I made honor out in the world, and we raided a city to kill a faction leader simply because we could - had nothing at all to do with honor grinding.
Makes the risk alot higher to raid a city.
GIVE US HONOR BRO! Do BGS when you want but open Honor up plz
Risk when raiding a city is reasonable. It just doesn’t feel as exciting when that risk is a arbitrary (not all crucial NPCs were civilians) and poorly implemented penalty system. Like a fun risk is avoiding Saurfang’s cleaves. A not fun risk is checking whether a NPC tooltip’s has a civilian text and determining if the game is going to punish me for using AoE abilities based on that. It seems really weird to imagine a group of hardened soldiers raiding a city, but then fleeing from a patrolling NPC with a civilian tag.
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Sure. People occasionally do city raids right now, because they can, without any rewards. But its rare. Add a penalty to it and it becomes even rarer.
And that is fine. Again, I don’t want DhKs removed. Just moved to a more appropriate phase to allow a period of time where Wpvp and city raids emulate what it was like during vanilla patch 1.4.
And as too DhKs themselves, they don’t do anything good. It never stopped people from camping Quest NPCs, they just do it on toons that aren’t honor grinding. That still occurred even after DhKs introduction.
But I like Classic ‘warts and all’ so I do want DhKs in the game despite them being bad overall. Just move them to phase 3.
Honestly… I don’t see how they don’t release Honor and BG’s together for the 15th anniv as Phase 2.
The entire idea of separating the Honor System from BG’s was a dumb one to begin with. It was done that way originally, because BG’s weren’t invented yet. There is zero reason to expect that simply adding the Honor System will actually get people en masse to World PVP. It’ll probably get a big yawn while people check out and wait for BG’s.
That may be true.
But Classic isn’t trying to be a good game necessarily. It is trying to emulate vanilla releases via phased content.
So it makes sense to have a phase 1 with no honor, a phase 2 with honor and a phase 3 with bgs.
Phase 2 will probably be around 3-6 months long and then it will be BGs forever… and ever.
I see one of two things happening.
- Blizzard sticks to the plan, but releases Phase 3 only a short time after Phase 2.
- Blizzard does what they did with Dire Maul, and they release BGs somewhere in the middle of Phase 2.
I find it difficult to believe that Phase 2 is going to be 3-6 months of essentially no new content, particularly now that they pushed up the one big PvE release it had going for it. Either Phase 2 is one to two months of wPvP (and world bosses…), or we get BGs during Phase 2 (probably not immediately).
Honestly, Option 2 seems likelier to me.
Sure. And I don’t care really how long phase 2 last. 1 or 2 months would probably be long enough to see how things played out.
As long as there is a phase 2 without BGs, and even better without DhKs.
Can we expect a fix to the horrendous lag that occurs during large scale world pvp?
Servers and zones being unplayable due to too many characters around is down right unacceptable given today’s technology that is available.
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