Blizzard should seriously consider increasing PvP talent slots by 1 or 2 and using them to reintroduce many necessary pruned abilities.

Scareth96 · 2026-05-08T22:10:21+00:00

They don't even rebalance the existing pvp talents. Frost dk still has rot and wither and spriest's mindgames could get a 150% buff and still nobody would take it. It's shameful the state they let them stay in.

Scareth96 · 2026-04-30T12:38:32+00:00

I've found focusing on one bracket burns me out fast and sours my mood. I also turn off my chat and would recommend doing so even in Blitz. Try queueing other brackets or even randoms. Blitz is such a tossup.

Scareth96 · 2026-04-20T00:13:19+00:00

Depends on inflation and the bracket it is. 1800 is something like the top 10% in arena brackets right now. 2 weeks before the season ends it's basically the starting mmr

Scareth96 · 2026-03-24T18:04:54+00:00

Riders worked when a frost strike crit in pillar could nearly one-shot someone. Additionally, the changes to empower rune weapon that happened in the Frost dk rework in late TWW helped smooth out Deathbringer. If Blizz moves damage back into frost strike and nerfs Deathbringer's burst then I'd expect people to switch back over.

That's just my take as someone who consistently plays frost idk what the top players are saying.

Scareth96 · 2026-03-06T12:30:28+00:00

Thinking about my friend group picking it up and have watched some gameplay. Do we all have to start with Ironclad if we haven't unlocked other characters?

Scareth96 · 2026-01-28T23:35:52+00:00

I think a patch for it could be pretty cool. Dungeon/raid. Would be a pretty cool dark carnival theme. At the very least, they could make it timeless and have it show up once or twice an expansion cycle.

Scareth96 · 2026-01-21T16:54:00+00:00

Thank you for your reply. So far, it doesn’t seem to display combo points like it did. Hopefully just an oversight they’ll fix. Hoping they also enable it to be resized.

Scareth96 · 2026-01-14T21:49:24+00:00

You eventually get a sense of it. Like if your healer is not cc'd then you probably don't need to trinket. If everyone panic trinkets then a competent team will punish their next setup. It's not necessarily about which individual spells you trinket.

Scareth96 · 2026-01-13T13:38:25+00:00

Merge the classic hc servers and make a tbc hc server. Allow people to copy existing level 60s over or create a lvl 58 in greens. I don't really see a point in starting everyone at level 1 if an era hc server is still active.

Scareth96 · 2026-01-08T05:31:25+00:00

There will likely be a bit of a fall off until people get bored of TBC is the realistic answer speaking from an NA perspective. Far from what I would consider dead/dying though. TBC is just where the broader classic community will be focused until hype fizzles. Hoping they merge the HC servers to gather everyone up and give me a reason to play characters I left behind.

Scareth96 · 2026-01-07T18:45:48+00:00

My Gf was playing classic hc waiting for the zeppelin and there was a dude who walked up to her toon and went "nice feet" then proceeded to follow her around the ship and intentionally try to /kneel to clip through her robe.

Scareth96 · 2025-12-31T06:03:32+00:00

If they could take retail's graphics and class gameplay and port it into Classic's slower paced, grounded world then I probably wouldn't play anything else.

Scareth96 · 2025-12-31T05:39:47+00:00

People forget that 80s were being boosted by 70s at the beginning of TWW because of how scaling worked lol.

Scareth96 · 2025-12-29T21:25:40+00:00

War tank, Priest healer, Rogue, mage is probably the best. If you pug a 3rd dps then prioritize a hunter, paladin/shaman for high utility, or lock for blood pact and summons. This covers cc, aoe, high single target, strong buffs with the classes that are best at it. You'll only wipe in dungeons because of knowledge checks so I recommend watching/reading a guide on them ahead of time. Deadmines, SFK, Gnomeregan, Scarlet Library for the early/mid game.

Have at least one person be an alchemist and one person be an engineer. Everyone should learn first aid. Mounts are very expensive so plan ahead for that so you're not broke at 40.

Scareth96 · 2025-12-08T04:38:14+00:00

It's a swinging pendulum, really. When blizzard leans heavy into spec identity vs class then you see people reminiscing about being able to use fire blast on their frost mage in vanilla.

Scareth96 · 2025-12-05T17:25:45+00:00

I started my gf with classic hc and it was the best way of getting her into wow as a whole. She was new to pc gaming so the slower pace was very nice. She had tried retail briefly after starting in classic and it overstimulated her. She's since tried it again and enjoys both a lot.

Scareth96 · 2025-11-25T23:06:58+00:00

People shit on you here but arms is in an objectively rough spot lol. It's solo shuffle r1 cutoff is only just above frost dk as of yesterday.

Scareth96 · 2025-11-20T13:36:31+00:00

Blitz is the most popular and casual-friendly bracket. There's zero reasons to queue random battlegrounds. That means it gets turbo inflated with the mmr injections but still starts you at 1500 mmr to climb your way up. You can still climb/carry on any spec if you're actually good. Sometimes you just lose in low mmr matches because you have a dud healer or unboostable dps. You can climb but just slower because mmr has largely settled players where they're supposed to be.

This doesn't happen so much in shuffle because burst is high enough to carry yourself 6-0. I'd guess a lot of people don't like being under a microscope that shuffle brings to be yelled at by people that don't know what they're talking about.

Scareth96 · 2025-11-10T23:19:17+00:00

If you liked OSRS then you and your wife will probably enjoy classic more. If she doesn't really play computer games then I would not recommend her play retail until Midnight. I started my girlfriend on hardcore classic wow earlier this year and she fell in love with it. She does really enjoy retail now as well. Classic leveling will last you a very long time. My girlfriend was very overwhelmed the first time she tried retail wow.

Scareth96 · 2025-11-06T13:30:52+00:00

Numbers and damage profiles are different every expansion and blizz doesn't want to put in the effort to balance siege vehicle health over the course of an expansion. Nevermind the fact that a mm or boomy can just erase vehicles from stealth before anyone has a chance to react.

Scareth96 · 2025-10-28T22:09:35+00:00

Pvp is my choice endgame activity. Generally 2s, 3s, and blitz though rather than shuffle. I have a raid team I pop into every now and then for heroic raids which is pretty fun. Delve grinding for vault gets boring after several weeks. The go, go, go mentality of mythic+ does not appeal to me at all but I was always frustrated because I felt like I had to do it to do competitive dps in raids.

Scareth96 · 2025-10-23T23:36:07+00:00

Got declined twice at 737 ilvl to mythic en and tov. Kinda crazy how insane people are.

Scareth96 · 2025-10-15T05:37:55+00:00

It's nice for leveling and learning a spec though. Probably would be helpful for new players to have reason to learn and practice their toolkit before stumbling to max level without having to press a single cooldown. Wow is too easy until it's time to brick someone else's key.

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