The original ranking system in Classic was horrible and pretty much every sane person agrees it was.
Competing against your own faction was a dumb design. It was also possible to exploit the system and monopolize it so only a small group of people could rank up each week. It required too much time investment and was objectively unhealthy for players. It also caused way too much drama and things like false reporting people to get them banned.
It was just a very badly designed system.
The new ranking system in era is perfect and I can’t wait to do it on a Fresh server.
You don’t have to compete against your own faction, you don’t derank, and you can play when you have time. It’s also not free and you have to put in effort to rank.
There are literally no downsides to the new ranking system.
I for one congratulate Blizzard on doing a fantastic job with it. They came up with a fair and achievable system that also requires effort for the top end rewards.
Very well done.
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For the time period it came out it was fine, somewhere between sort of casual by comparison and no worse than any other MMO when it came to the grinds meant for no-life uber nerds.
The concept is pretty straight forward: The player who consistently gets the most honor on your faction on your server would become the next High Warlord/Grand Marshall.
It does make sense that it is same-faction competition when you understand what the competition actually is.
The rest of the problems with it are mostly player created. For some reason people misunderstand and think they are entitled to grind out that rank and gear. If that was the intention Blizzard would have just done the ol’ pre-TBC ditch and switch and made it all purchasable with honor points.
The old ranking system was absolute cheeks, I agree. But this system is also crusty booty cheeks too. Too vague and wonky.
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That seems unlikely. I’m sure it’s an improvement in almost every way but I don’t believe it is perfect.
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As someone who got rank 14 back in vanilla, I’m totally fine with the new pvp system.
I would have also been fine with the old pvp system with a single change: Decay for the week does not happen unless you got 15 HK’s that week. This would’ve allowed for people to take breaks and come back without losing progress.
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Well there’s nothing we can say or do to change Blizzards mind about it anyway.
If we say left, they say right.
The way it’s been since…well lets not get into that.