Some truth from a 10 year retail, 5 year full time classic pserver vet
Logged in to say vanilla pvp was a complete gongshow. and TBC PvP is both balance, and mechanically the best xpac for WoW pvp.
vanilla pvp is fun - when you are leagues overpowered gear wise, you are playing a pvp viable class/spec. but even more so if your opponents are shitters.
TBC pvp was balanced in terms of variety of viable class specs (not so balanced in terms of viable arena comps). in battle grounds, all classes and specs were able to bring something equally unique, and useful to a battle. and NOBODY (except hybrid resto druid hehe) was invisible.
As the xpacs went on and spells, numbers, class utility and player population reached peak ridiculousness. the tactical requirements and overall flavor and depth of PvP as a whole wore thin. it became apparent the development team was no
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