Bring back blacklisting 2 bg's again

Everyone hates seething shore. Even if your winning or losing. had a seething shore couple days ago with top 4 dmgs and top 4 healers on my team and almost lost and overwhelming more stats. 1500-1100 was final score but it was 300- 800 at one point. everything is displeasing about it, the map, the objectives, azerite. I counted up teams deaths and collectively we had 9 and the other team had 59. I have had games the opposite too where it feels dreadful and horrible and you think you losing but somehow come out on top.

personally I’m just going to have this map blacklisted but it should go back to two again because not everyone likes every map. I know some people hate deepwind gorge revamp. but i honestly love it with it being another 5 cap and the cooldown resetting buffs and zerkers everywhere.

why take away good features anyways? There is no (good) logic or defense to take away blacklisting. 40 mans are already separate and people still blacklisted other Bgs then your 40 mans.

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There were a lot of technical/mechanical issues with it that caused problems with the queue system. It wasn’t worth it to keep it around.

Blacklisting BGs is one of the best features we had for many reasons.

First it gave Blizz important Data on what BGs players hated which means Blizz has the option to fix these issues so players stop Blacklisting or remove the BG like they did with Strands.

Second Blacklisting just lets players enjoy their time spent in game without the pain and frustration of Queing into BGs they are going to leave making it worse for other players. Then it backfills and those new players leave because it’s a losing BG. Creating an unneeded high amount of Deserter debuffs increasing Que times.

Blacklisting only has positives making the game better for the players and Devs to fix pain points.

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I agree with this so much. I’ve said this same thing so many times recently. There was a day this week where I got seething shore 5-6 times in a row. There are just certain bgs that I’d rather skip. I 100% support bringing back the 2 exclusions from random queues.

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You keep saying this, but provide no proof or source. Therefore, I do not believe you.

I agree. I would blacklist Seething shores in a second. Anything else literally. I’d blacklist it twice. Blizz so hard up to make that awful experience stay. Win or lose, it’s awful. Bring back strands.

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Agreed.

You see this more with epic BGs because if WG is up a lot of people will leave if it is on offense.

:surfing_man: :surfing_woman:

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Blizzard made all this public at the time. It can be Googled.

The burden of proof lies on you, I did not make this claim.

I feel you, the only reason they even made that BG is because one of the devs was a fortnite fan.

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prob not the popular opinion but I’ve always enjoyed seething shore.

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The real truth is that they removed blacklisting to promote people play the least popular BGs.

But that has backfired because people just leave and the queues are longer overall.

:surfing_man: :surfing_woman:

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This is true. I rather leave every BG if I get bad ones then stay. It’s our play time and it’s valuable so why stay in a BG we hate? We can just leave.

Blacklisting fixes this. Also the flexibility it offers is great because on some days maybe you want to blacklist different BGs. Not only that it gives Blizzard data on the BGs that need overhauls.

win/win

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I’d really like to see the reasoning behind taking away blacklisting in the first place.

I’d be happy if they just broke up random bgs. For example, any bgs that is flag related or zone will be 1 queue (WSG, EYE, AB, Gilneas, deepwin, and Twin Peaks. Then have the other queue for Temple, Mines, and seething shore.

Or maybe a classic queue vs updated ones?
So WSG, Arathi, and eye in one queue and then everything else in the other rbg queue?

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Definitely a decent suggestion.

A lot of times I don’t want FC maps and prefer base node maps.

Just with Epics could all be revamped. Isle and WG are painful with Sieges so I’d Blacklist them forever. Sieges have no place in PvP period! We are there to use our abilities in PvP combat. We have fought Old Gods and Dragons, tiny Sieges are beneath us.

YES I hate that map, i afk out as soon as i see it pop

I just want a Twin Peaks and Warsong queue. CTF forever.

Agree! Bravo!