So the experience you had last weekend was the same experience we have on the Horde at all times, with the exception of having to wait 45-60 minutes before getting inevitably stomped by the premade.
You can complain about having inferior racials but generally your gear will make much more of a difference in Arena than your racials. And unfortunately that gear is virtually unattainable for Horde players if they have to sit in hour-long queues for each BG.
I’ve been genuinely contemplating skipping season 1 pvp gear entirely and saving all of my honor (a whopping 9k since I hit 70) for s1 arena gear once s2 comes out because spending 40-50 hours on one piece of honor gear that’ll be replaced soon isn’t remotely worth the time investment.
I was a huge fan of the Faction V Faction test. I could actually play battlegrounds for the first time in TBC as a horde. The game was exciting and competitive for me.
Any blue post on if this will be a long term solution? I don’t have the time to commit to rerolling alliance and I can’t get a game in unless i afk for 45 minutes between each bg.
I am also genuinely baffled at how alliance can be upset about this change. I will literally camp lvl 63’s for an hour while I wait on my single BG queue because I’m at least getting honor that way. Is that what they want, cuz that’s what they’ll get while I continue to wait on my queues… lol.
Bring back same faction BGs so I can stop qing into alliance who have more gear than me. That is all. I’d love an equal shot at getting gear for rated arena. Thanks.
This was a good fix. In the same manner that the algorithm prioritizes playing horde vs. alliance before placing horde vs. horde, it should prioritize putting groups of 5 or larger against groups of 5 or larger before placing them in a match with solo players and smaller groups as a part of this change.
Right now it feels like premades have a higher chance of facing non-premades because the algorithm is completely agnostic to that element and only prioritizes lowering time in queue, which results in higher odds of solo players facing premades and vice-versa.
We need an update, now. It better be ready to ship next weekend, this entire thread is people positive for the change with little to no forum posts, all dissenters are habitual trolls. This change got people into the game so much so they logged onto the forums for the first time to demand it.
Bring back same faction BGs for the weekend please and thanks. Tired of qing into premade alliance groups with better gear since theyve had they queue advantage since launch of TBC
can we get an alliance to horde faction transfer deadline or something? There is too much money to be made turning this game into a 1 faction MMO. Just cash out already please, I am ready to faction transfer to horde, thank you!
I gotta say there are a whole lot of fortune tellers on the alliance forecasting the death of their faction as if somehow the players who invested 7+ weeks into grinding their toons are all of a sudden gonna forego all that effort so they can get some racials.
You really can’t stand the concept of players other than yourself also having a PLAYABLE pvp experience, can you? More geared teams to compete with in Arena is a frightening concept, eh?
I don’t know if this has dawned on you yet but any semblance of casual horde pvp is nonexistent if hour-long BG queues remain. Alliance faction is going to die out? Horde pvp faction is already dead. If you think the premades are bad now, wait until all the casual PvP’ers who don’t play in premades give up on pvp entirely. Then you’ll have a dead faction. I know I barely touched BGs before the changes and haven’t bothered with them at all since Tuesday. So what exactly makes you more special than us? Blizzard should cater to a vocal minority and alienate the majority of their playerbase?
Are you going to be implementing the change? Because I was having tons of fun with the 1 min que times but now things are back to 17m and I don’t even want to log on and play now.