Arena Players Can Now Choose Their Own Dampening Settings - Mists of Pandaria Classic Beta

Posted 2025/06/27 at 10:44 PM by PopularTopular

Bloodbath

We’ve made an update to Arenas on the Mists of Pandaria Classic Beta for some experimentation on dampening, and we’re looking forward to you trying it out and hearing your feedback.

The longest a match can go is now 20 minutes (was 15 minutes).
Dampening Starts at 5 minutes in all brackets.
Every Arena starting area now has a Bloodbath Orb, and it requires at least 2 players on a team to channel it to activate.
Activating the Bloodbath Orb casts your vote for earlier dampening in the match.
If no teams activate their Bloodbath Orb, when the gates open an announcement will describe the match as being slower, and dampening will start at 5 minutes and at 0%.
If one team activates their Bloodbath Orb, and the other does not, when the gates open an announcement will describe the match as having a warmup period, and dampening will start at 3 minutes and at 0%.
If both teams activate their Bloodbath Orb, when the gates open an announcement will describe the match as a Bloodbath, and dampening will start immediately at 0%.
Bloodbath Orbs require 2 seconds of channeling from at least 2 players on a team to activate.
The range to channel the Orb is small on purpose, to prevent mis-clicks.
This will allow players to always vote for the type of game they want to play against their enemies, while knowing the specs of their opponents, but not knowing how the other team is going to vote.

We’re looking forward to your feedback! Please leave it here.

Comment by MedorathSeems like a W additionComment by SuperMonkyThat's actually really cool. I wonder how this would go on retail servers.Comment by akaRaven^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by CucumbearFear^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by stummyzTWilight dungeon arena, COOL !Comment by Quasarr^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by JustysAs terrible and useless as the lever in retail, most people want faster matches but nobody is going to bother to click the damn orb every match.Comment by Brianno^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by RavielTheBlood^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by jeroenweckxThis is great a change 10/10! Love it!Comment by Saevitor^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by KrislingThat's actually really cool. I wonder how this would go on retail servers.Comment by Laptican^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by Aji1that's cool but please add something to make the damn gate open fasterComment by Esploratore^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by blindastronomer*PLEASE* give us Skirmishes back. Please give us a PVP LFG tab. Merge OCE and NA queues and LFG.

Give us a flex queue or shuffle/soloqueue option for MoP, it's such a great expansion for this.Comment by haunterwing^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by 0Vapyr^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.Comment by Cornstarch55You have a mistake in the article. On the top you mentioned 30% but then later every scenario starts at 0Comment by Tyneic^&*!.

There's your feedback, @#$%.

And not just this idea, PVP in general, it's too bursty, it's too one sided, it's rubbish to place an arena maximum time frame of 20 minutes, who last that long? I've never since forever that I have done arena been in a game that lasted more than like 6 minutes, and that was because I was a tank on full PVP gear and the rogue couldn't kill me fast.

Every season I have bothered playing I have gone around a 50% win rate give or take, and most games last like 2 minutes.