Either kill cross server WSG or don’t let premades match up with PUGs. AV is already a dumb pile of repeat turtle garbage. It is a stupid system and an easy fix. I have to imagine there are a lot of subscribers who will consider leaving once their 6 mo sub is up if casual PVP is going to be continuously ruined by the tools trying to maximize their HPH. Make those players face each other.
Everyone joins a WoW server to play their own way, but if you make it only fun for only one way then too many leave. You clearly cannot trust the “community” to make things balanced.
“No changes” is clearly BS, but that is not even the point. Cross server wasn’t a thing in vanilla so why make it one now? If people don’t want long queues, then they go to the right server and maybe they won’t all roll the same faction. Might actually force some balance.
LOL. I thought it was obvious by the last paragraph that I am alliance. Dunno why my alt is my avatar not my main, but I guess it keep jerks from harassing me in game, so it works for me.
Premade dodging is a problem with both sides. The faction imbalance is a whole game problem. I don’t know how to fix that, but cross server play certainly doesn’t help it.
Premade dodging is a stupid feature. I’m not sure what blizzard could do about it even if they cared which i dont think they do because ill bet its seen as a fringe issue. That sucks.
I hope they do something. They will lose a lot of casual player subs if they don’t. I can’t imagine making a system with a separate queue for anyone who groups in a raid is that hard. They manage cross-realm queues, layers, etc.
If a Horde premade is dodging ANY games they’re hurting their HPH more than if they played the game out and lost. Alliance premades dodge, which leaves Horde to just play vs the auto filled Alliance
Three of the last four played a single horde entered the BG, waited for our side to fill out, saw we were a PUG, then the rest of his crew came in from the same server. That’s a scout checking if we are a premade or a PUG. I see it happen all the time. Both sides do it. I just tell my team to hide/not rez to punish them for gaming the system. At least they don’t get to farm us for HKs then. It is super boring for both sides and should be an easy fix.
It’s a big deal. It’s now 9 of the last 10 I queued. Makes WSG not an option. AV isn’t an option. World PVP is dead. Can’t get honor anywhere. Maybe as well not re-up subscription. Big bummer. I was excited for BGs.
Battle groups were a thing in vanilla it was added in 1.12. Yes the horde on unballanced servers will all leave, and go straight to the ballanced servers turning them all into horde servers.