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Blizzard: "LK seasons have been pretty diverse"
After weeks of mostly silence on the PvP front, Blizzard starts to talk about balance from Wrath moving into Cataclysm.
By Michael 'Zechs' Radford
May 28, 2010 22:59
After weeks of mostly silence on the PvP front, Blizzard starts to talk about balance from Wrath moving into Cataclysm.When it comes to an issue as complicated as PvP balance it is often hard to see where Blizzard is coming from. But today they hit the PvP forums with a vengeance to discuss exactly that. "Balance" means two different things to Arena players," said Ghostcrawler. "For some players, the most important thing is for their favorite spec to be viable." On he other hand "some players might even be happy with only RMP as a viable 3s comp, so long as the matches felt like they were won by skill and not by cheesy maneuvers or dumb luck."
The infamous blue poster claimed that Blizzard strives to hit both of those targets. But he admitted that isn't always what happens: "it is also realistic to choose one as the higher priority goal." Blizzard set their target for making all specs viable during WoTLK. Although GC doesn't feel that this worked 100% he did suggest that it had some success: "overall we've had a lot of success there relative to past seasons. The LK seasons have been pretty diverse."
Moving forward into the Cataclysm expansion, Ghostcrawler said that this design is the reason behind the focus on battelgrounds. "They put less emphasis on the class composition of the teams and more on the coordination of the team," he said. Quite how true that is remains to be scene but he did go onto qualify it somewhat:
Never the less, the fact that a forum thread about PvP balance was directed into battleground talk is alarming to arena fans. However, Blizzard has previously stated that "battleground focus" is not the same as completely ignoring arenas.
Source: MMO-Champion
The infamous blue poster claimed that Blizzard strives to hit both of those targets. But he admitted that isn't always what happens: "it is also realistic to choose one as the higher priority goal." Blizzard set their target for making all specs viable during WoTLK. Although GC doesn't feel that this worked 100% he did suggest that it had some success: "overall we've had a lot of success there relative to past seasons. The LK seasons have been pretty diverse."
Moving forward into the Cataclysm expansion, Ghostcrawler said that this design is the reason behind the focus on battelgrounds. "They put less emphasis on the class composition of the teams and more on the coordination of the team," he said. Quite how true that is remains to be scene but he did go onto qualify it somewhat:
"The fewer number of players involved, and the more the goal is centered around killing someone then [sic] accomplishing objectives, then the more important the number and power of individual tools belonging to a single spec become. Once you go to even a 10-player team, then there is a lot more flexibility and historically under-represented Arena specs can come into their own. It's easier to have synergy the larger the team size and even double up on some classes and specs rather than have so much power determined by whose crowd controls don't diminish with each other. "
Never the less, the fact that a forum thread about PvP balance was directed into battleground talk is alarming to arena fans. However, Blizzard has previously stated that "battleground focus" is not the same as completely ignoring arenas.
Source: MMO-Champion
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And yeah. Shoot Ghostcrawler in the face with a magnum rifle and bring back the epicness of TBC arena instead of wrath of the globalled king.
Healers rulezzz, on Arena and BG... You never win BG whitout healers.. where is "a 10-player team, then there is a lot more flexibility and historically " ???
Blizzard: "LK seasons have been pretty SUX!"