I tried the event for a second time. The entire match pretty much consisted of corpse walks with two minute rez timer waits. Again. I know, I need to get gud. I don’t know how long you have to stay alive to reset that two minute wait but it really is brutal. I know it’s a thing in the open world but for an event like this where you’re dying every ten seconds to five man groups? C’mon. The problem I was having was with the amount of traffic. Once you die there’s never really a clear chance to rez with the amount of people running around. When you do finally get a tiny window to rez you’re coming out at 50% health and hp with mobs all around so it’s tough to get any sort of separation from the chaos to reset. The other alternative was to rez at the GY where people just ignore the debuff and kill you instantly. I think in part it’s because most of them are unaware that targets with the debuff do not grant blood, so maybe that will sort itself out as people catch on. During the thirty minute event I did manage to get quite a few hk’s but they were basically all attributed to fending off aggressive debuffed targets.
Anyways, in the end I had 4 blood at my peak and finished with a grand total of 0 at the end. I also spent FAR more time in spirit form waiting to rez than actually playing. I love PvP but the end result was pretty disappointing to say the least. But being a PvP fan I’m thankful for the event (good job Bliz) and I’ll definitely try it again. I think it has a lot of potential for sure. But for now, maybe solo is not the way to go if you’re hoping to gain any sort of reward at the end of the event.
Killing people with bloodless debuff should make you lose some of your blood imo it would incentivize people to use their brains and not just mindlessly camp spawn points.
If you want Blood but don’t like the PvP you could always resort to killing monsters and goblins. I grouped with 3 other level 32’s and we just killed goblins and the occasional player and got about 119 blood (near the end we got a bit sidetracked).
The hotfix is objectively terrible. Where the fights were chaotic and fun before with tons of rewards, now the fighting is picky and stupid.
Bloodless targets running at you and you get nothing for defending yourself. Less blood(due to the event slowing down as a result of the debuff) so now dying feels terrible. The debuff ENCOURAGES kill trading. It just all around made the event worse and I run 5 deep. I cant even imagine trying to do this event solo now. The event is terrible in its current state. Just revert the hotfix please and actually think of something instead of just taking it out back and shooting it like this.
This is exactly it. It’s not like you were incentivized to die before, but the repercussions being low encouraged you to take as many fights as possible, which is perfect for a WoW FFA.
100%. Arathi is mostly empty. Much better zone for this kind of event. Should have been faction pvp with most of the combat taking place between the two respective bases.
10 days seems like a gross exaggeration. I went in with a group of absolutely terrible randoms today and walked out with a silver coin. Need 5 silver coins to get the ring, so that’s 5 events. Not even a whole day.
Every WoW PvP activity follows that same formula. I’m glad they did something different, and it tracks logically within the lore and plays into RP very well. A red moon driven lunacy that drives brother to turn on brother is super cool.
