Midnight Q&A go give your pvp suggestions for Epic BG's

[Icculus-norgannon]

@Hadesu-stormrage

eep in mind that you guys are just a bunch of great whites in the 20 year old pool guys.

Great Whites can live to about 70.

Wonder what kind of mount we’ll get for WoW’s 70th??

[Leynia-emerald-dream]

Yeah it’s disappointing. I am glad they are at least acknowledging the difficulty in getting new players into PvP but to me their answers just didn’t feel like they had any substance.

[Mohz-nightslayer]

Hunter double tap has been removed… again.

Continuing the discussion from Midnight Alpha Test Development Notes:

@Linxy

PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER

• Elite Rank is now attained at 2300 personal rating (was 2400). Additionally, this also means that correlated ranks and titles such as Legend, Strategist, and Gladiator will have their game win requirements to be at or above 2300.
  • Developers’ notes: We’ve seen feedback around the top end PvP rewards being extremely difficult to achieve in the more recent seasons. Our goal with this adjustment is to slightly ease the requirement while still maintaining the prestige that comes with attaining these rewards and titles.
• BATTLEGROUND BLITZ
  • Eye of the Storm
    • Developers’ notes: We’ve reverted the Eye of the Storm map mechanic changes and made some adjustments to Swift Pursuit on the map for better traversing. Our initial goal with these map changes was to have a better gameplay experience with smaller team sizes on our larger maps. We saw that the changes on the map led to stalemate gameplay which we want to avoid.
    • The map mechanics in Eye of the Storm for Battleground Blitz have been reverted to align with how the map typically functions. This means that all four bases will be active at all times, rather than its prior functionality in Battleground Blitz where only two bases alternated based on flag captures.
    • The following adjustments have been made to Swift Pursuit for better map traversal:
      • Swift Pursuit now grants 100% mount speed (aligned with other large maps, Arathi Basin and Deepwind Gorge)
      • 30 seconds after the match starts, Swift Pursuit is increased by an additional 50% while on the map’s bridges (150% mount speed total).

[Lesi-sargeras]

sad bear noises

[Leynia-emerald-dream]

Something that for some reason they didn’t mention in the PvP section are changes to diminishing returns for PvP:

@Linxy

DIMINISHING RETURNS

• Developers’ notes: We are making some adjustments to how diminishing returns work in World of Warcraft. “Diminishing returns” refers to the system that reduces the duration of crowd control effects if they are used repeatedly against the same target. In order to make crowd control less frustrating in PvP, players will now become immune after 2 applications of crowd control from the same category (ex. after being stunned twice, you are now immune). We felt that very low duration crowd controls were making it hard to cast spells and generally felt excessive. For PvE, we are removing the immunity after 3 stuns. Our primary goal here is to remove the need to track diminishing returns state on enemies. Instead of enforcing a hidden and complex system to reduce effectiveness of stuns, we are doing a pass on classes and making sure the amount of stuns and their durations are appropriate for combat.
• Diminishing return categories will reset after 16 seconds (was 18 seconds).
• Creatures will no longer be immune to stun effects after 3 applications of the effect. The duration of the stun effect will continue to diminish in half upon each application, until they reach 1/16th duration, where it will remain until 16 seconds have passed.
• In PvP combat, players will be fully immune to a crowd control category after 2 casts (was 3).

CLASSES

[Owlcapwn-tichondrius (Owlcapwn)]

A lot of changes coming… nothing like we’ve seen before.

Midnight is a whole new game. My hype level is an 8 out of 10.

Now, I need to go finish up this Ruthless Renegade premade victory I’m currently in… because one thing that isn’t going to change - is the dominance we show against solo players. So many Honor Levels to gain, so little time.

Peeeeeeace.

[Hastegodx-stormrage]

It didn’t get lumped into PvP changes because it was primarily a PvE change to help deal with dangerous mobs in M+

[Hastegodx-stormrage]

Also I guess this means the usual suspects can stop spamming the forums with premade threads since they just basically re-affirmed that they don’t care about epic premades.

[Hadesu-stormrage]

@Hastegodx-stormrage

re-affirmed that they don’t care about epic premades.

Correction they re affirmed that they don’t care about epics.

0 questions revolving around them were answered including ones not about premades. And the new bg was glossed over in about 1 minute. And it was about it as an open world zone not a bg.

“It’s just a free for all…. That’s it” is basically what was said.

[Lesi-sargeras]

I wish they had at least acknowledged that the current EBGs should be maintained for player power creep through expansions.

[Mohz-nightslayer]

They will have to acknowledge it if premade show up on Beta and queue synch there to test the new epic BG.

[Leynia-emerald-dream]

I actually hope that happens enough to just absolutely ruin the testing so Blizzard is forced to take action (or maybe they won’t but one can hope).

[Mohz-nightslayer]

Who better to test the Epic BG’s than those who spend 24/7 in them.

Bring your MM’s, Bring your Boomies.

[Lesi-sargeras]

That’s actually something I had planned to try out.

[Hadesu-stormrage]

Blizzard developers vs the great whites who have been running these premades for 20 years ok.

That’ll be something

I’ll be there in them.

[Voidkissed-stormrage]

If i cared for this game like i use to, today would of upset me greatly lol. I’m desensitized to their BS and glad the rpers get their houses to sit afk in with nothing else but jump puzzles. I’ll be on bf6 instead.

[Leynia-emerald-dream]

@Voidkissed-stormrage

I’ll be on bf6 instead.

Got bad news on that front too.

[Voidkissed-stormrage]

What’s wrong with bf6?

[Mohz-nightslayer]

I realise they didn’t say anything about cross-faction LFG system yet. (dungeon/LFR/BG)

[Brigidd-eldrethalas]

BF6 will be fine, some people are just upset they are going private for some reason lol