Because it’s sod, a classic beta, would love to see something drastic attempted.
Basically would love an over watch style hidden mmr to try and create better games.
Premade vs premade only
Crafted gear to get folks playing.
I hav been leveling a Pally (yes I gave into the dark side) so i have not piped much since the changes. Might need another balance pass, but these changes are Aimee at increasing participation of folks afraid to dip the toe.
Ditch pvp in sod it’s a meme. Change the reel system to allow alts or new players to gear up extremely easily. Would be dope to see new players able to aquire AQ/naxx gear from just spamming dungeons.
If they are truly treating it as a beta for classic, and it is already in a bad place, try something drastic and see what the player base does.
What needs to change is PvP gear aquisition.
You shouldn’t have to PvP for tens of hours in order to get the gear that’ll make you tanky enough to PvP.
We should be able to gear easily for PvP and obtain rewards for doing so like gold/raid consums/craft mats/etc so people won’t stop once they hit max rank.
Max rank should be an honorific title that you can farm with a decent PvP gear from day one.
Even with the R14 changes brought by SoD it’s still 7 weeks before hitting R14. Enough to dissuade any alt/new player especially since most regular players are R14 already and quite a few of them still tag BG.
a few weeks after phase 8 launches, we will probably see a massive drop in the playerbase, because there won’t be anything else to do other than PVP.
Problem is, right now, it’s not appealing to most players because the queue times are long (for horde at least) and you get vaporized if you are wearing cloth / leather.
PVP in SOD can be fun, but it would need substantial tweaks; PVP runes maybe? resilience?
This is exactly what I am talking about, do some things for new folks to have fun. It might not work but if this really is a testing area, test out some whacky stuff.
Rotate Daily Battlegrounds, while removing Battleground Weekends
Daily Battleground would be the only one queueable (I miss AV on SoD and considering the past 2 AV weekends I think I only got into ONE lol)
Make wins give Reals (10 for first Win of the day, 2 per win after. AV would be 5 first Win and 1 per win after)
Allow same Faction Battlegrounds
Allow Epic/R14 items to have a second form (gold sink if you want, who cares, just allow it to upgrade to maybe KC level of gear)
… I never claimed to have great ideas, mind you, but this is what I would do to try to spice things up and get more people back into battlegrounds besides Arathi Basin.
I like the daily ten!