[Towards my 2 cents I’ve played since vanilla launch and spent dozens if not 100+ in game days in battlegrounds]
I’m here to chime in on the WG issue, as much as I love easy wins on O I think blizz should bring back the +15% damage from having 3 towers, there wasn’t a reason to remove it and added another layer to game.
Decreasing the wall health by 20% would also be a suggestion, I’ve done something like 30 WG so far this xpac and I’ve won on O once when the other team was exceeeedingly bad. I don’t think 15 and 20% will be enough to fully balance it but it’d definitely be a start. Something like the old strand of the ancients with timer based sides and much weaker walls might work? Not sure how that would work on balance either.
With Ashran my main issue is it’s impossible to finish the conquest quest, by the time you get to the boss you’re already winning and the other team dies before you can suppress them at spawn. I think raising the reinforcement cap to 250 would be a good move, personally I’d prefer the BG be on a timer and not a cap though I can get how that wouldn’t work in a siege context.
AV, I really like the changes made in the last hotfix, there still isn’t as much mass combat as I’d like though it’s still there, I think raising the tower burn timers might be an option? like from 5 to 6 minutes. Though my main and really important comment is the alteric blitz is impossible to do and has been impossible for a few expansions now. Even in pre-hotfix you’d of needed a premade to even try that. I think it should be moved to a feat of strength and not as a core achievement.
I think it would be a good addition to add a boss add for the captain, I’ve killed balinda once in this xpac and that was during a turtle. It’d add another layer of the pathing attack/defense part of the matchup. Do we defend them, do we attack theirs, do we skip and go towers, etc.
Island of Conquest, overall I like where it is, stuff is imbalanced but in it’s own way and I win/lose about equal in it. Sometimes hangers wins, other times glaives win, I feel like the boss could be buffed to have an analog strength of 1.5 tower van, just so there’s a potential for actual defense, they die way too quickly.
Maybe bring back strand of the ancients as an epic bg and replace wintergrasp with that? and have WG as like a seasonal event like old av. I really liked strand and I think it’d fit the niche of vehicle/siege BG like wg is but with a much more balanced topline to attack/defense.
For BG’s in general I’d really like it if you could bring back the veto system, or at least for normal bg’s. I really don’t like CTF, though I’d go for almost any other normal bg.
BG weekends were also pretty cool, I miss going into AV nonstop for the day though that doesn’t really work anymore due to the honor system on random. You could compel people like me to play WSG or Temple if there was a dedicated weekend to it. [Brawls sorta do this but I’d argue you could do both.
Increasing conquest from pvp by like 25-35% would also be nice, though I understand it might increase the number of bots.
Overall this is a pretty long post, though I got those opinion things, I’d say pvp is an ok spot where it is though as always stuff can always be tweaked.
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