You could queue for skirmishes solo (you would automatically get matched with other skirmishers to get to 2/3/5 people) or in a group and you didn't have to be in an arena team. The fight wasn't rated.
It was basically 2v2 "duelling" with random people. Nobody queued for 3v3 or 5v5 skirmishes.
They remove pillars from arena!
Nah too much of a dream...
Every 2 minutes, a huge troll monster like Jinrokh but with old model enters the fight and randomly fixates a player for 5 sec, hitting for 100k.
Nah too much of a dream again...
Yeah, it was awesome for sinking time and also to test out arena macros, addons or talents/glyphs. I still don't get why it was removed, the Wargames feature should have simply been added on top of skirmishes :/ other than the queuing they are the same anyway (I think?).
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Lol. In the early days of arena there would spawn a tornado in the Nagrand arena after some time that moved in random directions and kicked you back. I can't remember anything for the Blade's Edge arena though...
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Old AV. I can dream.
Making resilience baseline? No. That would be stupid.
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Lol awesome, always loved the idea of adding extra mechanics to newer arena maps.
Hate the pillars because they are just too generic and boring, actual tactics on the other hand could cost you the match or you could use it in clever ways to your advantage, could be so much fun imo + would help weaker setups against stronger setups, that problem is indeed annoying.
Is it the new PvP trinkets being tied into a 2 piece set? You get 10 percent resil for having a full set of PvP trinkets.
I don't think that's what it is, since they had to shut down Arenas for it (unless I misunderstood something...). There have appeared some new client strings, you can read it on the front page as well:
This looks like some simple UI changes to me, which wouldn't make sense either though according to my first argument.ARENA_BATTLES_2V2 - 2v2 Arena Battles
ARENA_BATTLES_3V3 - 3v3 Arena Battles
ARENA_BATTLES_5V5 - 5v5 Arena Battles
BEST - Best
BINDING_NAME_FOCUSARENA1 - Focus Arena Enemy 1
BINDING_NAME_FOCUSARENA2 - Focus Arena Enemy 2
BINDING_NAME_FOCUSARENA3 - Focus Arena Enemy 3
BINDING_NAME_FOCUSARENA4 - Focus Arena Enemy 4
BINDING_NAME_FOCUSARENA5 - Focus Arena Enemy 5
BINDING_NAME_TARGETARENA1 - Target Arena Enemy 1
BINDING_NAME_TARGETARENA2 - Target Arena Enemy 2
BINDING_NAME_TARGETARENA3 - Target Arena Enemy 3
BINDING_NAME_TARGETARENA4 - Target Arena Enemy 4
BINDING_NAME_TARGETARENA5 - Target Arena Enemy 5
I'm gonna guess spectator mode for arenas.
i think the exciting new change was pve trinkets that double your int or just give you mini bloodlust. orange cloak will be pretty hilarious when it procs
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I'm guessing spectator mode, especially if they've had to disable arenas totally for it.
That is a great thing, will bring a lot of players back to the game believe it or not.
And I think adding the separation of PVE/PVP abilities would also be worth the time investment. I know it would be a fair bit of dev time, but the amount of players I personally know who would come back if such a change were to happen is quite a bit, and that's just me. If Blizzards main concern is that it would "confuse" players, I think they severely under-estimate their player base. What's confusing about it? Nothing changes in PVE. In PVP the spell/ability still does the same thing, just to a different effect, great thing.
from codes it looks like auto made focus frame keybings or a new kinda ui that allows better focus target options?
You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
That would be a UI change, which has nothing to do with how arena's work. My thoughts now are either skirms still, or joined battlegroups. I also highly doubt it would be a spectator client, why would they need to bring arena's down for that? It's more of a UI change I would assume, not really like implementing something that allows you to solo que. Seems like if it was something big that they would bring the whole servers down.
This might be the best idea I have heard on here. I get tired of running bg after bg sometimes. I love arena but I also don't want to do arena matches undergeared because most people have at least honor gear and winning wouldn't happen often with crafted/pve blues which makes it pointless. I'd love to do some arenas while earning honor, maybe like 180 per win and nothing for a loss just like conquest for rated arena.
Not gonna happen but damn what an idea!