My life as a mediocre warlock lately

[Daeva]

sad pathetic scrubs, this is why i dont pvp except for random BGs for fun

My enthusiasm for Legion PvP just went back down to zero. I haven't played in quite awhile and didn't know PvP was even worse now with this much cheating..

[Lulbalance]

sad pathetic scrubs, this is why i dont pvp except for random BGs for fun

so you don't pvp because a lock cast-sequence script exists? hardcore, man.

[Deleted]

I tried playing my affliction resto lock but it's so so so so fucking immobile. In group pvp you have 0 ways to escape a 1vX. If you remain behind for whatever reason, you get piled up on. Even shadow priests and elemental shamans have decent gap makers. Can't play like this.

[Professor Expert]

That's a dreadful list. Yeah, I find DDoSing to be the most vile shit you can pull off. How do other games protect themselves against such cheaters? I'm sure popular e-sports must have some sort of defence against such scumbaggery.

For DDoS, unfortunately, there isn't a lot you can do other than avoiding public chats. Make sure that if you log onto a voice server, that the admin isn't going to share your IP with those you're playing against, etc. Would be nice if blizzard just made a better voice feature as part of the game so that you could use battle.net as the voice chat server for those who want to use voice.

I'm generally a competitive person, but not to the point where I want anything to dominate my life. Those esport teams are often very competitive and they'll try just about anything to gain a competitive edge. It's not limited to WoW...in NASCAR, for example, certain teams would run nitrous when most cars were plain motor, and that nitrous shot gave them an extra 100-200 HP which was enough to win races...so then it was banned. Then tech like traction control came along, giving drivers who have it an advantage over those who didn't, and it too was banned from certain sanctioned races.

I guess it's a matter of grey area in some cases, but with WoW I'd say it's almost exclusively cheating.

I had a 2200+ rating in arenas in Burning Crusade but as I came back to WoD, I struggled in them. I noticed a very strange phenomenon. Players are playing horribly in terms of positioning, but their output and interrupting is stellar. I couldn't quite put my finger on what's going on, but this thread made it click for a few moments I couldn't understand.

That's another giveaway of bot-users but sometimes it could just be that one class is so grossly overpowered that you can basically skey and keyboard-turn your way to a 2K rating. In MoP my BM hunter was a total joke; I mean OP as hell. I played with a combat rogue and we literally went 50-0 in 2v2 simply because the hunter's damage was so ridiculously high, and the rogue's CC in addition to my own made it impossible to counter. Like a 99 cent taco, it's food but it's not satisfying.

[Stormspellz]

i thought people were trolling when they were talking about warlocks using 3rd party programs for a 1 button perfect rotation, is this actually a thing?

sadly very common.