I thought it was bad pre-season, where we were out numbered like 10-1, and I had hoped it would get better with the coming season. Instead it has gotten vastly worse. We are out-numbered here like 25-1, and it’s impossible to do anything with Warmode on. I’m getting jumped by like 4-7 Alliance at every single World Quest, and I’ve managed to get almost nothing done in the span of an hour and a half. Can we PLEASE please PLEASE shard us with some more horde heavy servers. Or maybe split up the MG shards please. It’s depressing out here. Genuinely depressing, disheartening, unfun.
Im here to affirm this. This is like my second forum post in 20 years to express just how abysmal this gameplay is.
Ive been on doomhammer for every single day of those 20 years. Not once have I had the issue that im having now with world pvp or war mode.
Earlier for the world quest in silvermoon I was there for over an hour getting camped and trying to die close to the border to the quest so maybe I wouldnt get sniped before I was able to res and mount. I cant tell u how many times I died but I was at the 2 min respawn timer and saw that at least 7 times. Thats 14 minutes of 0 gameplay. 0 ability to do a thing in the game except log off and maybe try another character.
Its bad enough that doomhammer is 30% horde to 70% alliance. I dont mind being the underdog at all…. But the alliance i was getting camped by weren’t doomhammer alliance… I counted 13 different servers and now im questioning if im going to continue my subscription or give it up for good.
Azralon, illidan, magtheridon, quel’thalas, area 52, storm rage, and those are just the ones I remember.
Stop sharding and phasing the game. Please for the love of God. I cant afford to move all my characters to servers where its more balanced and even if I did, im too worried that if I do that ill be met with the same issue. Outnumbered 20-1 because of mixed server chaos and horrible phasing mechanics.
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Ill counter that and say everytime ive been solo and someone tries to gank me they usually get destroyed and will magically port away or bubble hearth before dying or even after they see im putting up a little resistance.
I Was leveling on my alt and had something similar happen where a level 90 with very low max HP tried to gank me and I began winning and he ported again. The stakes of being in warmode while allowing these babies to escape being murdered makes zero sense.
This part I can agree with as it seems most alliance will shard hop to group with each other to finish a simple world quest overloading the shard with alliance as most of the horde seem to leave instead of doing LFG. If they just didnt let people shard hop it would be way more balanced. If it was about doing stuff “with friends” just make it like how it use to be where they had to go back to the main city and fly out again to be on the same shard and not server hop.
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Only ever been attacked by people 5 levels pr higher on alts. That said warmode and all pvp servers are mostly gank groups.
People who pvp play rated. Though that has been made worse from the bloody coin nerf.
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I came to the forums to find out if I just need to transfer realms… worried that won’t help.
It’s awful that I have not been able to grab a single crate since Midnight launched. My issue is landing at twenty to thirty Moon guard alliance. I’m Always the lone hordie flagged in the world.
Is Slayers rise better on other realms, or not? If Wpvp were possible to play, I’d make that my whole game mode.
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Alliance were underdogs for so long that I can’t feel any sympathy for any horde. It’s your turn.
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There’s always ten plus Ally at my crates and maybe ONE Horde who just keeps flying lol.
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When you guys were underrepresented in PvP, you still were majority of PVE content… and you all complained for War mode buffs, which you got.
With tables turned, no buffs.
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I really wish there were better options for sharding but I can’t say I would weigh heavier on adding more non-rp realms to the RP shards vs leaving them as is. I enjoy being able to recognize faces and guilds on the RP shards, and I think it really benefits for the “warmode like feel” usually.
That said, it has been abysmal this expansion. I’ve felt the need to shard off of RP realms to even have a chance at getting my conq cap, which never feels good.
I believe the biggest offender right now is the amount of shards there are, I can be flying around in Eversong for an hour, swing by SMC to sell something, and pop back out and I’m in a new shard. It’s fragmenting the already underrepresented horde terribly, and I’m sure the Alliance would like to be able to fly around and see people to fight and not just one off stragglers levelling.
I can only hope that it does down with the new expansion hype and they stop heavily sharding as much as they do, but we can only beg so much.
I feel a little bad for horde who enjoy WM. You’ll have even fewer horde doing it now too because WM gear is basically useless.
What’s funny is most of the die hard horde people faction changed to alliance. People like you are super silly.
Our turn to get AoO weeklies.
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The WM gear being useless has completely ruined the fun for me. It was a perfect system in TWW. Great job Blizz
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Pretty sure warmode combines all servers except for RP servers… which even then.. can still see outside realms due to grouping.
Moving servers would be 100% pointless.
Im on StormRage for example, one of the largest servers in the game. We could easily fill multiple phases with just StormRage people.. yet I routinely see 20+ different servers all lumped together.
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I’m totally ok with that.
It doesn’t. It’s tied to server battleground (or maybe even the server’s data center/timezone?)
For example, Im on Bleeding Hollow, I’ll never see players from servers like Spirestone or Tichondrius unless someone gets invited into the other shard. Same goes the other way around.
You’re right that grouping can pull people in from other realms, but it’s not how shards are naturally formed. There are clusters of servers you just won’t ever run into unless someone is coming over through invites.
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It’s been bad for Horde since Panda ended. Really bad. That’s quite a bit of time .
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It’s still heavily sharded.
Pretty sure warmode combines all servers except for RP servers
Nah. If I turn it on I see nothing but schmucks from Illidan, Area-52 and Tich.
Fun fact, We got moved over to be part of everyone in the dumpster fire that was Dragonflight. RP servers are no longer isolated even off war mode now in Midnight.
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BFA released in 2018.
You’ve had 8 years of being the Overdogs™
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