In order to obtain the BiS pvp rings, we need to farm spirit shards in certain dungeons. However, in order to loot these shards a faction needs to control 5 towers in the Bone Wastes.
My question is will Blizzard implement an alternative way to farm these shards? I see this becoming a problem in servers with a huge disproportion. The towers will essentially be camped all the time and a faction may never be able to collect the shards. Thoughts?
gather up some buddies, form a raid and take it to the opposing faction like you’re supposed to instead of hiding in a dungeon.
Downside of being on a lopsided server. Sadly you just have to deal with it. You don’t need BiS, it’s just a suggestion.
Y’want PvP rings, you need to PvP. There’s no problem to fix here.
I remember buying the pvp rings with just honor/marks, not these spirit shards.
There’s a ring with resilience on it you can get with the shards. I remember it being pretty decent for a ring you get before 70, but I’m not sure if it’s BiS.
Maybe I’m wrong though.
The difference between the S1 glad ring and the spirit shards ring is actually super minor. And later on it gets replaced with the S3 or S4 pvp rings.
I also doubt that there will be masses of people actually interested in farming that ring when there are LOADS of other more important items/reps to farm and the ring itself isn’t that much better that arena gear. So if you can get a squad of 5 or so people I don’t see it being particularly hard to win the PvP event. Even if your server has a faction imbalance.
Don’t you get spirit shards from outdoor pvp objectives…?
On a related note, I wish Blizzard would consider changing control of Auchindoun from 6-hours to 4-hours.
More potential turnover and world PVP.
Yes. The objective to control is outside in the world. The faction that controls does so for 6 hours, and during that time they get these shards by killing bosses in the Terrokar dungeons.
Pvp problems require pvp solutions. Even on pve servers you have to flag up to take them. If you can’t win you can always transfer to a better population server instead of asking blizzard to do everything for you.
Right, yeah. Its been a while. 
Transferring to “better” population servers is what causes the imbalance in the first place
You get spirit shards from quests at least as Alliance. That and the Telaar PVP are fun!