I know I’m not the first, or even thousandth person to say it, but Blizz, for the love of f***, please let us tick off two boxes for our least favorite BGs to exclude from queues again.
I absolutely hate what you’ve done to Ashran, it sucks, it’s not fun, even when winning. It’s a waste of my time, I don’t want to play it ever again. I hate it. My feelings are identical regarding Wintergrasp, for the same reasons.
The larger issue here, however, is that premade discord groups are using these two battlegrounds to farm honor and conquest. Your half-measure of reducing the conquest from successive victories in regular BGs even further than before does very little to discourage this. Both of these BGs are determined, nearly 100% of the time, in the first exchange, with premades always winning out over random pugs.
No, I’m not going to join a discord premade group for casual BGs. This game is supposed to be fun, and you’re allowing these groups to ruin that for everyone.
If we could just exclude these two BGs from the random queue without the penalty to bonus honor/conquest (used at this point for gearing alts, alt-specs, etc…), then they would have to play with themselves instead of trapping everyone into playing almost exclusively these two maps. I get these two maps about 70% of the time or more, and I’m just tired of it.
I’ve been playing WoW for nearly 20 years, I’ve bought copies of the game for friends who couldn’t afford it, tokens to renew, and I’ve kept my sub going even during times when I took a break from the game. I know what I do and not like, and well, this just isn’t fun like this. I like to play casually, not hardcore, because it’s a very social game, but when things like this drive all of my friends away from the game, it drives longtime players like me away as well.
Ball’s in your court, Blizz.
