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Having done a number of BGs now, I feel pretty confident when I say that the skill level has degraded sharply in the past year while I've been gone.

I don't know what did it, but it's readily apparent to me. You can check out my gear; I don't have any epics at all, really. I have a middling resil and a bunch of blues.

Yet I routinely get 7-8 (if not more) killing blows to every once I get killed. It's baffling me. I was going into BGs after taking a year off getting ready for what I experienced in WotLK when I came back after a couple PvP seasons: getting raped repeatedly and mercilessly.

The only tough time I've had was against a rogue that had full PvP epics and was obviously about as skilled as I was.

So what gives? Did PvP just get so dumbed down that any ****** that was decent back in S2-S6 can be a PvP god if they stick with it and get geared?

EDIT: If this is the case, Noc you're getting on your shaman and we'll faceroll to 2500+.

Edited, Mar 25th 2012 10:21pm by Theophany

lol I have absolutely NO PvP gear, but if you want to help me help you faceroll, I'll be more than happy to =)

This sort of makes me think because I haven't PvP'd in a while, if I happen to put up an Earth Shield on you, does it show when you're stealthed? I'm assuming no because it'd be sort of stupid to have it just randomly floating in air when you're supposed to be invisible lol.

Also, I'll try to hop on today after work and jump into some BGs to get some points for gear. Shouldn't be too hard, I'd imagine.

Have you tried out Tol'Barad and see if maybe all of those "decent" BG players are just doing that instead? Just a suggestion.

Edited, Mar 26th 2012 8:40am by xNocturnalSunx

I tried Tol'Barad, and either I'm playing at the wrong times or the players on your (now our) realm just don't care about PvP. I soloed a hunter and a frost mage who were both fairly geared.

No, Earth Shield doesn't show. Basically what we'd end up doing is you kiting whoever tries to attack you and I'd peel and attack them.

That said, you'd probably be keeping Earth Shield on you, since most teams will focus on killing you since I'm much easier to kill when you can't sit and spam-heal me.


Those are some good points, and explains why I've really only seen one or two good players.