Its not just pvp. Its pve pug scene as well. For the longest time I had trouble getting my foot into M+ because of lack of alliance guilds on my realm to join and trying to pug as dps without any exp to show. Eventually so bored with just easy islands/warfronts/wq for content, that I stopped my sub last year.
I don’t know if i’ll try M+ again, but were I to enter warmode by myself, my perception is, that I’d be globaled 100-0’d at every turn trying to complete any quest.
I’m not paying for a realm transfer to Stormrage both out of principle, and out of cost for my other alts who I try to share professions mats between.
I don’t think my realm would be a candidate for “realm connecting”. So maybe the layering they are planning for Classic could be something that would allow them to consolidate. Not just realms, but maybe they could “faction connect” across realms.
I’d be disappointed if faction pop doesn’t get brought up at Blizzcon.
For a few I thought they were just having us solo part of the quest line. I didn’t see another player anywhere, then a Tauren and a couple of Night Elf players would be seen around. I just didn’t see many players in Nazjatar. I am on Moon Guard, it’s not a dead server. The area just felt empty.
When I got to the mechanical gnome area it was crowded and felt more normal. Nazjatar just felt oddly empty.
I sure know that Blizzard doesn’t want to do this, but I know I personally feel it’s past the time for it to be done. We have so many barren wastelands when it comes to servers and people spread out. I know Blizz is all about the Cross-realm linking, but I feel like that sets up it’s own set of glitches and really only functions as a bandaid.
I realize they don’t want to do server mergers because they think it’ll signal the game is dying, but having a billion servers that is spreading people so thin is sending that same message all the same while making life harder for their players. They really need to bite the bullet on this and just start to merge the servers.
How do you make people join the underpopulated faction without making them insanely OP as a cheap, money grubbing tactic you know full well will get nerfed.
Players dont want to play on the underpopulated faction. Its a positive feedback loop.
Players like being on the winning side. Its why every pvp server eventually became lopsided.
Players want to be on the winnjng side while simultaneously having “others” to kill on the losing side. Guess what it isnt fun being on that side.
I havent seen many players PERIOD since the patch dropped. I mean, its like i have the place to myself. Its sad, i thought this patch would bring em back, sadly it seems to not be the case.
Introduce a buff for the underpopulated faction in Nazjatar that makes the individual players stronger, that only affects pvp combat. Kinda like how Wintergrasp worked back in Wrath. Problem solved.
I’m not sure what timezone you are in but at least for mine, 12 hours ago (when you posted) would have been 2 am. So if in the US That’s anywhere from midnight on the left coast to 3 am on the east.
On weekends when I rarely stay up that late populations are always low. I’m surprised you ran into anyone. That is compounded by it being a Tuesday night. While I’m sure we still have a sizable student population my entire guild has jobs/family/ect, that is way late.
I sporadically came across people while questing last night. To be day 1 of a new patch, seemed kind of empty. I saw more people in High Mountain, the Seal, and the portal in Nazjatar than while out questing. Suppose tons of people could have already ran the quests and moved on.
Moongaurd, the alliance crushes the horde every fight. We stomped them to the point the horde had less than 200 points both times I attended. There was alot of road fighting and it was awesome.
The difference between horde and alliance numbers is nominal, 4% difference of max level 120s (in horde’s favor)
Your faction just does not like WPVP. There may be quite a few who do in your community, but it isn’t terribly common i’m afraid. I see plenty of alliance out of WM, they’re everywhere, but when i enter WM they’re nowhere to be seen. This is why the WM leveling buff has consistently favored you all.
I’m also guessing the sharding issues from the BFA pre-event are funneling what alliance that are in WM into one shard and the horde in WM into another shard so you end up with terribly one-sided experiences.
Well first place how many of those 120 are alts and how many are actual people playing Horde over Alliance. I would be willing to bet its a lot higher then 4%.
Also you are wrong in saying Alliance does not like wpvp. The problem is every time they switch War mode on they are massively outnumbered, if its sharding or the imbalance I have no idea but it happens.
Now I will say that there might be a somewhat higher percentage of Horde that likes WPVP but its not like its some big difference and that Alliance doesn’t like it.
How about we relax and give it a few weeks and see where it lands. Its been 1 day only and this feels like an over-reaction. The BfN is a new system, it might take a few weeks for it to settle. Hold your horses … and pitchforks btw on my shard alliance dominated the first battle with a 3000 - 12 win. And i collected the 25 horde kills in nazjatar and mechagon ezpz by just questing around. Theres those stories too.
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btw on my shard alliance dominated the first battle with a 3000 - 12 win. And i collected the 25 horde kills in nazjatar and mechagon ezpz by just questing around. Theres those stories too.