From today’s hotfix notes:
- The start time for the Battle of Nazjatar is no longer fixed to a 3-hour interval. The delay between events now has random variance.
- Developers’ note: As players have learned the timing of the event over the course of Rise of Azshara, increasingly the perceived optimal way to participate is to camp the control points in advance of the start time. By adding some variance (which still averages out to a 3-hour interval), we hope to make the Battle for Nazjatar more dynamic without reducing the overall frequency of the event.
I’m sure they could have found some other way to solve this without the solution being so annoying.
Like, just off the top of my head, teleport anyone near a control point back to their home base when the battle begins.