World of Raids Forums: Remove ROV (Again) - World of Raids

I cannot fathom why this arena map is still in the game. It is universally seen as one of the most buggy, unenjoyable and most badly designed arena maps in existence. Whether it means getting mass dispelled before you can leave the platform, your pets getting stuck, totems falling through the ground, getting insta-gibbed by a spell cleave before you can take more than 5 steps, or any of the many other reasons why people don't enjoy it, it's just plain weird that Blizzard keep it in the game.

Whether it be the top end arena community, the middle range or the lower range of arena participants, barely anyone enjoys it. Now WoW is a game, and games are meant to be fun, so if it can be said that a very high % of the gamer base don't enjoy an aspect of the game, why keep it there? Why not respond to their calls for change?

Some quotes from AJ thread:

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Due to its array of unique features, the Ring of Valor is the most complex and dynamic of all the Arenas in World of Warcraft thus far, and it will likely give rise to some of the most creative and active player strategies yet seen. In general, teams that combine constant, coordinated movement with opportunistic use of the platforms and fire walls will rule the day.

read as:

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Pop cooldowns as soon as the elevators rise and kill something before it gets to the pillar.

'you know something is seriously broken in wow when literally nobody disagrees that it should be removed, there's usually at least a troll'

'im going to place my demonic por... nvm death grip/charge/insert random'

'Playing as a dk it was annoying enough to have to waste my first leap to unstick my ghoul at the start of every match and not be able to avoid an initial howl of terror or other kind of aoe stun/cc/whatever. Now I play as a warlock and my pet get jammed onto the platform at the start and won't come back until I run about 15 yards from it and tell it to follow, then it gets stuck on platforms as they raise and can't move or be healed till I realize what happened and tell it to follow(and can't spell lock either), or, my personal favorite, falls through the floor and despawns. My hunter's pet gets jammed onto the platform and I can't pin anybody until well into the match, causing a near sure loss against 2dps(though if my pet spawns fine on ROV, my hunter roflstomps whoever's on the other side because ROV is insanely unfair for hunters). I try to ride off the platform on my lock to get a summon port behind the pillar, but it's too late - the warrior has already charged and instantly bladestormed me.

blizzard seriously needs to just junk this f@$#(g arena once and for all. What other bugs and random bulls*#t still happen with this horribly designed, buggy, unfun arena?'


Thoughts?