Warmode needs to change

[Spindoggy-stonemaul]

Some of your solutions are good, and thanks for bringing up the issues because these conversations need to continue if we ever hope to have the problems addressed.

I liked these ones

@Icesil-stormrage

• 2. add a pop-up option to form 5 man groups in World PVP areas, much like the world bosses in the objective tab.
• 3. Bounty’s drop if you stay in a rested area for anymore then 3 minutes

@Icesil-stormrage

• 5. make it so five man groups are more likely to encounter other in-phase groups in Warmode.
• 6. static flying mounts can now be dismounted by Dragon-riding whirls. Also increased range of wing shredder.

I thought Alphons response summed up the primary issues which is at its core Sharding, which if fixed would be what I think we all expected Warmode to be.

I agree with what Alphon said here

@Alphôn-bleeding-hollow

Sorry, I just can’t agree on these. This is the appeal to World PvP. If you don’t like world buffs and consumables, then World PvP isn’t for you. It’s been like this since classic, it’s a big appeal because it’s different. There’s a sort of element to surprise to WPvP knowing that your enemy can do something that you might not be aware of.

The War Mode gear needs to stay because of the fact that some class tier sets are leagues better than other classes’ tier sets. The War Mode tier set is an amazing thing to fall back on for those who’s tier sets are trash in PvP. It also pairs nicely with the world buffs, which are beneficial as a solo player. I mostly do solo WPvP on my priest and survival hunter, and the War Mode gear and world buffs help me against the 4-5 man groups.

The main problem with War Mode is it’s sharding. You’ll either be put in a shard with no enemy faction, a shard with mostly enemy faction and no allies to help you, and rarely a shard that’s 50/50. There’s also the issue of, let’s say Im on an alt and I get ganked, I bring my main out and can’t find the player who ganked me on my alt because I’m on a different shard. There needs to be a sort of “universal” shard for all characters on your account in my opinion to prevent things like this from happening.

Of Alphons list of ideas/ solutions I agree with all of them and have been saying pretty much the exact same thing for a while now.

@Buchhojames-gurubashi

Honestly, if I had it my way, war mode would have never happened in the first place and I would still be doing world pvp quests in a pvp server with my horde brothers.

People have been asking for a PvP server lately and I know I for one will not be leveling a new char or paying to transfer to it (might consider leveling one), and I think plenty of others share that sentiment although I really think if Sharding was addressed Warmode would be a better solution than a PvP server but as it stands now a PvP server might actually be better than what we currently have for the obvious reason of MORE PEOPLE.

I think Warmode was a good and necessary solution implemented poorly and at a really bad time. Shame all the fools who chose to play on a PvP server then wanted out later were too foolish to know what they were getting themselves into but it is what is, it’s a game and if people aren’t having fun they leave and Blizz loses money I get it.

Bottom line there are enough people with Warmode on but we don’t get to kill each other because of sharding issues and the quality of life items you guys recommended are the solution that should have already been implemented that would make Warmode worthwhile.

Communication: Retail vs SoD

Doesn’t retail get the weekly if not more frequent WoW Hotfixes? It feels communication on SoD is better because it is on tight release schedule. And the experimental nature of the season means changes are way bigger an unexpected.

Tagging this fine gentleman here on the Community Council in the hopes he’ll gather some others to take up this case, may he no longer be ignored on his forum posts by the rest of his Council.