Greets,
Love wow and before I start ripping the devs apart they have done a wonderful job on giving the community access to so many varied tasks and hobbies within wow. The quest lines have always had a good amount of pop culture within and that always makes me smile. Pokémon pets, mount collection, transmog, easy travel to and from, matchmaking and LFR so those who don’t raid get a taste of the content they would otherwise never see. So many things I felt wow has done better then all the competitors…
The bad:
I would love to see the revenue generated over the last few years with race change, transfers and team switches. You are charging the price of most games season pass or expansion for moving a character. Then servers go lopsided which should never have been allowed on “PVP” servers and people are forced to transfer 400 dollars worth of toons to another server or remake all those characters and lose out on years of play. At the very least you should have taken the time to help keep the 2 semi balanced PVP servers healthy. (Bleeding Hollow and Emerald Dream) but no lets cram all the servers worlds together and stick lopsided servers with PVP tags together with servers who actually pvp’d. Now you have a bunch of people running around with warmode off and wonder why.
PVP gearing: Age old topic many have many opinions but I can give you this FACT: if the average player is overwhelmingly under geared he will not try to pvp. If he lacks in skill but is on the same level of play gear wise as joe Gladiator then he will attempt to fight. The gap between raiders/mythic+ folks and those who solo grind gear to get even halfway through the slowest crappiest route of grinding stand no chance in pvp. Watched a raid/mythic geared guy take on 7 people before finally getting overwhelmed by adding 3 or 4 more peeps as people were dying off. The great thing about Vanilla pvp was that even a green geared non raid pleb had a chance in a fight against even raid geared people…I have personally seen it on so many occasion and done it. I used to regularly beat my class leader who was geared to the nine and my toon green/blue. PVP nominal stats was great right up until you offered a 1% increase in stats per 10 ilvl. 30ilvl difference was like fighting someone who trinketed but the effect doesn’t stop in 15 seconds. Just make all players the same in pvp/arenas and focus on rewarding transmogs/mounts/pets/titles in place of gear for arena/rated champs etc. World pvp I understand let the raiders flex ok cool but don’t expect average joes to turn warmode on for even a 50% increase in the crappy daily quest reward cause it aint worth it. You guys should have allowed people to mass transfer characters at least 1 time per year because servers these days are like chiclets and no way to tell which ones are going to stay good. Popular streamer leaves (Hobbs stormreaver) and the servers pop for that team dies instantly… thank you btw for killing off the #1 rated world pvp server first 4 years of wow and allowing it to go 90% horde to get some revenue…don’t you a-holes already make enough money?
BFA oh BFA…Lottery gear, this isn’t Diablo and you can’t run an instance in 2.5 minutes like Diablo. You have done what most everyone hates about the Korean MMO’s or are you just trying to cater to the Asian market now and alienate the people who gave you your careers… I continually get gear that makes no sense for my class. Thanks for trying to give me a 1 hander 14 times in a row for my boomkin but never give an adequate off hand to mix with it…useless.
Aidsjatar the map that makes you want to kick puppies and gouge your eyeballs out with a spoon pre flight. It’s like some disgruntled dood was like ill fix you flying whiners real good enjoy getting butt raped over and over again on this map. Oh and btw not only will we put mobs everywhere but we will add in a ton of yellow ones for your aoe to hit and swamp you while your trying to gear to 390…
On saying that the world pvp has been off the hook at least on my server cluster, just the over geared folks plow right over anyone else which in turn makes it really unfun in the end and if you don’t have flight just log to a different toon cause you ain’t rezzing theres a group of guys camping you for their 25 kill quest. They aren’t even from your server they sharded in… Oh Battle for NAz is up inc shard of 5 40 man raids swamping and lagging out a server near you. Great concept and for the most part works great but the zerg is real…
The amount of self heals everyone has now is absolutely retarded. It’s a great thing for solo players and I love being a hunter that can heal 40 times but in all honesty it makes what used to be 30 second fights into 3 minute battles which then turn into 20 minute battles because people rez and get back to the fight which snowballed from 2 player ganking a dood to 20 on 24 fight…(I really don’t know if that is a bad thing but I could go either way cause I am pleased that world pvp is back in a big fashion)
I see a thread monks whining about being susceptible to stuns and I flat out wanted to donkey punch them all…anyone rolling heals needs to have like 5+ people on them to actually die. Most of you could tank an average players dps while continuing on with your daily quests fully ignoring the guy hitting you and that is no over statement. So please healers F off your in the best place you have ever been imho. I watched a pally tank half my team in a BG the guy never died once and was on an opposing flag for 3/4 of the match.
I personally like the azurite gear traits but I hate the random to getting a decent one. I would not mind the randomness if there were a way to far that item every time you wanted it till you got the one you wanted but as is getting into a group is random, random drops, random gear, random traits is too much RNG> especialy coming from someone with absolutely crap RNjesus… I ran near 100 times to get my LF legs in vanilla!
Anyhoo, I think you went the right direction making the new zones a cluster for PVP cause world pvp will bring a lot of players back but if they need to raid for 20 hours a week just to pew pew…not gonna happen at least for decent players with lives outside of wow.
Oh also you gave us all those pretty legendary weapons in Legion and we all had some cool unlocks to wrok towards why remove it and shut it down let players aspire to unlock those tmogs.
Oh and also forget to mention TY blizzard for making it near impossible to pvp on alts unless your a no life, poop sock, tide jug carrying, neckbeard. Not everyone is asmondgold and lives in the basement at moms while collecting a hefty youtube paycheck. Some of us adult have lives, kids, OTHER hobbies oh noes, not other hobbies! Sure I agree do the time or stop whining to a point but putting an alt into a place to use them for pvp requires making them a new main and all I want to do is pvp not f’ing raid and mythic daily 12 hours a day.
TL:DR
Love wow
Small fortune to transfer servers
BFA sucks balls
PVP needs help
World PVP is great It’s great to see it come back
The difference between a 410 geared pvper and a superhero 440 toons is just that…average joes can pig pile superhero and he still wins…