Originally Posted by
Tadkins
RBGs, no, but I don't think it would be a bad thing for random BGs.
Folks don't seem to realize that rated PvP is an entirely different beast. I used to have lots of fun in random BGs and it was where I spent most of my gametime. Nothing like coming home from work on a Friday night, grabbing dinner and a drink, and playing randoms until it was time for bed. Meanwhile with rated, my experiences in attempting them a long time ago were pretty bad. Arenas require you to have friends that you can coordinate with, the ability to coordinate with them, and the ability to time your CCs and whatnot to a pinpoint precise level. It gave me an extreme amount of stress trying to play those to the point where I got actual chest and lower body pains from it during close battles, and I was happy when we had a system that finally let me avoid them.
RBGs on paper sounded like an ideal solution but those tend to be pretty exclusive. I could never seem to get into them, and I'd like to because I still want to earn that mage tower skin that requires 10 wins.
You're correct about the class thing, my perspective might have been different back in the day with a rogue, because they were (and maybe still are) just nuts in PvP and a great choice for a solo PvPer. But as I've found in the most recent years of playing WoW, being a solo caster queuing for a random alone is not a fun experience. And essentially without gear options, a caster is going to pretty much do nothing but die unless they have support, and you don't get that without friends queuing with you. I did find a niche as an arcane mage, which has a ton of options for escaping bad fights, but it's still depressing when you realize you spend most of your games just running until you get into a fight where people are actually backing you up.
I don't know. The most recent years of WoW just seems to be nothing but an excercise in depression and failure.