Takes me well over 30 minutes to get a dungeon and that’s even assuming I don’t have some AH stuff to do. Classic is not a game to play an hour or so per week. If that’s all you have, either do something else, or understand that you’re going to make very little progress.
Back when D2 was king, but after 1.09, we used to run Baal hours per day for months to get one level. If you died, you could lose a week of work. Gaming is only casual friendly in current WoW and Bejeweled. That’s it.
You can always twink in classic.
There were servers that were close to 60:40 ratios, that Blizzard decided to open free xfers and turn into 80:20 ratios. This is a problem Blizzard created- so yeah, they should be fixing it. Or if they’re not going to fix it, let the rest off- putting up a gate on the free xfers that late to prevent anyone else is like barricading the doors after half the people have fled a burning building- there’s no reason for it unless you specifically want the people inside to die. The game’s still going to be rough with 1.5 horde to every alliance, but that doesn’t compare to 4 horde to every alliance.
Nobody that Blizzard went out of their way to screw over is going to reroll.
This…
Why do you feel Blizzard went out of its way to screw people over?
Don’t like it? Don’t play it. Reroll on PVE, since that’s clearly your preference.
all these fools who rolled pvp servers thinking how fun it would be. anyone who played vanilla knew better. i tried telling everyone before it launched not to play PVP servers. no one listened
Read the rest of the post you didn’t quote.
Unless you’re looking to transfer to Heartseeker, all PvP servers are this way.
Ok, that’s fair.
In hindsight, Blizzard probably shouldn’t have catered to the whiners who ignored the warnings, and rolled on servers that were way too high in population, causing long queue times. But they did. And people who took them, had that choice, and made it. Just as people who rolled on those servers, chose to do so.
The best numbers we have (unless we have better that I am unaware of) indicate more of a 30:70 worst-case faction imbalance on Horde dominant servers; specifically Stalagg and Herod, with Fairbanks closer to 35:65, so while your 80:20 seems hyperbolic, the point stands that they went from not very good balance to worse balance.
However, I don’t know why there was ever any assumption that balance was or is an issue and/or consideration, in that knee jerk reaction to over-population, and people complaining of queue times (of which we were well warned).
Then, there is the matter that the hands-down worst faction balance that we know of exists on Heartseeker (where a lot of those who left the aforementioned realms transferred to). And it is more like 80:20, though Alliance dominant…
Here’s a quote from a Horde on Heartseeker:
Which one might take as a standard, expected opinion given the circumstances, and choices we are able to make for ourselves. Indeed, it seems like an appropriate opinion for someone who rolled on a PVP server, with the intention to PVP.
Who is everyone?
everyone who read the forums daily leading up to release.
Most people who play WoW never read these forums. Even fewer know they exist.
And a lot of them tend to be casual Alliance types who find their way here only when something really impacts them.
And it seems some recent change has triggered many of them.
People who would regularly read these forums don’t need any sort of warning at all.