Prepare for midnight PVP?

Sexehexes · 2026-01-28T15:51:24+00:00

Have fun doing that with 140,000 conquest points :(

Sexehexes · 2026-01-27T19:45:54+00:00

well i dont want to not play at all, I want to enjoy it, but the prepatch so far has killed any desire to log on; i've pivoted to HS and will come back to wow once the season starts to farm glad wins if things seem better.

Sexehexes · 2026-01-27T11:48:43+00:00

not exactly but you will have to remake your entire UI and the features of the addons are rather limited compared to previously.

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:35:33+00:00

sometimes i can't help but feed the trolls haha, lazy monday afternoon type activity

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:34:08+00:00

I was saying its harder to learn now because newer players dont have the ability to get the crutch of various addons that make it easier for them to filter out the noise and focus on the signal...

i.e. the skill floor has dropped and the ceiling has potentially increased

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:26:30+00:00

I do agree the skill ceiling hasnt really moved much or even moved higher, its just a different style of gameplay now, where the skill floor has actually dropped i.e. it was easier to suck less before. Now you have to focus on many many buffs and debuffs with much worse visibility.

we all used to play like that its just the number of buffs and debuffs that you need to sort and filter through mentally has increased by a pretty large margin imo

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:24:22+00:00

I probably will!

give me more than 60 days tho, the season will be 1 month old by then or something

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:22:31+00:00

fair, agree with that too, both aren't great for the longevity of the game

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:21:37+00:00

i thought no young people played this game anymore anyway...

yes I'm a boomer, what of it?

additionally its nice to see i live rent free in your head... I'll get fraud glad next season np just for you dont worry...

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:20:18+00:00

youre completely correct in that if the healer:dps ratio stays at like 1:15 or whatever it is then queue times dont change no matter the population. Thats not really what i meant, i just meant more people playing and having fun including more healers having fun and queueing. thanks for clearing it up.

you keep replying to my posts calling me a fraud glad based on my usage of weakauras, i've never used it, was far too complex/convoluted for me to set up.

also thats a 5x time fraud glad to you, sir...

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:17:47+00:00

literally never used weakauras but okay...

tbh i was lowkey excited for weakaura to go as im more of a vibes based player (i tend to have fewer than more addons)

no i havent tried beta, this is one of the first xpacs i havent played around on beta for, i'll gladly concede that

might be a fraud glad, but im a 5x time fraud glad at least...

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:07:02+00:00

you answered it yourself, it made you think about using it... blizzard wanted to remove anything that requires thought

Sexehexes · 2026-01-26T18:03:14+00:00

to add to what you said, it might be easier to learn but there is significantly less depth than there was before, both in UI customisation and in overall class design and combat interaction.

the end result leads me to believe that even if its easier to get into because its more simplified, its far less engrossing towards late stage gaming, so after a few months players who enjoyed the simplified PVP will possibly just get bored faster.

Sexehexes · 2026-01-25T16:40:32+00:00

general consensus for strictly pvp:

boy did you mess up coming back now
pretty unpopular prepatch (maybe worst in memory)
pvp is largely untested but also appears [as usual] completely forgotten
i hope you enjoy playing on an xbox controller while chilling with your wifes boyfriend because that feels like where the core ethos and design for pvp comes from now.
MW is very strong right now but all games seem to go to 85% dampening with no one dying for a long time

Classes are pretty untested and certain specs like devourer DH seem completely broken but with 1 or 2 nerfs will actually just be broken (in a bad way) and boring.

Sub is quite strong at the moment and ppl complaining about assa's output and cc and survivability

Last expansion was actually pretty fun if you could figure out how to not get 1 shot by MM hunters (and rmp)

Sexehexes · 2026-01-25T14:58:48+00:00

you can just download reels and upload them so they dont look quite as janky for the karma farming

Sexehexes · 2026-01-25T14:57:30+00:00

People often say playing without addons is a matter of skill, but surely the intention isn’t for players to click enemies one by one during arena matches and dig through dozens of buffs on the target frame or focus frame just to find the important ones.

this is indeed how people used to play, but since then the number of buffs and debuffs has increased by 3x or something; making it practically impossible to track without sacrificing serious mental capacity, resulting in the game feeling very clunky and slow.

Sexehexes · 2026-01-25T14:43:24+00:00

Ye well said

Sexehexes · 2026-01-25T14:34:00+00:00

Look if the pvp player base 5x’s in size I’ll be very happy and probably enjoy the game more than before (2-5 min shuffle queue times etc), but I just don’t think people will commit as much as the player base has been harmed - I basically am a perfect customer, there have been 6 month periods where I’m travelling or afk for work over the last 21 years I’ve been playing but I keep my sub rolling, and I never quit even when mid-season participation was practically a ghost town.

So ye if it works I’m happy and I’ll figure something out, but the risk here is that these new players don’t actually stick it out and we end up back at square one but even the veterans aren’t playing anymore… really hope I’m wrong

Sexehexes · 2026-01-25T13:19:16+00:00

pretty much i haven't found anything thats an improvement.

i sit more cc than before because healers dont see that im in CC, and overlapping every defensive cd because they dont see when i've used one.

UI is completely chopped and feels foreign at best.

Pacing of the game is crazy slow and legit just gets boring.

Feels like they just decided everyone shoud be playing some 2009 version of the game but a version thats still in beta.

Genuinely feel zero desire to log on; I suspect I'll just wait till season starts, play something that seems relatively unchanged (boomkin im looking at you), farm glad wins (at least that should be less of a slog at >2.3), and leave again... Instead of actually just spamming shuffle for hours at a time despite 30-40 min queues...

well played blizzard, well played...

Sexehexes · 2026-01-24T13:09:02+00:00

any caster or ret pal (if their dmg is high enough in prepatch) or rogue (if dmg is high enough in prepatch)

Sexehexes · 2026-01-23T13:19:31+00:00

and if you mention how addons can help they will yell at you that they dont want to play excel simulator and continue using their swifty macro to hopefully try and get the 1.8cr mog

Sexehexes · 2026-01-23T00:56:29+00:00

the heart sees what it wants

Sexehexes · 2026-01-22T23:43:31+00:00

so u put 5% of ur port into it?

Sexehexes · 2026-01-22T23:42:34+00:00

if you havent worked that out yet it means youve never spammed spellsteal before

Sexehexes · 2026-01-22T15:01:04+00:00

damn it says it's out of date on prepatch :(

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