The queue accept time should be 30 seconds.
The gates shouldn’t open till both teams are full.
Horde vs Horde battlegrounds should automatically form when there’s not enough alliance in queue.
You should be able to blacklist 2 rbgs and 1 epic rbg.
Disable raid and M+ trinkets (remember tank trinket stacking in season 2?).
Vehicles health should scale based on players health in dps spec.
Smart match making, IE: 2 healers in WSG.
PvP gear vendors and an honor currency.
These are quality of life changes that Blizzard would make if they had someone working on battlegrounds.
Nah. Mercenary Mode should be removed. You shouldn’t get all the luxuries of playing the dominant faction and also have a temporary opt-out to bypass what is literally the only downfall. Until Mercenary Mode is removed, factions will stay extremely unbalanced.
For the quadfreakingbillionth time, Merc mode does basically nothing for or against population balance. It was made for ally and should have kept them the dominant faction. Would you look at that, everyone went horde. Merc mode does jack freaking all. People are sheep and they go where the masses go and where a precieved advantage is.
Agreed.
I feel like this could mess with their matchmaking system.
Pretty much agree with your first point merc does nothing at all and all the sheep follow i guarantee if we were in WOD right now when ally dominated and were originally the first faction that got it these same people wouldn’t say a word right now lmao
Plus even if they did remove merc mode that wouldnt solve the faction issue at all as pve is a thing as well soo…
Also if anything alliance racials are better right now anyway so if anything people should be going alliance right now but they choose not too just simply because easier to find groups as horde
This. Once a MMO’s population begins to decline to the point where it’s noticeable, people gravitate toward a few servers and 1 faction.
You can see this mentality in Classic. People went into it afraid of ending up on a dead server, so they all clustered into a couple servers and overloaded them. It’s a perception of scarcity that is heightened on alliance and compounded by over-sharding.
It’s just going to get worse, so Blizz might as well create a work around like auto-merc or horde v horde bgs.
Nope, anything that helps the population imbalance should never be considered. You chose that faction, you live with it’s positives, and negatives. I have a lack of players on alliance side to play with, but I get faster queues. It’s a deal I understand and don’t mind.
Agreed, not because imbalance, but because the hordies who do merc mode are just happy to get into more games. I get tired of them doing nothing in game then cry and cry and cry about how horde are better. It’s a dumb system, and should have no part in the game. Especially when it’s one side vs the other. Opens too many opportunity for trolls for the lols.
Yes, initially. Now it’s more of a scarcity thing. Especially RBGers, i’ve known a few to go horde or make their horde alts their mains because of the lack of opportunity on the alliance side. Due to lack of opportunity it makes the selection of groups that do run extremely competitive.
I dunno… Like we probably have fewer pvpers than WOD but not that many less. In wod horde were viewed as the losers and there was virtually nobody playing the faction. Then legion came and despite Merc mode, despite faction imbalance and despite scarcity everyone swapped back to horde and alliance are in those shoes.
I think the only thing it relies on is someone seeing an advantage (seems like racials are the key) and the sheep following en mass.
its just the damage has already been done at this point and people dont want to switch due to pve and pvp its just easier to find people on horde and thats why hordes more popular atm nobody wants to switch to a faction thats dead
Yeah I wish there would be even splits. It’s way better for the game. Part of me wonders if making the ability to play both factions ruined faction pride. I definitely had more horde pride back in the day. Now I just play both Willy nilly. Definitely more to it than that but might be part of it.
Yeah I dunno… Exp boost is in effect, easy to level them alliance toons for SL. Who knows though, I could be wrong.
They do now, when Legion launched all the alliance racials were nerfed and then the pvp talent system emerged.
Then the horde racials ended up having amazing synergy with it, (relentless+orc stun).
Then after they nerfed the horde outliers and now they are fairly balanced outside some outlier situations.
I agree. Maybe in SL we could see a resurgence, but for me, I just hope the see-saw stops going up and down. It gets annoying and I enjoy having a little bit more rivalry between the factions.
Getting back to the main point of this though, your horde queues are longer for a reason. I don’t mind they stay that way. You have more perks being horde as a whole and if long bg queues are the bane of your existence you’re sitting pretty nicely. You can always find an RBG group easier and faster and battleground your heart out with that, usually short queues for RBGs, plus you’ll have to push yourself to get better competing competitively rather than the crap randoms can bring.
But to say NE is busted and equate it to all alliance racials being better. When again it’s niche, there is a reason why they are still doubled out vs humans and orcs.