server only bg’s from the beginning would have majorly fixed the faction imbalances from the start. why play on a 90% horde dominated server when you will never get to bg again.
Exactly, my guild came back expecting bgs and a huge number of pvp leveling guilds like there were in Vanilla Actual, we were gonna play “casual” with two months in each bracket, but because of no bgs on release that didn’t happen. Since then PvPers have forged xrealm communities with those who queue, and those communities have just been shredded.
If it gets them to stop complaining, I’m all for them quitting.
What does “the health of Classic” even mean? I see this get thrown around as if to “guilt trip” people into comforming to your bidding.
Why are some of you so eager to change Classic? Perhaps, Classic is just not meant for some people, and that’s OK. We all have our own opinions of fun.
I wanted no xrealm BGs, and servers with tons of PvP guilds like most players experienced Vanilla Actual. Hell, my guild was supposed to come back and spend two months parked in each bracket on our way to 60. But with no BGs on release the PvP community didn’t have a chance to form, balance, and grow to the point of sustaining server based queues.
That ship has sailed, and with the number of people queuing, the lower level brackets have formed an xrealm community where twinks, players parking for a while, and levelers could pug and recognize friends and foes alike.
That community has just been torn in half, with greatly increased queue times and a loss of half of our friends as the end result.
Server-restricted BG brackets are untenable for this version of the vanilla community. The proportion of PvPers even on high-population servers just isn’t high enough the way it was in vanilla. No one is doing PvP for casual fun. If you want to be able to PvP at all then battlegroups are a necessity.
Server community is a myth, everyone is out for themselves and no one is impressed by your BWL epics in Org. No one cares enough about others players to remember your name. This is the single-player MMO generation.
Sorry but you’re looking for a different community, because WoW Classic ain’t it.