How was it stupid? I expressed sympathy and know it sucks but offered an alternative way out. I know it won’t solve the issue but I don’t think even blizz can do that anymore and its better than dying to raid zergs at least.
Maybe you should reflect on yourself before calling others stupid.
The first thing is the company made this a huge issue when it was a player-driven Issue giving a bonus was the wrong answer. This is why WM is so bad If you are on the Oceanic server you are being rewarded for being the majority, not the minority.
This has been a LONG LONG LONG standing issue along with a HOST of other issues the company turns a BLIND eye to and gives those on these servers the middle finger. I’m not going to sugarcoat what’s going on when the company could be honest and AT LEAST answer why they refuse or ignore these complaints since they have been going on for years now with no answer or attempted communications. Saying turn off WM is NOT addressing the issues
but ignoring it’s like the meme of the dog sitting in the fire saying This is fine.
This is why the bonus shouldn’t exist. To contrast I had warmode on the whole time and never SAW an Alliance. Not one.
Just bumping, this is a problem that needs to be addressed.
It’s really not hard just segregate the bonus between na and oce but if you shard to American realms you then get their bonus and not oce.
So shard to NA when it is good for you and shard to oceanic when it is good for you. I foresee a lot of people server hoping for bonuses when it suits them.
I doubt it people hate 250 + latency they would only do it if playing with a friend or grouping for a quest, also just limit how often you can jump?
You give horde on oceanic the call to arms gear bonuses or whatever they are planning in Shadowlands, people are going to put up with that lag for the small time it takes to join a group and complete that quest.
The same thing happened on RP servers where Alliance is dominant.
Balance can only come on a per-realm group basis. Incentivizing increasing the imbalance on OCE servers does not average out to balance on NA server.
Regardless blizzard should find a way to fix it, it is a problem.
Damn, an MVP actually giving a damn about oceanic?
Also as someone benefiting from how war mode has basically erased horde in oceanic I agree, this needs fixing.
I don’t think Blizzard would address any of the issues regarding the Oceanic Realms, considering they haven’t maintained them very well since they moved the Oceanic Servers to here in Sydney in 2014.
I’ve had surprisingly decent luck going through Bastion and Maldraxxus in War Mode, but the Maw is nigh-on impossible. It’s feeling like a 10:1 ratio there, and even when I finally got a tag on a mob after a while, I was swarmed by Alliance and killed before I could loot an item.
Guess it’s time to turn War Mode off for a while, and further exacerbate the problem. It’s one thing to make progress inconsistent. It’s another to make it virtually nonexistent.
i have to agree warmode is broken on Oceanic server it would be nice if blizzard address this.
I must be unlucky I had to turn off warmode on frostmourne because there were always to many horde in my shards.
i’ve been told there is a horde bias.
edit: i’m american but i’ve played with an aussie and a kiwi before and they both played on US servers. which is sad also bc they were only online at like 3am. i dont know if the faction imbalance was this bad during cata/mop but it was around that time. they told me they played on US servers bc there was more horde there. it doesnt seem fair. i think blizz shafts OCE servers HARD.
I leave WM off anyway (I almost exclusively play alliance) because world pvp is trash and always has been.