My impression of PvP this season...
Up until this past week, I did not do PvP at all this season, and also did not do much PvP last season as I was undergeared most of the season. During season 4, I had the best gear and was pretty dominant in PvP. I had a 3/1 KDR in TDM and a 2/1 KDR in CTF.
A couple of weeks ago I picked up an arcane staff, and now have full mythic gear to go along with that, so I decided I would try PvP again after a long absence. While I do not have an arcane ring, I feel like my gear is better than most of the players out there. So I expected to be somewhat dominant again.
So far I have found PvP this season to be quite unbalanced. The balance issues do NOT seem to affect 1-on-1 battles so much as they affect group battles. Put me 1-on-1 against anyone and I can put up a really good fight and probably win most of the time. But put 2 warriors with decent gear in a party, and put any other combination of players on the other team and they will lose every time. I know there were some changes made to HOR a while back, but it is obvious to me that those changes were not extreme enough.
At one point I had a team that included 2 arcane staff mages, a mythic rogue and a warrior with arcane maul, and on the other team was 3 warriors, only one of which had arcane maul, and a mage with a crate rifle. The team with the 3 warriors won every single battle and we could not kill any of them even once.
I'm obviously not the only one who has noticed this, because after playing PvP somewhat regularly for the past week, it seems that 75% of the players in PvP are warriors, which means many mages and rogues have become disinterested.
I'm not sure what the answer is to fixing this, but we have reached a point where the team with more warriors will win every battle. It would be nice if skill and gear mattered somewhat in that equation.
So far even with my arcane staff and full mythic gear, the best I can manage is a slightly lower than 1/1 KDR. When talking to other mages, I've basically been told that is the best a mage can do in PvP at this time. That is quite discouraging. If something doesn't change in the near future, I will most likely be giving up PvP all together.
My impression of PvP this season...
Pvp in arcane is bad..... Thats why i dont pvp much EVERY game I get ganged by people because im underpowered..... Dont pvp in al as a sorc or rogue at endgame unless u got the bes gear, if not a warrior( like in pl) will kill u in a few shots while slowly peck him to death and do about 20% dmg..... Even as a sorcerer with the bes gear, warriors with bad gear will kill you almost all the time 1v1 cuz they so damn op like pl's beckon stomp bear. No pvp lvl is balanced imo fights can last hours, pvp needs to be more fast paced and strategic like pl not about who has the best gear. Fights between warrior and warrior are endless, if a person gets ganged, they get 0 kills while other players get all kills due to op hp, dmg and endless battles, in pl I can 2v1 people and still kill one person before dying if lucky, but EVERY class has a heal in al its annoying. Al pvp is no where near balanced