Skeram alliance is the 2nd worst server in terms of horde vs alliance ratio. Since phase 2, as alliance, it’s pretty much impossible to leave a main city without being instantly ganked. Anywhere you land, someone is camping the flight master and all the alliance players.
A raid of 40 people can’t go to BRM to raid MC without being annihilated by horde. It takes about 1 hour to make it from Thorium Point to UBRS since phase 2. Sometimes you even get camped in SW or IF by a couple druids and rogues. Forget about leveling alts as well…
Sure, pvp can happen on a pvp server. But the problem here is Blizzard messed up by not taking action when they saw the huge server population imbalance, knowing what was obviously going to happen once phase 2 hit.
We need a solution soon before most of the Alliance population quit the game on some of the most unbalanced server. Is it to implement severe faction specific queues on servers that have the biggest alliance vs horde ratio imbalance ? Is it to give horde free transfers off those servers? Something needs to be done fast.
We have invested so much time in those characters. We can’t just simply reroll PvE or go PvP horde because Blizzard let this situation happen.
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They did nothing on retail for years, what makes you think they’re going to do something on the side project that is classic…
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inb4 mouth breathers come in with “Shouldn’t have rolled on a pvp server”
No one wants to be outnumbered 4 to 1. Absurd.
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Haven’t had that much of an issue on Skeram. We’ve been having little bits of resistance while travelling to dungeons/raids.
We’ve also been doing a lot of 10-15man pvp groups and killing a lot of horde. It requires constantly stay mobile and together. Guerilla warfare starts its finest.
I have realized that we are food for the horde honor farming mega raids. They are like crazy zombie scrounging for honor.
bruh the horde here are crops to be farmed, there’s so many of them that yes, going places by yourself is annoying, but once you get into a 5-10 grp and coordinate pvp it’s a such a joke, we have multiple people above 80-100k honor already
Whelp…sound a PvP guild and move out in force. Don’t treat this as a solo adventure. This can be a fun opportunity if you organize and fight back…
…but I doubt it, wince you chose to complain on the forums.
The fact that their quarterly call indicates a very handy increase in income due to Classic would refute that. The Classic team is different to the BfA team - we have had far more input and responses from them than we ever had in BfA.
If they see that there are problems that could risk a drop in player numbers, I imagine they’ll be all over it. The fact that they have already instituted limited faction transfers on certain servers shows they’re ready to take action despite what some players may complain about.
So who knows? Keep your eyes on things, I’ll be very surprised if they don’t have lots of discussions going on about it.
This post is laughable, we do the same thing to Horde on the server. Sure they eventually call in 30 for a 15 man squad, but we are constantly winning the battles where we are even.
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Psst…
Shouldn’t have rolled on a pvp server.
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It’s not necessarily we are calling in more to combat you guys… It’s just as soon as we hear there is PvP going on with a somewhat equal ratio H:A… we all try and jump on it. It’s also pretty boring to never be able to find a fair fight for us. I’m sure it’s more annoying on the less populated faction side, but those of us looking to rank up on Horde are pretty fed up with the imbalance also.
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The Classic devs should resist the urge to tinker with what is basically a good product.
Look at retail, with the devs being able to turn all those dials and knobs to affect gameplay. Doesn’t always produce the desired effect and then there are the unintended consequences.
The game itself is great, I don’t think Blizzard should change the game itself. The problem here is the faction imbalance. When there is 5 horde for every alliance, it is unplayable.
The servers we’re playing on are like 5 to 10 times bigger than original WoW servers. This was a non-issue on PvP vanilla servers back then, but it is a huge issue now.
Poor thing. You can’t RANK UP. These people CAN’T PLAY.
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What in the history of WoW or any MMORPG for that matter could have possibly led you to believe that life on a player versus player server is fair and balanced? Ok, the one exception I know of was Warhammer: Age of Reckoning. If you attacked a player who was too low of a level for you then you were turned into a chicken for a few minutes. That was the only game I played that encouraged level specific world pvp.
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Well, if the total population is bigger now but the ratios are the same as vanilla technically there shouldn’t be a problem. Just more people fighting. There seems to be a lot of people upset that they are in the minority faction on some servers, any reason they haven’t gone out and actually tried to organize groups? Say on the server forums and Discord channels?
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You choose your server now get to the MMO part start rallying the troops and PvP or like you said PvP can happen on a PvP server,this was a choice You made and blizz should stay the phk outta it.
Save yourself,do something,or roll over and take it,you invested all that thought into starting that toon and did not take the time to consider maybee looking into oh idk the server pops? and it’s not like you don’t have any options or information at hand to influence your choice,I am just going to assume you do not like the answers.
Partly blizzard fault followed by the alliance , at launch there was alliance everywhere and it seemed pretty even .Then they allowed two transfers and all the alliance left .
Blizzard opened server transfers a while back and a lot of alliance transfered off. The server used to be 45% alliance, 55% horde, but now it’s like 22% alliance 78% horde.
It is very much Blizzard’s fault this is happening.
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after they opened up free transfers and alliance bailed i rerolled to a different server. Still horde dominated but they get their s pushed in everywhere i have seen unless there is a pack of 20 killing soloers riding for 5 min and then killing another.
For me, its all about the population
Get Vanilla level server caps and you lose this stranglehold EITHER faction is able to get on the world.
Theres SO MANY PLAYERS that even from a technical standpoint this just gets senseless.
i was in a pvp raid the other night i couldnt fight in because the server lag got so bad. All the melee were told to afk in the back lines at southshore, until we were actually able to scatter the horde enough to perform flanking maneuvers.
And that was only ONE raid that night. You have to consider if it would be anything like this if populations were scaled by a few factors