I don’t like it at all. It’s too random. And by random I don’t mean the nodes appearing at random, you can basically get to most nodes from the boats.
I’m sure it appeals to some people, but it kind of ends up being total chaos you try and steer in one direction. Pure “strategy” and “predicting the enemy” sort of goes out the window.
But that’s kind of part of the problem. You wipe the team and they get a free drop on you at another node. You’ll be like "whew, we managed to 2v2 the defenders, the node is ours! Then 2 seconds later 5 people parachute on you. It feels unrewarding for skilled combat.
In all fairness ToS sort of restricts how random I can truly be. I was originally going to post a Youtube of David Hasselhoff in a speedo, but I … bit my tongue … pun coincidental
There was one week I got it as my first random I think every day. If the BG pops and I’m on a boat getting yelled at by Nathanos there’s like a 50% chance I’ll take deserter, something I rarely ever do in other situations (unless I legit have to go or something). No better way to “vote” that I don’t like it than a metric I hope they see.
Think about it this way. If you side with whatever Blizzard’s decision on some change in the future is, or side with them on the status quo, you never lose an argument.
Really think about it. Have you ever known certain people to disagree with Blizzard, to make a post about it, etc.?