Blizzard - please do something about queue times or honor rates ASAP.
This post comes as no surprise for anyone paying attention, but I think people need to see how bad it truly is when you try to grind honor as horde right now. I would like to start by saying that I am fully aware that I am inviting the Ally trolls to come in and advise me to reroll from Horde… but that is not an option for me. I am the GM of a guild that has been around since day 1 of classic with two 25-man teams and every single one of my longstanding friends play Horde. Most of my WoW relationships span 12+ years so there’s no way I can justify rerolling for battlegrounds.
The state at which honor is earned is unreasonable low. In three hours I’ve only been able to do two battlegrounds and earned less than 200 honor total. I waited 62 minutes for an AV that ended as soon as I joined only to wait another 50 minutes for an EOTS vs an alliance premade where I ultimately earned 21 total honor. Sometimes you get unlucky and this happens… but after several days of rates like those shown in the picture it becomes the opposite of fun.
TBC arena is one of my favorite things of all time and even if you put up with unacceptable queue times you can’t really get anything done.
Honor Rates
Please consider applying fixes to reduce this STARTER grind from 500+ hours. By the time most of us can finish it it will already be irrelevant and the gear gap will be so large it won’t matter.
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Why should blizzard fix your problems that you made for yourself?
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Amazing argument, we all should have rolled Alliance.
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But wait! The Horde queues are ok right now. Reports have them @ 10-30 mins.
What exactly is the current problem?
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Why didn’t I see the impending 500+ hour grind in TBC when I was creating my characters almost two years ago!? You know what man, you’re absolutely right! They should just leave this the way it is!
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I mean it is still your fault just because you didn’t have the forthought doesn’t mean anyone else is to blame
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Blizzard is going to put FvF bgs back in. It will be fine soon don’t worry.
People cba to wait 10+ mins lol
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that would be equally as foolish as all of you rolling horde.
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I just wish people would be honest. Right now WSG, AB, and EotS queues are quick, within 10 min. for the Horde.
This dishonest overexaggerating of the facts actually detracts from the argument.
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I mean sure… you’re not saying anything unexpected or interesting. Technically anything anyone ever experiences is their fault in a manner of speaking. I also never blamed anyone for this issue.
The fact of the matter is over half the player base STILL can’t reasonable access a huge part of the game. Alliance take that for granted and then come talk a bunch of smack on the forums. If the shoe were on the other foot I’m sure you’d feel the same.
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Queue for all three and post a picture right now supporting this claim. I’ll believe it when I see it.
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But again, current reports show that WSG, AB and EotS queues are good right now. So a huge part of the game is accessible.
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i made a horde alt in tbc and it’s still in queue for AV in retail to this day.
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Current Queue Times
Admittedly these are the shortest queues I’ve seen yet, but again… you can get around 1 BG in per hour once you factor in the time you wait and then play in the BG. Alliance can easily get in 3 or more in the same amount of time.
Something is seriously wrong with the rates at which honor is earned. I never remember player kills being worth 1 honor point.
This is from another player and admittedly a day or two old, but I have not heard the results are any different since this was shared.
What are yours right now?
Remember that AV is not a part of the FvF BG system change so those will be long regardless.
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you know what the meta was for the few days yall had instant queues? doing the same thing ally did, before. losing the quickest way you could because otherwise you were an honor pintana for horde/ally pre-mades.
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apparently a 27m queue is literally unplayable. 
they went from “i just wish queues were under half an hour so i could play the game” to “if i don’t have literally instant queues i’ll unsub because the game is unplayable.”
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You know you don’t actually need PvP gear in Season 1 to do well in arena right? It’s not actually required; you can gem and enchant PvE gear if you’re smart about selecting items that have high stamina values that are often DE fodder. Gems for stamina and enchants of the same survivability nature like Resilience are far less expensive than the gems and enchants typically used to give the PvP gear enough output stats to kill a flea.
The only thing in S1 that you really need is the PvP trinket, and then just get too it in Arena and collect that gear rather than waste time in BG
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this is the copium they use to explain how they aren’t glad level players. you could mail them full S1 arena gear and they still couldn’t get it. at that point the crying would start about class balance and they’d threaten to unsub over that.
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