Warsong Gulch Exit Portal Removal

[Mainchick-sulfuras]

how bout the backdoor exploit on ally base in AV, can you fix that? just drag the terrain just a tab bit on the Z arrow and then ctr + s

[Brokenwind-grobbulus]

This appears to be a change. Does this go against the spirit of vanilla?

Do you imagine that changes did not occur during vanilla?

[Mathalt-emerald-dream (Mathalt)]

The exit portal issue was around in vanilla, but I doubt Blizzard was getting more than a handful of tickets a week about it.

Hah. Actually back then people were CALLING. They had to cut that helpline out because of the amount of squalling.

Now you can only call for Billing issues and everything else is done through their ticketing issues. Being a Blizzard helpdesk agent must’ve been bonkers in 2004-2007

[Harddruid-windseeker]

In approximately two hours, we will deploy a hotfix to all WoW Classic realms that disables the exit portals from Warsong Gulch. Thereafter, players who need to exit the battleground will have to use the other means of doing so: /AFK.

We’ve seen an increasing number of reports of these portals being used in unfair ways, and we feel that taking this step eliminates the potential for unfair gameplay while making no change to the intended, legitimate flow of the battleground.

As always, we really appreciate and value all of the player feedback that raised the issue. Thank you!

Can you please fix Alterac Valley horde start point and PUSH it back so it’s even with Alliance?

[Brokenwind-grobbulus]

In approximately two hours, we will deploy a hotfix to all WoW Classic realms that disables the exit portals from Warsong Gulch. Thereafter, players who need to exit the battleground will have to use the other means of doing so: /AFK.

We’ve seen an increasing number of reports of these portals being used in unfair ways, and we feel that taking this step eliminates the potential for unfair gameplay while making no change to the intended, legitimate flow of the battleground.

As always, we really appreciate and value all of the player feedback that raised the issue. Thank you!

Can you please fix Alterac Valley horde start point and PUSH it back so it’s even with Alliance?

Why is it that those with the most edgy character and guild names are typically the ones who harp on excuses as to why they cannot compete?

[Drunkpunk-bigglesworth]

Wasn’t that a TBC adjustment to the map? If so seems like it’ll happen, but we’ve got some phases to get through first.

[Evilgun-bloodsail-buccaneers]

I can feel your anger!

[Viorin-emerald-dream]

Why can’t you just leave the damn game alone? Private servers did Classic better than you guys and that’s NOT a compliment.

[Neaegan-kilrogg]

so #somechanges
guess you need to stop the wall jumps and terrain hacks as well, or are those ok just this one that the babies B^%^$ about needed to be fixed.

If you need to see what to fix they are thousands of you tubes …

#someChanges they will be adding flight next right

[Orecchiette-farstriders]

Wow the forum community will never, ever be satisfied.

[Damonkey-stalagg]

The portals in battlegrounds were essentially tech debt / random flavor once the mechanic to instantly leave a BG via the easily accessible /afk command was implemented. Since the portals in WSG in Classic today are almost exclusively used as an exploit / griefing tool, it completely makes sense to get rid of the portal mechanic. The only reason why this change didn’t happen in actual vanilla is because players didn’t exploit it en-masse like you see today, and it just wasn’t a priority to deal with then. There’s huge gray areas between creative use of player mechanics and exploits, and Blizzard has always had the final say on which side of the fence these types of issues fall on.

[Damagon-aerie-peak]

Sorry, not enough. Demand a fun experience:

Allies Unite and Boycott all BG PVP 2/18/2020 at 10:00AM

The horde on the forums have consistently denied map imbalace in AV. The horde slander allied people as stupid, bad players. The horde have created their own long queues by turtling, exploiting and making a generally unfun and unrewarding pvp sittuation for all allied PVPers, causing them to quit pvp all together. These are facts. All of this and the horde continue to shame and defend and claim there is no map imbalance, even though a balaced win rate would not change the rank progression on …

[Jingfei-moon-guard]

warts… and… all…

[Saif-benediction]

Graveyard camping

Remember when they addressed this in AV because the horde were being camped in their cave?

[Gevalia-mankrik]

/headexplodes!

/headasplodes

fixt.

[Ravens-sargeras (Ravens)]

what happened to #NoChanges? Blizzard’s promise of authentic vanilla experience…

People have been MC’d out of the portals since vanilla… it’s the real true vanilla experience.

Guess add this to the list of recent long list of Blizzard’s broken promises.

However if you’re willing to break promises and change the true vanilla experience… Rather than disable the portals, instead do one of these three:

1. change it so they can’t be used while in combat
2. simply add some 10 yard invisible perimeter around them that breaks any Mind Control or Fear.
3. make the portals clickable, so they must be clicked to work.

because /afk is a stupid solution, and hopefully just a temporary one. imo #3 is the best solution… clickable portals.

[Ronduwil-pagle]

There’s a difference between abusing MC to instakill someone and abusing it to flag them as a deserter and lock them out of content. The first instance is what he was referring to when he said we would have to accept it.

[Ronduwil-pagle]

Dev Watercooler: World of Warcraft Classic - WoW

Additional improvements will include modern anti-cheat/botting detection, customer service and Battle.net integration, and similar conveniences that do not affect the core gameplay experience.

[Ronduwil-pagle]

@Dragtuslivz-alexstrasza

Not talking smack here. Seriously explain how normal PVP realm stuff is less harassment than this.

Using MC to kill a player in a BG is perfectly fine. Using it to give them a deserter debuff and lock them out of all BGs for 15 minutes is not. If you don’t understand the difference, then I suggest you seek therapy for your condition.

[Drumstep-daggerspine (Drumstep)]

Ive never seen or even heard of a wall jump, but Ive been MC’d by a wuss priest and walked out the portal. The bigger fix, and a bigger man, would say "fix the map in AV so you hoard cant start 1/4 the way up the map, and fix the back door “cheat hole” you guys love to climb in every game. EVERY GAME. You think you’re good, but youre just cheating… Blizz wont fix that though… As your ques get longer and longer just know its because you cheat. gg…

If you’ve never see or heard of it then you probably don’t play more than 1 wsg game a day… here you go buddy