I have a suggestion to encourage continued player engagement in battlegrounds (BGs), particularly for those who have already achieved Rank 14 and may no longer feel motivated to participate due to the lack of rank/hour decay.
To keep PvP Battlegrounds active and exciting, I propose adding a dynamic cosmetic feature to Rank 14 weapons:
- Weekly Decaying Weapon Glows
- Weapons could gain unique glowing effects based on the battleground the player engages with most each week.
- Warsong Gulch (WSG): A fiery glow.
- Alterac Valley (AV): A frost-themed glow.
- Arathi Basin (AB): A void-like glow.
- These glows would decay/reset weekly, encouraging players to stay active in BGs to maintain their preferred effects.
- New Weapon Sheathing Feature
- As an additional visual enhancement, allow certain one-handed Rank 14 weapons to sheath on the player’s back rather than the sides. This would add variety and a fresh aesthetic appeal for PvP enthusiasts.
I believe these changes would help incentivize ongoing participation in BGs, keeping the PvP community vibrant while giving players a fun way to showcase their dedication and style.
Just spitballing some ideas, thanks for considering!
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your specifics aren’t my cup of tea, but your general idea I saw proposed in Cata forums could work for many areas such as vanilla-era low-level brackets.
Just gotta find a way to get people to login and play.
Unfortunately the vanilla honor system is very unmalleable the way it’s set up since no currency is involved. I think there’d almost need to be a bg marks to STV blood moon coins / reals to keep people grinding. Reals would have the option of buying mats for gold selling purposes, and the blood coins could get the additional gear.
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Maybe you could use marks of honor to buy tradeable kibble.
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how about having a ranked arena, and having high stamina accesorries, pvp trinkets and pvp enchants through the arena vendor, best items only attainable through a certain ranking
as well as top 3 arena ranking special mounts
rather than giving it for free in the bloodmoon
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Id prefer to pvp against people who actually want to pvp for fun and not for rewards. I dont need rewards to join BG’s and Im far from the only one.
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arena ranks are a good way to measure pvp skill
SOD is somewhat trying to measure skill through some hard modes in pve also
This is a great idea. There should be some cosmetic rewards.
I’d say add a bunch of permanent cosmetic rewards and maybe even some new mounts.
I’d also make some consumables like LIPs, FAPs, Flask of the Titans, and a new updated food/drink purchasable with marks of honor.
Also, throw in a new world buff you can only buy with 20 marks of honor. This alone would guarantee a lot of people doing BGs indefinitely.
There’s lots of ways to keep BGs active after Rank 14. You could even add a new Rank 15/rewards with the Naxx/Scarlett Raid phase.
How about actually balancing the PvP? Cause I’m someone who likes to PvP for the sake of it, and I barely have the desire to finish this last week. The games are awful. The balance is awful. The weapons are only worth it as second BiS in PvE since the PvP balance is so awful I won’t need the 2 handers that are BiS for PvP.
Idk why you’d even mention an arena mode, like actually. You want to fight tank shaman/x every single arena? Only takes a little while before it’s resto flavored tank sham+ele flavored tank sham 2’s at the top of the ladder. Enjoy your 10 hour arena game where nobody dies I guess? Sounds pretty pointless to me though.
RBGs make more sense for Classic than Arena.
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We don’t have time to wipe our own butts, much less add Christmas lights to your WSG weps.
Sincerely,
The dev team
You’re a non-stop bad idea machine !