Blizzard developers have amnesia, and Ring of Valor should and will be removed

When evaluating the PVP in WOTLK it seems likely to imagine that all of the Blizzard developers were in some sort of vehicle collision, and have complete amnesia about everything that occurred in both vanilla WoW and TBC.

In fact, that can probably be the only logical explanation behind some of their design decisions, such as:

- Environmental damage being added into the Ring of Valor, after they tried it in S1 in Nagrand but removed it.

- Removing Mace Stun because RNG is stupid, but then adding in a chance to be able to execute for 14k from 100% health.

- Making an arena without LoS for the first half a minute, when matches are usually decided in that time.

- Scaling damage to a point that rivals the experience of vanilla WoW.

The ****** up part is, the list seriously goes on, but I'm too ******* lazy to list all the reasons that Blizzard is ******* dumb so I'm just going to go on with my original point (which I can't even remember).

Orgrimmar Arena



Aside from the really obvious points like no ******* LoS (making it a free win for like any ******* Hunter team), the arena itself is actually buggy as ****.

Like 5 times I have been left behind on the floor of the arena while the elevators go up without me. You get teleported up after like 10 seconds, but 10 seconds is way long enough for one of your team members to die without you. What is even worse is that the enemy team can actually target and kill you like you were standing still on the top of the elevator, which I guess can kind of be countered (although you don't get stuff like Anti Magic Zone while down there) but when you first realize you can be targetted and die to 2 AP mages for 28 points, it's pretty ******* balls.

There is a second variation of this that can also work in your favor / against you, where you get stuck in a corner like half way up the shaft (shaft like penis lol) as the elevator is rising, and you can heal people standing on the squares but can't be targetted. It was pretty ******* sweet winning 18 points when this happened to me in 3s while I PI free-casted into my DK and Warrior, but pretty ******* aids when I've lost 20+ points to it as well.

Another thing is the constant DC's. I don't know if people have realized yet, but if you fear people near / on top of the pillars (while they are in the ground) grats on instantly DCing them.

Holy **** I've DC'd like 5 times (before I knew what it was) while trying to kite melee on top of the pillar / being near it for when it was going to raise, and then getting one fear and being booted to log in screen. The fact that this is STILL in the game (AND FEAR STILL ISN'T ******* FIXED FROM VANILLA WOW ARE YOU ******* KIDDING ME) is ******* hilarious, but really not that surprising when you consider that Dark Pact (taking mana from your pet, the Warlock spell) still destealths everyone within 100 yards.

Knowing these things however can make Ring of Valor a free win for our 5v5 when you get pre-gate divine hymn + DCing people near pillars if the match is still going after 30 seconds. Normally I wouldn't condone exploiting (rofl nah I actually would and do all the time) but pretty much the only way to get Blizzard to actually pay attention and fix this **** is to have people know about it. And by fix this **** I mean remove it entirely, since they can't even fix a small known bug with reflective ******* shield, so they are making it only work on yourself until they "rebuild the whole spell" for a future patch.

Enjoy.