#0 - June 3, 2010, 5:36 p.m.
This issue has everything to do with damage, the way an Arena map is designed and implemented has everything to do with how damage is dealt and prevented in the Arena...
So like many, when I queue into arena and see Ring of Valor I rage.
Why?
Ring of Valor, more than any other map gives overwhelming advantages to certain teams while leaving others at huge disadvantages.
For example, as a Rogue any team with with 2 brain cells between them will be able to prevent my sap EVERY GAME without any effort and often times they are able to remove me from stealth before I'm out of the elevator (many Rogue teams have now resorted to using the Levitate bug to better their chances at a sap).
Warlocks are always having issues with their Portal and I'm sure there is a plethora of pet associated bugs on this map that plague them as well.
Hunters and Wizard Cleaves are simply too powerful on these maps (obviously moreso than they would be on any other map) as they have a much easier time tunneling damage or spamming CC into a target on this map than any other.
I could go so far as to say this map in itself completely alters and invalidates the balance that Blizzard has strived for; It makes 'balanced' classes either extremely powerful or extremely weak and that is something that a Map should not do. I could also go so far as to say that if you were to ask any serious Arena player what they thought about RoV they will have numerous horror stories, bugs to report (that have already been reported 1000x and not been fixed for the entire expansion) and balance complaints about this map that effect gameplay more than should ever be allowed.
I honestly feel as if this map has been left in a horrible, bugged and imbalanced state for all of WotLK and sincerely hope that it is either removed or altared greatly for cataclysm. This really feels like it falls into the "unacceptable" catagory of balance issues within the game right now.
This map is not fun.
thoughts? Horror Stories? Suggestions?
