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ʕ͡°ᴥ ͡°ʔ Welcome to Brain’s General Player versus Player (PvP) guide ʕ͡°ᴥ ͡°ʔ! Whether you’re new to PvP and looking to get started or you’re a veteran that’s coming back after a break, there are fundamentals that are key to know when stepping into PvP. This guide will go over several topics that are important to improving and being successful in the arena.
Getting Started
Before you step into the arena, you should aim to figure out what talents and honor talents are best for your class and specialization; if there is variance, find out what talents are best in what situations. Honor Talents are on a separate tree than normal talents. In addition, you should try to figure out what the best azerite traits and secondary stats are for you, and in what order (haste, versatility, mastery, crit). Attempting to have the best gear you can is also now beneficial for PvP, as your gear is now factored into how much damage and healing you will do.
Useful Addons
Downloading certain useful addons is also recommended before you queue up for PvP as they will help you out in multiple ways.
There are many addons that can enhance your PvP gameplay. A lot of these addons help in different ways, such as tracking cooldowns of both your teammates and your enemies, as well as other things such as enemy interrupts. Other addons can also help to track diminishing returns. I will separate them into two categories: addons that I believe are very important and addons that I think are good for quality of life improvements. Keep in mind that these are just some addons that come to mind. Feel free to use whatever addons you want to!
Very Important
Gladius/SArena
Provides you with customizable enemy arena frames, as well as the ability to track diminishing returns and enemy trinkets. Major cooldowns can be set to appear on enemy frames.
Useful Macros
Having macros is also quite helpful as they usually instantly perform an action, essentially cutting down on time.
There are many macros that are used in PvP, especially in arena. Macros help because they allow players to quickly do something without needing to target someone before doing so, essentially reducing the actions needed from multiple to just one. An example would be if a Mage wanted to Polymorph the enemy team’s healer. Instead of targeting the enemy healer and casting Polymorph, they can just use their ‘focus Polymorph’ macro to cast Polymorph on the enemy healer without dropping their current target. This not only saves time but also allows them to quickly be able to damage the enemy they have targeted. There are different types of macros, which I will separate into categories.
Types of Compositions
In arenas, there are generally two types of compositions: offensive compositions and defensive compositions. Depending on what type of composition you are playing, you will generally have a strategy that you will want to win with.
Diminishing Returns – What They Are and How to Manage Them
Diminishing Returns, commonly abbreviated as ‘DR’, is a mechanic that makes it so that spells with some sort of crowd control effect are less effective if used multiple times within a certain window of time. There are multiple categories of diminishing returns.
Categories include:
Incapacitate
Disorient
Fear
Stun
Silence
Root
A target starts with no diminishing returns, meaning that any crowd control used on it will sit for its full duration. After the first crowd control, any further crowd control of the same category as the first will result in three types of diminishing returns in order: 50% (crowd control will sit for half duration), 75% (crowd control will sit for quarter duration), and then 100% (target will be immune to that category of crowd control). Diminishing returns are tracked on an 18 second duration, meaning that after a player has not been targeted with a certain category of crowd control for at least 18 seconds, then the next one of that category will once again sit full, with the cycle repeating itself.
Rewards
Like many other sports and games, PvP in World of Warcraft has seasons. These seasons usually range anywhere from three to five months. During and after these seasons, players are incentivized and rewarded for their accomplishments in PvP. Some rewards are awarded during a PvP season, while others are given after a PvP season.
Conclusion
Just like this guide, there are also many other resources out there designed to help you get into and improve in PvP. Keep in mind that although there are general strategies that certain guides will mention, they may not necessarily work for you – so don’t be afraid to experiment and see what works best for you.
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