So how do you (Blizzard) plan on fixing the long term issues of battleground queues being vastly longer for Horde? This not only makes it easier for Alliance to make premades in AV, but it also creates a larger gap in the honor needed for Horde players to rank in this archaic system for ‘PvP’.
I’m not coming here to ‘cry’ or be a ‘baby’. I’m trying to address an issue that never existed in vanilla to this extent. As much as you guys say it was a thing in vanilla, there were not this many players with the current knowledge of min/maxing. Could we see some sort of merc system or same faction bgs being implemented by AQ? Could we see a fix for Allliance exploiting mobs for the final boss of AV?
I might sound passionate, but it’s only because I have yet to hear Blizzard’s thoughts on these issues involving PvP for the Horde. I’m sure you guys are loving your subs climbing up due to the new BFA patch. They for sure dropped a week after honor was released due to the toxic, over-populated player base climbing a very insane honor ranking ladder.
I guess you shouldn’t make changes because it wouldn’t be true to the game. But maybe you should make changes to keep that game alive for more than half it’s intended cycle. Follow other companies who have thrived off of taking a retro version of their game and growing from there. Don’t see it as a path already taken, but a seed that has yet to grow.
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I’ve been asking these questions since original Vanilla. The OBVIOUS fix is to allow us to queue as a premade, a raid, just like pve. For 15 years the answer has been silence and totally ignored the player base on this one. We could really have CLASSIC AV BATTLES. I don’t think they will ever do it. Their answer in Retail is the bs mercenary contract.
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it’s kind of funny how hard horde has to work to get more honor than bots, would be nice if blizzard was actually banning them and not trolling players with the “ban waves”
Retail is waiting for you if you want a merc mode.
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That’s where the idea of merc mode came from all the way back in the Ashran days. Why not take an excellent balancing idea and implement it here in classic?
Because Classic isn’t Retail.
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Classic also isn’t vanilla.
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wont happen in classic, or tbc server… the only chance for soemthing like that ever happen, would be classic+
The only future I really see for Classic to grow is a Classic+ that melds into TBC. If Blizzard polled the current classic player base, I would bet money that 80%+ would vote for TBC to be released, just not re-released how ‘Vanilla’ was.
You do know XRBGs weren’t added until 1.12 and that there were way more servers then we have now in Classic right?
i can considder a classic+ that have TBC, but horde shoulde never get paladin and alliance should never get shaman, that was like the defining big difrences… and preferably keep it still 60…
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I’m sure you’re aware that the overall player base at end-game content is much larger this far into the game than in Vanilla, hence all of the HoR you see running around in BGs.
Hmmmmm let’s see … if you have 20k horde queueing and 3k Alliance queueing … hmmmmm
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Merc… hmmm… same faction bgs… hmmmm… Oh let’s play the game of actually contributing nothing further than the OP
or allow all racials, to be open to both sides… hmmm maybe that even out the que ? 
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That could be something that would balance it out. I know a huge reason so many go horde are specifically due to the racials that horde has to offer.
yes, they give horde a pvp edge, while alliance is seen as to have a edge in pve… i personally like this difrence, since it makes a flawed unbalanced imperfect game have difrences… things isnt fair…
if you want things balanced in a effort to make everything balanced, you will end up with retail, where every class can do everything, and the unique things been removed from the game… things their now realicing was a mistake and are adding back…
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I still think adding a merc mode for quicker queues for horde would be the simplest, least game breaking fix to queue times/premades.
again, both sides have flaws, things that create issue… when you fix one thing for one side, you mitigate a flaw… that very flaw you fix, is the cost for you racials…
you cant mitigate that racial advantage, you want to fix it, you need to fix whats cousing it, in the first place… HORDE RACIALS…
The issue is number based, and having something that opens that bottle neck of numbers would be a huge advantage in skewing the queue times to be much shorter for the horde, twofold