Downvoted.
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Did Blizzard step in and do anything when Horde was mass camping alliance in World PVP and making the game unplayable due to faction imbalances?
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It just help Alliance players from not getting screwed over by the cross realm premades.
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Yay! Bump it up to 10 man though for AV since alliance can 40 man?
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Just curious to see how AV will end up. I think in the end, while it may seem… ‘healthier’, it may devolve into ‘AV Queue is awful’.
Yes, they released battlegrounds 3 months early.
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Pretty much this. Ally will still be able to have more of a premade. But now horde will have 4 friends that can share the pain.
Overall, a needed change but nothing earthshatteringly different.
Very excited to see the ability to queue with friends finally, its been a lonely 2 months in AV.
Still think honor should be nerfed, but I will take it. This is a marked improvement over current AV and gets us closer to the original experience, as opposed to the current experience, which is unique to classic and a total #change from the game we played 15 years ago.
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If Horde are able to carry their pugs to wins, even against premades, Alliance should be able to do the same once their skill pool is spread evenly again.
Chill.
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I’m not against breaking premades in this way. However, there are obviously much deeper issues that aren’t being addressed here. The premades were a symptom and this is a bandaid. It will only serve to deepen the issues.
There is a huge faction imbalance going on in PVP, both in battlegrounds and in world PVP. Yes, people choose one side or the other but Blizzard can affect the choices they make. There needs to either be a revamp/removal of the faction system or serious incentives to reroll combined with easy faction transfers.
And don’t just add mercenary mode. Many Alliance have had a tough time in world PVP because of the imbalances, allowing mercenary mode will give one side the best of both worlds - quick queues AND easy world PVP.
Fix the deep issues, stop adding bandaids.
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I left from Herod to Grobbulus.
I know very well what the situation there is like.
For every one of your corpse walks, there are 3 alliance ones.
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Y’all need to break the AVQ addon real fast too or this will be for nothing.
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@Kaivax What are you guys going to do about all the people who exploited their way to rank 14 because of this? They took a huge dump on all of us players that have been doing it without the exploit, and it’s ruined the game for all of us. They just walk away from this clean? We’ve literally been running into 75% of games being queue dodged, instant losses, and toxic behavior from everyone who is pissed at every failed premade game they get into. We’ve been dealing with 15% win rates! All so a bunch of cheaters can get the best gear in the game while they took a big crap on all of us. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THEM? They caused this problem! This wasn’t you guys. This was them. This is every bit as bad as phasing loot stealing at the end of instances! They’ve literally ruined the game for a bunch of people.
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So you guys actually buff the honor gained in AV instead of nerfing it so WSG is competitive… GG Blizz!
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If horde had quick queues the world pvp issue would vanish.
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And that wasn’t every server. Lots of servers had a back and forth. There were some that was just a total $hitshow for sure.
I can only speak for Herod and DD - there was no faction dominating. NO ONE could go anywhere without fear.
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Imagine saying this when the Horde has lost another Warchief in the current expansion, and has been left with like… 1 character of importance.
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At that point, you can blame the faction imbalance for the queue time. I dont think much of the queue time complaining was that they were long in-and-of themselves, but that they were long and ended in 6 minutes.
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Amen - thank you for being normal and sane. Seems to be lacking from a lot of players when they’re trying to justify their side of things.
Exactly this.
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They’ll still premade. It’ll just be a little less certain how many people get in, unless they make other changes as well.