Understanding the 2v2 Arenas
Personally I’ve never been a fan of the 2-man arena teams. My own reasoning is surprisingly simple: I hate queues. I don’t like waiting in line, I don’t want to sit and stare at my queue timer as I wait to get into a match, it’s a waste of my life (ok, that’s an exaggeration, warcraft could be called a waste of life, but I digress). I even rolled to horde so I could avoid the (at the time) 10-15 minute queues just to get into a Battleground.
But my oldest brother needed to gnab some arena points, and so to make things tolerable I just had us queue up in Nagrand and flew around looking for gas clouds (or herbs, or mines..whatever’s available!) and thought I would reflect on my own experience at the 2v2 levels.
Things I learned:
1. 2v2 Arenas are for fun, not powergamers I’m not one of those min-max everything must be done precisely as I say this is the absolute best piece of gear for raw dps etc. etc. etc. kind of person. If you are that kind of gamer, 2v2 arenas are not for you. Why not? See the queue time listed above. Also, as this image illustrates, 2v2 teams earn less arena points than their larger counterparts. From what I understand this means that 2v2s earn 76% less than a 5v5 team equivalent.
2. 2v2 is not meant to be balanced. I see a lot of people complaining about X class in arenas against Y. Stop it. 2v2 arenas are not and never will be truly balanced, and Blizzard has stated that they’re ok with this. There are certain class combinations that simply will not hold up to their counterparts in a 2v2 match unless of course the opposing team is just that bad or you get lucky and blow someone up before the healer has a chance to react. Accept the fact that sometimes you’re going to lose and it won’t always be your fault. Once you get past that, you’ll actually have a lot of fun. I know I had a blast!
More to come as I gather my arena points from week to week, any suggestions on first pieces of arena gear?
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