How do you PvP?



My work sched­ule can be some­times a bit com­pli­cated so that screws up my raid­ing times. For that rea­son, I lev­eled a Draenei Shadow Priest to have fun in PvP.

And I love it. Nowa­days, 80% of my play­time is on him. I only log on Tepisor when I can raid.

I find PvP rather enjoy­able pro­vided you find the right groups to do it with. Sure, honor farm­ing is still bor­ing (but not that hard) mainly because of peo­ple not hav­ing a clue how to play dif­fer­ent BGs (every­one hates the guys fight­ing in the mid­dle, right?).

I mainly enjoy duels and world PvP. I love it when I per­fectly time a silence or a fear and that gets me the win. I hate it when they are resisted or I don’t focus enough to cast them right. I also despise rogues.

My gear is not great. I float around 150 Resilience which is really low. At the moment I’m sav­ing honor for when s4 starts. Hope­fully I’ll be able to buy at least 2 Guardian items.

I have also started Arena in 2vs2 bracket with a Rogue part­ner. Which brings me to the rea­son I started this post anyway.

I started the team 2 weeks ago. Went 2–8 and we stopped at around 1400 rat­ing. Next week I got me another part­ner (mainly because the first one has his focus on PvE at the moment — both are friends I trans­fered from Karazhan with). We went 16–24 and stopped at 1366 rating.

I have no prob­lem with that. I know I still suck and I need to learn a good deal more. So, fol­low­ing my con­stant thirst for knowl­edge, I was brows­ing the are­na­junkies forums and came across this thread. I couldn’t help but smile in a very evil way. Why? I don’t really know. I’ve heard so much drama about win traders and such so this mea­sure seems a good one even to it hit some inno­cent play­ers. Appar­ently they pun­ished even the peo­ple who joined a team of win traders, even after they left. So if you were ever in a team with some­one doing that, even tho you had no idea what they were doing and/or you never did it your­self, you prob­a­bly suf­fered as well.

Arena is fun and I like play­ing it. But I can’t help but think that the sys­tem is kind of flawed. Why?

At least 5 teams we faced had a booster in them

I’m rather ok with this and appar­ently it’s not against the pol­icy. It’s like boost­ing your friend in a instance to get bet­ter gear. Xal­davar, Bliz­zard poster said:

The method of boost­ing a team by ask­ing great play­ers to help within your team is fine. In a sport­ing sense, it’s like pay­ing for the ser­vices of a world class sport­ing per­sona to play with a local vil­lage foot­ball club.

I don’t care if you payed that per­son to boost you. It isn’t against any rules. But it still feels bit­ter loos­ing to those teams.

At least 10 teams we faced we’re S3/Vengeful

Now this I don’t get. Last week we some­how man­aged to get near 1500 then started get­ting teams that clearly out geared us. Why? I think that they started a new team just to get it high and then sell it. I’m rather unde­cided on my posi­tion here. For instance, we all need gold. I’m dead bored of quest­ing, prob­a­bly so are they. What’s the eas­i­est way to make money and hav­ing “fun”? Sell arena teams. See where I’m get­ting? I don’t want to judge here because it’s not up to me to do it, but again, it’s frus­trat­ing loos­ing just because of fac­ing bet­ter geared teams in low brackets.

I’m no PvP expert and still got lots to learn even before being decent. But how do you PvP?

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2 Responses to “How do you PvP?”

1. Naissa says:

   19/05/2008 at 22:09

   I adore PvP. Its like the most fun thing in the game to me, but recently arena has been get­ting on my nerves. I just started doing arena again about 3 weeks ago. Not com­pet­i­tively like I used to, just for fun. Start­ing in the 1500 bracket (So right off the bat) we started fight­ing against peo­ple that were Full S3 + S3 weapons. Of 10 or so games we played the other night only 3 of them didn’t have some­one that was full venge­ful and only 1 of those 3 didn’t have some­one with the S3 weapons. Bleh!!!

   I don’t mind los­ing in arena, but I do mind los­ing to peo­ple with full S3 in the 1500 bracket.

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2. Tepisor says:

   19/05/2008 at 22:12

   I don’t mind los­ing in arena, but I do mind los­ing to peo­ple with full S3 in the 1500 bracket.

   That’s exactly the issue I’m hav­ing. Thanks for say­ing it bet­ter than me.

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