I did my rank14 grind during a period that transcended both 1.10 and 1.11 when AV changed. We very quickly identified and adjusted to the AV changes when they happened. People today are no smarter than they were then. We figured out how to rush Vann, maximize honor, back doors, everything within days. The excuse that people somehow know better now is straight BS.
Before 1.11 we never ever played AV for honor. After 1.11 we only switched to farm AV on AV weekends because thats the only time AV queues were short (we had instant queues in WSG/AB). It wasn’t until cross-realm came out with 1.12 that AV all-day, every-day became the new meta and EVERYONE hated it. I am so thankful I finished my grind before 1.12 because all my friends that hadn’t finished theirs yet were absolutely miserable.
blizz choose to use the 1.12 AV and the player base naturally gravitated towards the most efficient way of gaining honour though it, the player base doesnt get to be part of the decision making process, unless they decide to change the amount of honour or what ever the difference between the earlier version is nothing will change and the fact that they choose to go with the 1.12 and there isnt a massive backlash at it simply means that there is no way they will go back on their choice
There never should have been cross server queues. That was the dumbest move.
It theres faction imbalance on a server, the overpopd one owns world pvp and gets longer bg queues. Thats vanilla. Now blizz just spread the imbalance evenly to every realm for bgs.
The only reason that’s not a good idea is because it only fixes half the problem. It doesn’t fix alliance being grossly outnumbered in world pvp. Mercenary mode would be a giant middle finger to alliance players on pvp realms. There would be no reason for any alliance to stay on any pvp realms except heartseeker, and you get retail pvp realms where every server is 99/1. Obviously nobody wants that.
exactly. someone that actually played the game. all these trolls in here who think they know crap and continue talking out of inexperience gets annoying fast
oh i guess there is a outcry over it, fair enough.
so i skimmed the thread, seems the earlier AVs dragged out for a long time, you probably wouldnt get any honour from killing the opposite faction after a while, why would any one bother doing it?
People in wow only take the path of least resistance. Atm that’s AV spam. The honor system rewards pure time investment, not skill. AV premades are significantly more efficient honor/hr than WSG so that’s what people do. I agree WSG is more fun, but it’s not the meta. You’re never gunna get the 2005 meta back because it’s not 2005. And same server BG’s won’t fix the faction imbalance in pvp. It’ll just mean people on some servers will be better off, while others can never pvp.
it doesnt matter whether he played vanilla of not, this is what you have whether you like it or not, i dont know how if he played old vanilla wow or not invalidates what his said.
I don’t get you’re point? We don’t have pre 1.11 pvp. So my point stands. You’re never getting it back. There’s no way to fix the classic meta short of nerfing AV honor, or increasing alliance queue times to make WSG more efficient.