They remind me too much of sports.
See, I hate sports. I can stand to watch football on occasion, but other than that ... I find them boring and pointless. I always have. A bunch of big, sweaty guys chasing a ball or puck or other small object around a purpose-built arena just to prove they can do it better than the other bunch of big, sweaty guys (and, meanwhile, providing convenient sinks for hundreds of millions of dollars and a completely unrealistic standard and dream for millions of disadvataged youths)? Thank you anyway.
Battlegrounds are the same kind of thing. I'm not addressing Arenas here, or world PvP, just battlegrounds.
You get a team together. It has a certain number of people on it, dictated by the
Usually, there is bravado, trash-talking and poor sportsmanship.
Battlegrounds, like sports, seem to have no purpose. You play them for their own sake, or to earn points which lets you buy gear which ... um ... enables you to perform better in the battlegrounds. Sort of like using your player salary to buy lighter pads or a better bat or something. This whole thing is sort of true for raiding, also, but with raiding, at least, there's progression. You raid Kara so you can go to Gruul's and Mags, then you can do SSC, then the Eye, etc. With the battlegrounds, all you do is more battlegrounds. The same game on the same field, day after day. And the reward for getting good at it is ... well, being good at it. It's not like those skills really transfer.
Don't get me wrong. I can get caught up in the moment, just like anyone else. I've done battlegrounds and I've felt the thrill of victory, be it narrow or overwhelming. But, for me, it doesn't compare to the excitement of seeing a new raid with a sympatico crew, going up against a new boss, and bringing him down. Just seems so much more epic than being the first team to score three goals.
I've never understood why people like sports so much. I suppose I will probably never really understand why people like battlegrounds so much. That's fine, to each, their own.
It just annoys the crap out of me that, in order to be at the top of my game as a PvE tank, I'm
So even the "unrealistic expectations" aspect of sports is carried through to the battlegrounds. Just as millions of kids pin their future hopes on their ability to spin a ball well enough to be awarded one of the hundreds of slots available to them each year (and that's being generous), so too do the PvP rewards give people the false hope of either gearing themselves well enough to perform their roles in raid by PvPing (and not learning a thing about how to raid with their class at the same time), or by giving other people the expectation that their raid members will PvP in order to gear themselves better.
Yep, I'm expected to tank Prince in a football helmet and shoulder pads. I told you that sports created unrealistic expectations.
So ... when's the SSC run starting, again?
