Blizzard, please listen to your community. I see hundreds of threads about the honor problems, and thousands of comments on it. People were enjoying the game with the exploit. Who cares if it is an exploit? You reset honor in retail every season. You reset honor in retail every expansion release. The original tbc patch was 6 weeks, and with the correct amount of HK honor and honor to win/lose you were able to farm rank 14 year out easily. You had 12 hours of maintenance to get everything working and you didn’t get much backlash from the forums. The 10x exploiters should either have honor reset and gear taken OR give the 10x back, or even like 8x back just to be fair. 2x is worth nothing. I play retail currently and in an easy day of grinding, I can get a full set of pvp gear (because the honor works there) and the honor items are way cheaper in retail. 1720 for a 2 handed stave VS 32k for a 2 handed stave in tbc. Lots of people are quitting, unsubbing, and giving up because you won’t reply with an legitmate answer. I personally have been playing since wotlk so I never got to play tbc. I wanted to come play tbc and be able to get some gear prior to tbc dropping. Back when I started, I only started with the base game and farmed out the honor for the 60 set, then leveled and farmed for the 70 set, then finally got wotlk and farmed for the 80 set. It is absurd that you have thousands of comments, hundreds of threads, content creators and community leaders posting videos about this, people leaving the game for ffxiv and other mmorpgs because of it.
Also, why give a boost out to people if you can’t gear them? In a retail scenario, you have 10 levels to level meaning you have a chance to get atleast some practice and gear on the toon. Personally, I boosted. My friends quit and I got to 55 in classic so I was happy about the boost and I farmed for a good 12-14 hours and only got 6k honor prior to the 2x buff which is still not enough, I gave up on the rank 14 gear grind and bought the cheaper blue pieces just to get out of the greens. I also got some gear out of dungeons and off the ah because I couldn’t bring myself to keep pvping.
We get that a grind is one thing, its what an mmorpg is. We as a community will grind for the gear but we also don’t have 6 weeks of a prepatch nor do we have the correct HK/Honor gain that we did back then. Most people also don’t have 18 hours a day to play either like it used to be too. Even the people who had the 10x exploit still had to farm for a good several hours to get the whole set because of the marks of honor required. At this point, the whole #nochanges is stupid and shouldn’t be listened too anyway, also the person who posted about the exploit probably is sitting in full r14 gear on a boosted toon then they posted about it and then everyone lost the fun in the game.
Give people who are leveling alts (draenei and blood elfs), people who are boosting to come play with friends in tbc, people who didn’t have time to gear in classic because of whatever reason the fun that they deserve and want. Everyone wants the 10x back or atleast something because this right now is not playable, its not fun, and everyone is sitting on the forums because of it. Queues are 25+ minutes long on some realms, most groups are premade or afk because the honor is so bad. Give your community what they want. I bet you thousands of people including me bought the collectors edition to come play with friends so you could atleast budge and give the community what we want. A lot of retail players are also coming to tbc because of the 9.1 drought too, you have to think about that as well.
I understand from a community leader situation, you can’t post a blue post unless the devs say okay but try to give us something.
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