Did a few matches and I agree allowing consumables is imo a bad idea.
I already farm consumes for PvE, don't want to do it for arena.
Otherwise had a lot of fun.
True that the leveling in BGs is the most efficient right now.
Another connected problem is that experience in dungeons is way too low so you're not really incentived to do lower levels dungeons so people barely queue which is a shame, probably need some tinkering.
It's not catastrophic but it's not good. Some classes like warlock, mage, druid or rogue need to put effort and create setups to get a kill and survive a teamfights while classes like shaman or paladin just need to run into the melee, spam frostshock and 2-tap everyone or spam self dispell and use ...
Shamans are super tanky and bursty in melee while having top tier instant ranged attacks. I'm fine with them either being a counter to melee or casters but they can't fold both a mage and a warrior at the same time. I'm personally for moving the tanky talents at the end of the enhancement tree and ...
So our group was approximately halfway through Dragonmaw Retreat when one player left. We used the Group Finder to fill the empty slot, when the replacement player joined, he was automatically given party leadership.
Immediately afterward, the original group members had the countdown to be ...