Using this video as a frame of reference
I’m all for pvp and love it, but I really do think blizzard should consider capping faction limits. Posting the video because it sums up all the issues I think everyone complains about all in one clip. I’m a Horde player and love it but just a way to show that there is in fact an objective imbalance that is making alliance players not want to play the game. Noticing less and less come out in the past few days. On another note to add to this, we had a mc raid come through right after this clip was filmed. Literally had just turned obs off and they were camped to the point they disbanded and quit trying to get into mc. They were farmed for about 30 mins or more after stepping off thorium point and made it to the main gate where they decided to quit. I know it was an MC group because of the raid buffs they had on them.
Some points that I know will come up and some stuff that may help
- Why am I saying fix it if I participated in it?
Because its the way game functions right now and if you want to keep up in honor, it is the way you have to play
- How to fix it
A) Put in BGS like asap. Tomorrow fast. It will take away the incentive to farm this way and give honor from arena and with how many people are playing the game currently, it will be a viable alternative to what we are seeing. It will not fix it, but it will most certainly mitigate it.
B) Set a cap faction limit. Screw the entire idea of keep the game the way it was. Different times, different amount of players in total that are playing. Adjust it to fix the issues that we are seeing currently
C) Open up transfers for people who want them to PVE servers only, otherwise we are going to lose a large portion of the population to quitting.
Not complaining about the game, I love it. I would play whether I’m getting farmed or the one doing the farming. But I can def see how some people are getting frustrated and wanting to leave.
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As frustrating as it is for alliance, this looks insanely boring.
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Lmao yeah this seems miserable from both perspectives honestly. Imagine being in ganksquads and raid groups lmao
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Basically the life of 90% servers for alliance before warmode. But now they have dedicated 10 days played for it.
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Wpvp is boring 99% of the time. Bring out bg’s!
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Someone should make one of those '06 montages in movie maker. Throw in some Godsmack or Drowning Pool for the added flair. Add some whacky transitions, throw in some chiller font.
But then only include this kind of footage.
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I see alot of horde having fun… what are you complaining about? you want a challenge roll ally. Look around you there are hundreds of horde. If they found it boring they would do something else… but they are not. Stop crying
Geez, imagine having to grind to HWL like this. Makes the original HWL grind look tame…
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It’s basically all tagging people atm. There is so many people fighting for kills you don’t really get 1v1s. You just try to insta cast a spell or skill and since everyone is doing the same thing, whatever you are targeting dies instantly.
Its def different than og classic, changed up my pvp spec to focus on insta cast moves to adapt to it
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Couldn’t make it past the vapid and uninspired music
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It literally has to be people who just want the epeen from saying they play on a pvp server. They don’t want to get camped but wont reroll. I do agree on a free pvp to pve transfer. If that means no one left to fight on pvp server so be it. It proves they weren’t made for pvp servers.
They could do faction ques and watch a lot of other players quit because they wont reroll just like the losing faction won’t. So whose sub matters more. The person that obviously rolled on the wrong server type or the person being punished by blizz with faction ques for playing with where their guild went.
I have 100 honorable kills on classic because I realized within 20 mins its basically pve atm and I haven’t camped anyone. It is what it is accept it or move on.
Posted this in another thread but its the truth as much as that video. Pick your poison. If they lock factions people will quit just like the people that wont reroll. Either was you won’t win if you honestly care about the health of subs.
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Dude, these people -want- a PvP server. They just don’t want to be outnumbered 4:1 while doing it.
This is 100% blizzard’s fault. How do you fix it? People the people who legit cannot play the game sure as heck aren’t waiting it out.
Again, you -cannot- play the game on servers like Skeram on Alliance. 80% of your actual playtime will be spent looking at a 2 minute rez timer. You cannot take any form of transportation without being ganked. You can’t even take a portal without being wrecked by rogues the instant you load in.
This isn’t a PvP server problem man, it’s a blizzard issue that needs to be fixed
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Always nice to see an unbiased perspective of things. It’s really a shame that some people get a feeling of superiority from playing the game like this. Prior to this whole fiasco I’d have assumed people would enjoy getting into smaller skirmishes where you winning means you outplayed your opponent with tactics instead of numbers.
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What I try to think of is people who have like less than 4 hours to play
imagine having a few hours a day, you sit in a hour que, you log on spend an hour getting mc buffs, and then you get farmed so hard you log off because you cant get to mc
I just don’t see it as healthy. BGS and transfers will help I think
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They aren’t going to take it seriously until they’ve run out of enough alliance to farm to counter their honor decay. I’m willing to bet that the same people constantly saying PvP happened on a PvP server are going to be begging more players not to leave their server. Or maybe they’ll see it as they won which to me seems like a hollow victory but to each their own.
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Agree that doesn’t even look fun at all. I would rather log off then beat up a bunch of lowbies. I know i cant level anymore so i canceled my sub. My mains server is looking more dead every day. Sad day for alliance.
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Why did I roll PVE server? Because I knew this stuff would happen. How did I know that? Because I know what kind of people play on PvP servers, and if anyone wants to dispute me, I will refer them to this video.
PvP used to be an extra challenge to the game, but that changed long ago. It is and has been for years, little more than an outlet for angry, vindictive people to vent their rage at others.
This is why they will stand in one spot for hours, something any normal person would never bother with. This is what you do when you’re very, very angry at something, and can never get enough of trying to make others as miserable as you are.
SOOOOO glad I rolled PvE
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All for PVP, but it gets to a point where the type of pvp will kill the server. If you cant raid, farm gear, level, get into dungeons. Why do you play. Faction imbalance with the way honor currently works is going to drain quite a few people
I agree, people will say its their fault for rolling on a pvp server or go to a pve server. Which is all well and good until there is no one left to kill or pvp with.
This morning I waited hours before I even saw people, seems most are just raid logging currently
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Reminds me of the folks that line up at 5am in the Walmart parking lot on Black Friday, climbing over each other for a chance at a poor quality LCD TV.
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