Is there any way we can discuss removing this from the current Ashran Epic BG? I can se where it use to be useful when the game was a slog, but now it seems like the item is 1 sided and whoever managed to obtain it first is the victor. I don’t think an item that scales that hard on one player is really needed anymore with the pacing of the RBG. I know some people like the quick game if possible, but if you are defending it is near impossible to play catchup sometimes and it is all due to this 1 item.
I actually love when you can get a team come around and slam the enemy aa carrier and steal it. It’s just another mechanic in the overall match that adds yet another flavor to the match overall. More times than not I have been on a team that was having a hard time in team fights where it has turned the tide to our favor because it came up and we noticed it first and grabbed it. It has its uses imho …sometimes it helps sometimes it hurts.
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Grab a competent DK with multigrab, a MM hunter, a rogue, and a healer.
Then take the AA by pure force.
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Or a couple dk’s and chain em right back into your own back row lol…that’s happened a few times it looks so funny seeing them go from their back lines to our back lines and get pummeled fast lol
Ancient Artifact is not that bad imo. At least it’s a clear target when the enemy has it, and there are many ways to isolate and kill them. Especially if your team has someone playing the new Augvoker spec. They have what is basically a 100 yd range Deathgrip with Spatial Paradox + Swoop Up.
The real problem with Ashran is the Solar Sphere buff. I think it kinda ruins this BG. It’s 2/3 the strength of Bloodlust and has 100% uptime on every player in the BG (for the team that controls it). Fighting a competent team that has Solar Sphere advantage usually feels pointless. The node is also at the bottom of a cave, and it commonly gets ignored because nobody wants to run to it.
I’d like to see Solar Sphere nerfed to something completely harmless, like +100% Artifact Fragment loot for the team that controls it.
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that was kind of the whole point of getting it lol it make your team be able to push back and win
Fun fact, I actually did not even know how to get the solar sphere until a couple months ago when I had to look it up and I’ve been playing Ashran since Ashran was a thing.
They really need some better UI on these battlegrounds. I don’t think most people even know how to get the solar sphere. I go there every time on my druid because I know how powerful of a buff it is and most games Horde never bother to take it back while it sits completely undefended.
I only just learned in Shadowlands. A lot of people still don’t know about it.
Aug voker + healer to pop ur cd on + swoop up = your team now has the aa 
But what if the other team also has an augvoker?
then the aa looks like a ping pong ball. ok folks i wanna see this on youtube make it happen
they need to add ingame counters to it. Spider webs do little, ss is sorta helpful, a deathgrip item would be clutch if it only spawned when the aa was up for the enemy team.