Free faction transfers, increase rate of honor gain, cross-realm grouping with the retail Arena/Rated BG group finder.
I’m not even a dev and I came up with those in like 30 seconds. All would have been a better approach to “test for a weekend.”
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Fast queues are great. Masks, not so much. Just get rid of the masks lol
This might help a little. Probably not much.
Not fair.
We already have cross-realm BGs…
A garbage bandaid to a player made problem soaked in toxicity, sweatiness and a hint of stupidity. The masses of this games more destructive individuals chose to join the Horde solely on the basis of a percieved advantage in numbers and racials. Classic was advertised as a window into the old style of the game where factions existed and decisions like this only move to the destruction of the faction war. I saw the decision to make seal of blood and vengeance not unique to either faction despite it harming some role-playing aspects as necessary because it is seemingly a move to better the server balances. This same faction battleground decision only serves to harm faction balance on a much greater level.
As someone who is against this decision maybe a potential benefit could come from adding a financial (gold) price to joining these same server queues as having an in demand gold sink could serve to help our servers economic issues.
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most of us dont give a dookie if we have a mask or not btw
I love the change. If this stays I definitely won’t be cancelling my subscription.
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Game is finally playable
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Little strange getting used to being alliance, but not waiting an hour to que into a premade or 3/4 way through game is awesome
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Read your last sentence. Do you think horde enjoyed not being able to play battlegrounds? This solution is enjoyable for everyone. It promotes a healthier arena player base. It is a good change
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Works great so far, ques are a reasonable level, actually making this content available to someone like me who usually just PvE’s. I have seen reports on the masks not working and cross/team communication already.
Edit: I have done about 4 so far, 3 horde v horde, 1 horde v ally all have been very fast ques
I want to thank Blizzard for doing the right thing and making the game amazing again. I only wanted to PvP with my friends on Horde and now that is possible and it has made the game fun yet again.
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With this change you will cause the population balance problem to spiral out of control. Something needs to be done to solve the horde queue problems, but “fixing” them at the expense of an even larger problem is not it.
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Cancelled my subs after getting out of 10 mins BGs with 20 honor.
Horde have no incentive to play the long game anymore, we get farmed up to the spawn.
120 honor per hour, I will never be able to get my PVP gear.
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Thank you Blizzard this change is fantastic. My queues are less than a minute and somehow I find bgs against alliance players for easy wins 50% of the time. Incredible work. Resubbed for 50 years.
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How is increased honor rate “not fair”? Increase bonus honor for both sides. The honor rate was slow in TBC because Blizz didn’t want honor gear to outpace PVE gear. Now people were clearing Kara in the first week in blues and greens, so everything is accelerated. No reason not to accelerate PVP gear acquisition to match it.
We have cross-realm BGs, but we don’t have cross-realm GROUPING, which would require the retail finder used for Arena and Rated BGs. Lots of Alliance moved to PVE realms because they didn’t want to get constantly ganked while leveling and farming, so this will help players connect with more PVPers.
This would allow the Alliance on small-pop realms to find like-minded PVPers to group with.
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Thanks so much for doing this. Please, please keep it. I’ve had more fun queueing with my guildmates today than anything else since TBC has launched.
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Super glad this happened. I finally get to enjoy the aspect of the game I like most.
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And this is exactly why this isn’t a fair change. Horde now get faster queues AND get to have a higher win rate? Sounds real balanced.
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Greatest change you guys have implemented keep it please!
If these cross-bgs are kept then some incentive needs to be instituted for alliance. Bonus honor, cheaper gear, idk something.
0 reason to play alliance in TBC now. Literally zero. It’s going to be retail faction balance all over again at this rate. (Retail is 99% horde)
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