As an Alliance player - Alliance really have no reason to complain about this and I welcome it with open arms.
We now get an added reward. Bonus honor / marks / currency / trade mats for queueing? Count me in. This is especially beneficial on horde dominated servers, where alliance are struggling to farm raw materials and are flat out quitting due to the state of the game.
As evidenced in the previous test and stated in a previous blue post, this also improved alliance Win/Loss ratios. I’m not sure about you but I absolutely hate queueing knowing I have a 90% chance to just lose. It’s also very unfun playing with a bunch of whiners who just AFK graveyards. The play test weekend was absolutely fantastic and I was able to grind out multiple pieces with a much higher Win/Loss.
Horde now also have a shot at being more competitive in PvP. There are a lot of players who came back to TBC exclusively for Arena. Imagine not being able to gear yourself for what you came back for because you have to wait an absurd amount of time just to get a game, all because you selected a specific faction.
“Blizzard should just fix the server transfer issue!” That may not be as easy as it sounds. The game will always be metagamed and you cant prevent a player from playing what they want. Racials play a big part in PvP/PvE, and always will. (Wait until lots of people flip over in WOTLK, its normal).
“Well its their fault for picking Horde” Grow up. Some people picked for racials, some people picked for looks. Either way, they picked a faction they like, they dont deserve to be penalized for it - especially when paying a subscription.
“You’re ruining the TBC experience and I’m quitting!” Good for you. If you really think a positive change to the game that will prevent hundreds of other players from quitting, you really shouldn’t be playing this to begin with. Stop being a baby. Also keep in mind THIS IS JUST A TEST.
I’m excited to see how this second test goes. Thank you for taking a step in the right direction Blizzard. Interested to see how the 5-player cap works out.
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This, echoing all of this.
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If a group of 5 ques into a full alliance premade that would be absolute trash…
Wat? Premade vs pug as the pug team is the worst thing about BGs in this game.
Yeah ok
Who’s punishing alliance? You’re getting a bonus for playing, something that they’ll never get.
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they’re limited to groups of 5 too…
In the spirit of Some Changes, dual spec and rated BGs looking might fine right now… just throwing that out there
We’ll his suggestion fixes that. Have a seperate queue for premades over a certain amount of players in a grp. Imagine not even remotely catering to people who actually want to be competitive in this game and play with a full squad and only catering to cry babies.
you need to get immediately fired for even THINKING that putting this on the public forums was an okay idea, and anyone who thought this design philosophy is correct needs to get terminated too
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I think this is a fair compromise for both factions (I play both factions and like it for each side).
Not complaining about some of your ideas cause it does help the solo q however something to look into and how often it happens is Alliance will still be able to do premades with 2 groups of 5 queing at the same time… they do this in av they get on discord and all the players q at same time and most the av is a premade from all different servers. Me personally if you keep premades in the game anyone and everyone can do them if you choose to solo q thats on the player alone in my opinion its not hard to find a premade group when q’s are fast thats why a lot of people were doing them.
You summed this up perfectly. Honestly it all comes down to what extra “loot box” will contain. If it’s useless mediocre junk that vendors for 1-2g then we will have an issue. If it’s a green BOE + small crafting materials and a 5-10% chance at a primal nether or a BOE blue then it could work out well.
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Seems like an over reaction there bud
100% everyone who decided this is a thing that should be changed should be fired today.
battlegrounds… competitive? That’s what the whole arena thing is for bud
sorry but this is the standard of the forums