PvP Changes in Midnight
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Earlier we shared our philosophy around some of the changes we are making in Midnight to better target Combat for Everyone.
We would like PvP to be more welcoming to new and returning players while retaining its current skill expression. Tackling this is a challenge we don’t take lightly because to learn PvP it requires learning how all the classes and specializations play which takes effort and patience. Beyond that, you have to track their own abilities, cooldowns, buffs, and debuffs as well as your teammates and enemies in real time in The War Within. This can become overwhelming, and we want players who are interested in PvP to have a welcoming first experience both in terms of gameplay and minimum knowledge for competency.
Some of the fun and depth of WoW’s PvP experience comes from skill expression in playing your class against others in a high pressure environment. Combat mastery continues to be a key skill to PvP success, and navigating your class against others in competition leads your team to victory.
We understand addons have become a vital tool in PvP over the years. A frequent experience of players that want to dive deeper into the higher tiers of our rated game modes, is that they are instructed by their peers to set up a multitude of addons to show important information to increase their odds of victory. We want to add some emphasis on existing UI elements and create new ones, which you will be seeing through alpha that will allow you to track important information in PvP, such as debuffs on nameplates (example shown below) and tracking diminishing returns (this will come in a future update).
Glad Mount Art Preview
We wanted to provide an early preview of the gladiator mount for Season 1 of Midnight, the Galactic Gladiator’s Goredrake.
We’re eager to hear your thoughts on these updates we’re making in Midnight and we’ll be sharing more information about PvP content in Midnight as alpha progresses.
Continue reading...
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Earlier we shared our philosophy around some of the changes we are making in Midnight to better target Combat for Everyone.
We would like PvP to be more welcoming to new and returning players while retaining its current skill expression. Tackling this is a challenge we don’t take lightly because to learn PvP it requires learning how all the classes and specializations play which takes effort and patience. Beyond that, you have to track their own abilities, cooldowns, buffs, and debuffs as well as your teammates and enemies in real time in The War Within. This can become overwhelming, and we want players who are interested in PvP to have a welcoming first experience both in terms of gameplay and minimum knowledge for competency.
Some of the fun and depth of WoW’s PvP experience comes from skill expression in playing your class against others in a high pressure environment. Combat mastery continues to be a key skill to PvP success, and navigating your class against others in competition leads your team to victory.
We understand addons have become a vital tool in PvP over the years. A frequent experience of players that want to dive deeper into the higher tiers of our rated game modes, is that they are instructed by their peers to set up a multitude of addons to show important information to increase their odds of victory. We want to add some emphasis on existing UI elements and create new ones, which you will be seeing through alpha that will allow you to track important information in PvP, such as debuffs on nameplates (example shown below) and tracking diminishing returns (this will come in a future update).
Glad Mount Art Preview
We wanted to provide an early preview of the gladiator mount for Season 1 of Midnight, the Galactic Gladiator’s Goredrake.
We’re eager to hear your thoughts on these updates we’re making in Midnight and we’ll be sharing more information about PvP content in Midnight as alpha progresses.
Continue reading...