I don’t want to be another person hating the devs for every change they make, but I do miss the thrill of never being safe or my enemies having nowhere to hide.
Does anyone else like being flagged for PvP 24/7? I think it makes sense to sign up for a PvP server and know that you consent to PvP at any given time. It’s always been so cool to me and I miss it.
Does anyone else agree?
Ya I miss it always loved wpvp when you had to do it. Now that I have a choice I keep it off though why inconvenience myself when know one else bothers. Just another bad change by blizzard we will have to live with I guess
If you keep it off, then it seems you don’t really like wpvp as much as you say you do
I keep it on always
As do I. So then, what’s your point? Seems to me, having lived with both, WM is better. But that’s just me.
I formally disagree. I feel like ever since it was added world PvP kind of died. I notice a lot more enthusiasm on the classic servers especially when they were the current expansions.
There’s really no reason to turn it on 
This got me thinking how much I miss the old PvP servers. No way to opt out and it encouraged you to rally your fellow faction players to join up to defeat your opposition.
I do like wpvp it use to be my favorite thing in wow and gave me a real reason to get geared and improve myself, I recently just came back from classic so I have no pvp gear I’ll just get owned over and over by people who are since there’s probably very few other people without gear who turn it on for no reason other to get ganked over and over lol. It shouldn’t even be a choice though makes the world feel very dead
People either want to wpvp or they don’t. Most don’t.
If there’s incentive and rivalries, vanilla showed that can be different in some cases. Or even BC with the zone objectives and stoof
Even cataclysm My server had two guilds that would always butt heads and it made it feel more community oriented I feel like… I miss it . They all went to classic the sequel
The problem is blizzard allows groups to just sit and grief and camp bodies. For example, a guild called “The Playas Club” has been sitting outside Orgrimmar for 3 straight days just ganking and greifing people. People like this chase people away from warmode. If blizzard simply got rid of the toxic bottom feeders of wow this game would thrive and draw in new players.
PvP servers were only great when they were balanced…the majority of PvP servers on retail were heavily imbalanced. Only a small handful of servers had close to 50/50 faction balance.
I miss the world before sharding on BH and ED. An awesome sense of community and scale that made it so exciting to go out and build reputations with people in the world. Sharding and war mode really ruined that.
I played on Horde Kel’thuzad during MoP and I kind of miss those days. Everyone was out to kill you, and you could kill anyone. There were so few Horde we nearly all knew each other, and even had random friends that would enchant your gear when we saw them in the world.
War mode can never create an experience like that again.
As much as I love world PvP, there are times when I just want to mindlessly roll around picking flowers or do some world quests and not be bothered. I will always be grateful for War Mode.
I miss when cc didn’t have diminishing returns.
Man you really are drunk.
Naw, I was just a bored Rogue
Turn on warmode and you can be pvp flagged all day long.
I’m one of those people that originally rolled on a pvp server because that’s where my friends were playing, and I absolutely hated the pvp part of it.
For every really memorable positive interaction, there were dozens of negative ones. And I think there were a lot of people in my boat, which is what lead to the creation of war mode in the first place. Being able to raid and be guilded with my friends, without having to deal with asshats that would camp me for hours if I didn’t log out/swap. It’s fine if you’ve got friends online in the evening. Back then I was in college with classes that didn’t start until 11, and I’d play a bit every morning, and it wasn’t a great time if you ran into someone that was going to camp you, and no friends were online. And general chat wasn’t better - TFC was heavily horde-favored, but people sit there and whine about a handful of particularly aggressive alliance players instead of grouping up and making them log instead.
Now the only people with war mode on are the people who WANT to pvp, and it’s not a surprise that they don’t find it very fun when they can’t pick on people who want nothing to do with it but were playing with friends.