What? In OCE, AV never (literally) pops unless it’s AV weekend, AV and EOTS are > 1 hour unless it’s their weekend and even then it’s 20-30 minutes. WSG is 30m-1h on non-weekend.
Gotta love all the alliance calling it “fake news”
“Omg theres no way the winrates are close to even, my anecdotal evidence of only playing solo and never in premades while afking after the first clash because overpowered racials made us lose says otherwise, i lose 90% of my games and its not my fault”
Theres a certain demographic of player that comes to these forums to whine about everything, and they aren’t winners
I think the above poster was correct. Those statistics are nothing more than giving the impression that this change is good for alliance too while they ignore the elephant in the room.
Or maybe, just maybe
Everything you just said isn’t true and is just rhetoric of a professional victim that refuses to look at things objectively and would rather have a scapegoat to blame for all their problems
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Some of us have seen Blizzard’s “internal data” turn out to be absolute BS.
Nothing wrong with asking to see their work.
Do you know how… seasons… work?
It was a nice change of pace being able to dedicate an hour or two of pvp time versus que’ing and setting timers before ques pop in the ‘hopes’ of not having to miss the battleground pop. Hope to see some more long term success w/ the same faction queues.
At the beginning Blizzard said if we want classic we get warts and all , now they are making major changes, wonder why many people do not believe what these devs say.
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Horrible change, with the direction this game/community is going I’m probably done with WoW at this point
Might come back to vanilla era if they ever figure out how to consolidate the population or offer fresh servers
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adios you will be greatly missed
is this live yet or any indications when this will be live?
Can something please be done about premades? As soon as this change was implemented, horde on every server were spamming the LFG channels to join premades, and significant portion of games are just premades steamrolling pugs.
Either set up better matching to match raids with each other more often (we’d be willing to give up a minute or two off instant queues to achieve this I’d imagine), or just stop raids from entering BGs like what happened with AV.
If arenas max out at 5, no real reason why BGs shouldn’t. I’d rather see premade parties of 5 that can’t really completely control a BG than facing a team of 10-15 and getting farmed at the starting point.
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atleast it’s faster than waiting 30+ mins to play— i agree it sucks, but its typically done rather quickly
I am a 1% pvper, I went alliance because I enjoy the way the characters look, the way the cities are laid out, it’s what I went first because my friends did, and it’s what I’ll always play.
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Do win rates between factions matter, when those win rates are probably driven by premades? My win rate plummeted, since I went from facing about 80% alliance PuGs, to facing 65% horde premades. Right now the WSG queue is 17 minutes, AB is 36 minutes, EoTS 23 minutes. Triple queue those and on average you’ll wait 12 minutes per battleground, which is not bad and much more preferable to me than uncompetitive matches against horde premades. I wouldn’t have even chose to play a warlock if I knew I was going to play against 40% undead players all the time.
Why not have horde versus horde battlegrounds only possible when the queue climbs to over one hour on average?
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Perception definitely gives WotF and Hardiness a run for their money in arena with the right comp.
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Not even close with WOTF. Perception vs hardiness is debateable depending on bracket
I’ve seen Alliance get Gladiator all the time on private servers.
Surely you understand how that is entirely irrelevant to anything at all.
Riiiiiiiiight??
How about some Data on
- How many Alliance unsubbed
- How many Alliance guilds were forced to server transfer
- How many Alliance servers died
- How many Alliance rerolled Horde creating a larger problem
Faction imbalance ruins guilds, servers, economy and thus the game. Will you open up FREE server/faction transfers for a solution or should I remain unsubbed with 15 days left and call it like it is…this isn’t TBC or anywhere close.
This decision will kill TBC on top of all the other bad decisions before it. Many of us want to play TBC and this isn’t it. Same faction BGs isn’t going to work but you won’t listen. Glad I have a main game as most do now which is why the state of Blizz and WoW overall is in such bad shape.
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