gud".
WoW is a hard game. Like, really hard. And some of you "get gud" turkeys who played it for years forgot just how much work you had to put into learning even the basics of how WoW operates. But here's the thing -- WoW's content isn't hard, especially these days. WoW's difficulty comes from mastering its obtuse interface, and that makes WoW hard in ways that most players,
especially newer players, struggle to overcome.
If we want to learn a first person shooter, or a card game, or a MOBA, or any other established genre of video game, we figure out the basic controls, and then spend the
vast majority of our time learning the content. Sure, we might tweak mouse speed or visual settings, but that takes a tiny amount of time compared to learning abilities and counters, maps, card effects, synergies, and so forth. We spend most of our game time learning, improving, and enjoying the game itself.
Then there's World of Warcraft.
After you installed the game, did you adjust your settings to maximize visual distance? Download addons to track cooldowns and statuses of enemies and teammates, as well as organize your screen? Did you develop macros to combine common spells and abilities? Decide which modifier keys you would use to differentiate targets vs. spells? Bind focus target and target assist? Organize your bars to allow you to move and use abilities at the same time without breaking your fingers? Did you learn which enchants overlap others, which stack, and which don't even proc until later levels, let alone take the time to understand the different proc rates of enchants from different expansions? Did you learn about diminishing returns of stats, and diminishing returns of categories of effects in combat? How about the variations of spells and abilities that change when entering instanced PvP versus
any other time and place in WoW?
WoW is not an accessible game. It has a radically steep learning curve because so much of what there is to know about playing WoW isn't immediately apparent in the game itself, and doesn't become clear when facing other players. While I'm sure we could double the number of examples I provided above, most players (including long-time players) know maybe half of what I listed. Some of the examples aren't that important. Other examples will change how the entire game works for a player.
That's also part of what makes WoW so great. When we do invest the time and effort into customizing and mastering the interface, WoW facilitates player interaction better than any MMO ever made. The bones of WoW are flat out incredible, even if the flesh is rotted.
Just in the last year, Blizzard made some major strides to improve the accessibility of WoW, which gives me a lot of hope for the future of the game. But right now, WoW remains really hard to learn, and it doesn't help that blatant balance problems deter people from even trying in the first place. Yeah, players can "get gud", but WoW itself needs to at least meet them partway.
