So this is PvP now?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I'm a whm... and nothing is more boring then PvP Whm

Stone is my only attack. I have no aoe spells anymore (holy/medica/aero iii are out).

I have assize, cure, stone, and two near useless single target reduction abilities.

I'd rather be a Sam hopelessly trying to chase brds around

Wait, what? Divine Benison is godly in PvP. 25% mitigation based on the target's max HP, on a 20s cooldown with the potential to reduce it to 10%? If you seriously believe that bad, you have no business playing WHM.

What really gets me is when someone would say "the old PvP had too many buttons"

. . . You mean those same ones you had in PvE content plus like 6 PvP skills, not all of which were always useful (depending on your job)?

Sure, there were some skills that just weren't all that useful in one or the other, and ironically most of the "useless" PvE skills were highly useful in PvP, but beyond that, it was the same kit you were used to at max level. The difference was how it was used. And unfortunately, where many cound play their job right in PvE, having to relearn it for PvP proved "too hard".

As a bitter thought, maybe PvP didn't need the complete overhaul if there was more effort on SE's part to properly explain how PvP actually worked.

I disagree. There is something to be said about less being more. It wasn't that all those abilities were necessarily difficult, they were simply cumbersome. I had macros to switch around abilities on my hotbars because I didn't have the space otherwise. I'm also someone who prefers most of their abilities on the mouse. I ran out of buttons on a mouse with over 24 of them. Did they scale it back too much? Maybe. But the sheer amount we once had was silly.