Just announced the pvp gearing for 9.2
Still a rep grind per slot
Still huge deltas on top of borrowed power deltas
Still chasing out the bottom half of the ladder
So yeah, pvp participation will continue to suck - especially rated
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As an aside, I usually just go for the conquest gear appearances… but I’m assuming it will be based on the tier stuff they revealed a while ago. None of it looks that great.
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How will this work in 9.2?
Blizzard y’all have no respect for our feedback and time. You guys treat PvP players like second class citizens even though we pay just as much as PvE players.
1 honor and 1 conquest set is all we asked for. Y’all responded once to tell us you are ignoring our feedback.
And what happened to having an open dialogue in the community council? That PvP gearing post is being bumped weekly and y’all haven’t responded. Btw thanks to the council members who are trying to get through.
Y’all are losing your players because of your incompetence and arrogance. These players aren’t just those you classify as toxic either. But keep ignoring posts like this and see how that works out.
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Ahh well unsubbing. Hopefully the next expansion they will see sense. I got Honor Level 500 in the 2 weeks I’ve been back. Time to move on and not give any more of my moolah!
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They have to bank on players/population not coming back in full at least until the deal closes.
(if it does.)
9.2 is just the same Mau padding and Token sales pushing, the players who only pay for a monthly sub are peanuts on paper. (which is basically free with daily play earning gold)
Step back and really look at it from a business design perspective, past the wonderful creative art/music team which still rocks!
These players/gamers that have helped build this empire just don’t hold the
desired customer profile goals right now imho.
I may not agree with it, but financially it is a smart move.
Eventually once the bottom starts to drop out, they will be back into creating (maybe) what we had before.
Does it look like they listen? Hands tied? Bean counters on the trail?
Population is down, profits are up.
It’s not magic.
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Excellent news!
The tier sets are so bad lol. DK might be good, I’ll need to look again before I commit to liking it though.
Edit: DK got the best one, but jfc are they all pretty bad.
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Remember when they couldn’t get rid of the rating requirement “mid season” because it would affect the ladders (because everyone who would benefit would shoot right up the ladder /s). This only shows that it was bs then and they couldn’t care less about who participates in pvp.
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no real changes until next expac… as expected
Still rating tied to the gear? How many tokens does Blizzard want to sell off the PvP boosting? Here’s to another patch I won’t play (By my count this will be the 3rd expansion I haven’t played any random battlegrounds…).
Anyone know any fun private servers with fair casual PvP? (preferably Cata, MoP, or WoD)
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I wish so badly they would finally change this trash-tier gearing system. I’ve never wanted a “feature” to go away so badly in all the years I’ve played WoW.
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Same. It’s been a terrible few years.
Legion may have been fun, but I didn’t give any classes or specs a try and Feral was poo. I didn’t care for the ridiculous numbers/health pools in Legion either. Other than that, I do NOT regret giving up Legion for Overwatch - I had a blast in Overwatch! But I do understand my perspective of Legion was my own fault as I may have enjoyed the expansion playing a different class/spec.
But BFA…When was I supposed to PvP?? I felt like I did nothing but PvE the ENTIRE time. I admit to buying Mythic+ boosts (for end of week chests) in that expansion because I DESPERATELY wanted to skip the PvE and get in a comfortable position to play random battlegrounds…Never happened; PvE, PvE, and NONSTOP more PvE in that expansion.
Now Shadowlands…Tokens = Win. How in the living hell does Blizzard expect me to purchase tokens for gold to get boosted for gear just to stomp players of SIMILAR skill level who were unable to purchase a boost? If I play with my fellow playerbase/community in casual random battlegrounds it is going to be on a fair playing field.
I don’t count class balance as advantageous, every class/spec temporarily deserves time in the spotlight. I definitely stand behind Blizzard in their choice to have that “imbalance”/FOTM as an exception to the rule. But at the very least, gear should be the part of the rule to keep everything in PvP even, fair, and skillbased.
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Yeah I get the frustration hence the reason players are leaving WOW in droves for pastures new. They are totally blind or just don’t care about the subs because they make too much money elsewhere.
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What a joke.
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I wanna know why they think its a good idea to have 100 ilevels of power growth in just one expansion.
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To keep returning players playing longer.
for me it was literally the opposite. I left before patch 9.1 in 213 gear and thought hey ill checkout retail again, only to find that my gear was literally garbage and I was getting 3shot.
i had another 40 renown levels to grind through, and in dogsht gear. It was so much that I ended up quitting again.
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