Listen the queues were instant it’s great but I’m worried about the game. I feel like the game will slowly die from less populated alliance servers. IMO just give over populated realms a free faction change or give players the opportunity too have another boost so they don’t have too level all over again. That will increase alliance population. That or take racials out of bg’s which idk how well that’ll convince players but it’s a thought. Honestly wish they released tbc with no racial’s this time around. They knew it was a issue in bc when it was released last. Yeah I’m sure allot would’ve been upset. But just think people would roll what race they actually liked.
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This is a BS lazy fix from some dumb project manager somewhere who is out of touch with the game.
This is terrible its like who wants to watch star wars when there is no jedi and no sith lords but they’re all friends.
It’s just dumb. I played this series since original warcraft on PC and now this is enough. Unsubbed.
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You can’t have more then one boost. However if they implemented that I’m sure majority of horde would’ve bought another boost and just leveled the 12?levels without complaining. The issue was having too start from ground zero. That’s why majority of players that played horde quit playing and unsubscribed. If given the opportunity too change factions or boost another character I would’ve rolled alliance. I don’t agree with same faction pvp bg’s it’ll kill the alliance community. I think they either need too do faction/boost or take racials out the game completely.
I still wonder if this is a test wether to see if same faction queues work or wether it is a test to see how far they can push the game until its not TBC anymore.
hate it. and much easier to abuse farming honor and throwing games. this might be the death of pvp, and the game for me.
its a band-aid fix that doesnt help faction balance at all. with this change world pvp, and world pvp objectives will only become worse for alliance.
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Instant queues: great
Most matches were losses: don’t care
Played almost exclusively against Horde: color me surprised that you blocked cross faction communication. Good idea!
Wins were mediocre amounts of honor, losses were pathetic amounts of honor. This has needed looking at since day 2 of the prepatch, hoping it’s on the radar.
Teams tried consistently even in the face of utter destruction: kudos.
Alliance on the forums: in need of a carrot. I don’t play Alliance, have zero intention of ever playing Alliance again. But they need something to get their faction interested in BGs. Maybe try disabling racials as the next test, but be ready for another massive influx of people threatening to quit over that, too.
It’s a wonderful change, thank you. Really enables us to leverage our time much more effectively, increases participation from people who otherwise would never suffer the grind and really doesn’t take anything away from the Alliance, despite the protests from the vocal minority.
I also really don’t mind AV having longer queues as it positions those high honor earning matches as epic and special.
As a Horde pvper, personally I would still love a faction transfer option or some viable solution to enable better realm balance, such as capped side transfers or merging realms that are dominated by one side (merge an Alliance dominated server like Heartseeker with a Horde dominated server etc).
World PvP is super fun when populations aren’t extremely one sided and I only played Horde because of existing friendships that wanted to play horde because of their pre-existing friendships, but with the right free transfer system, we could move an entire guild of geared hardcore players to Alliance because we also prefer to be the underdogs (or at least don’t like being on the side with the overwhelming population advantage).
Anyways, great work on the update. It keeps hope alive that sensible changes will occur to deliver on the spirit of TBC: Classic - which is what we are here for.
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Another bonus is that this should reduce Horde ganking Alliance all over the world because many Horde pvpers will be in Shatt queuing and will also be less honor starved. I personally would kill every Alliance player I saw in the world because “sorry, you’re worth X points” - and every bit of honor was needed. Now, I’ll happily let the level 6x that is questing go on with their merry lives.
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I hope this does not stay permanent. Killing WoW Classic one step at a time cause your Horde player base are too dumb to make a smart decision and not play on a non-overpopulated faction.
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If the only reason you chose your faction was because the other one wasn’t working properly, and not because you enjoyed the races and cities and such more, then why are you upset by this? Now you can play the characters you prefer without being unable to play battlegrounds in a reasonable amount of time.
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Keep it please blizzard I will love u forever and ever! Btw I re subbed because of this and so did all my friends
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So far so good keep it up. Only thing is premades but it’s still ok
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Keep it this way I like it
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Love this new fix. Great for the overall longevity of the game and overall experience for everyone. Bravo
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Awesome change tyvm!
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Starting over from level 1 is different than paying a few bucks to move servers. Allow Horde to Alliance transfers, and maybe you would have a point.
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I hear the horde has a 100% win ratio now
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Haha I see what you did there kek.
Thanks for making faction imbalance on pvp servers even worse! Yikes Blizz!
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We all know the entirety of the alliance is hiding on pagle. Don’t kid yourself.
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its the only reason i played alliance and i have already re rolled horde lol