Dual Spec. Fair trade.
It’s funny how I almost never post on the forums, and when I had this brilliant idea, the most discussed topic is ‘Dual Spec… Please?’, but I wanted to post it anyways.
Personally, I feel it’s a fair trade-off. Take away the Alliance War Effort, which is pretty much useless, and much like the other tests, let’s test Alliance Only Dual Spec.
We’ve complained about the disparity between factions and let’s be real, the only side where anything changes with the Merc BG’s is Horde. There’s still a billion Horde camping every raid entrance who KoS, there are always bigger Horde groups at every dungeon entrance who Zug on sight… More Horde farming the open world… Let us be PvP spec to have a better fighting chance more of the time, without having to sacrifice our DPS once we make it into the instance.
Everyone gets Merc mode.
It happens that alliance is too coward to queue BG that most of the times it is horde x horde, but occasionally if Horde cowards up just like the alliance, then you guys get alliance vs alliance too.
Damn… I get it. Alliance is too cowardly to queue BG’s, it’s not to do with Horde having 4000 more active users at all times than Alliance between the two Aus PvP realms.
I always wondered if it was the huge disparity in faction numbers, or the potential cowardice of pressing buttons in a BG setting over other settings, the coward thing seems more plausible.
@Drain 1k. Seems fair, but… With the promise that Horde never get it. Otherwise… Merc BGs should come with a 10g cost per queue.
You can queue normal BGs for free, as always, but you can tick the Merc option, but it costs 10g per queue.
The only time that has happened on our BG, it was considered a bug and Blizzard fixed it. Lol.
@Thereza, it’s not lost on me that I’m replying to a troll, but I mean… I didn’t expect this to be a proper discussion thread either so… We’re all having fun.
Have you ever wondered why a majority of PvP players are Horde though? I’m sure you’ve at least read about it if you haven’t, but given that the racials are very strongly geared toward the Horde in terms of PvP, of course a lot more PvPers would be attracted. There has always been a balance though. The balance was that because the racials are better on Horde, they take longer to gear up.
Now, because of the unending tears, Blizz is breaking that balance to appease the masses so… Let’s break some other things to try and get it back to a good place.
It was never a bug, alliance players are just the minority of PvPers so it makes sense there’d be less AvA games.
Blizzard reduced the chance of AvA because players wanted it.
No no, I mean it was literally considered a bug that Alliance vs Alliance games happened, this was addressed and fixed by Blizzard. The math on it was just wrong, and should’ve never happened.
It wasn’t a preference if I recall. It was that Alliance queues actually slowed down to be queued with other Alliance teams because the math was pushing Horde vs Horde more, hence why it was considered a bug.
@Zyotsu, you’re 100% correct. Perception is the exception to the rule, but generally, only for Dual DPS 2v2’s, it’s amazing.
It’s also very painful when the team with Perception is a dual DPS team. For anything else, it’s just good.
Anyways, my idea stands. We’re trying all these massive changes to the meta, so let’s try one more. Give us a week of Alliance with Dual spec, see how it plays out. Blizz is all about these 1 week tests, so let’s try it out.
Of course there isn’t…
The dismay if you actually read the threads though, was that queues had increased for Alliance when being queued against another Alliance team.
The day that Blizzard admits to a mistake…
