I’m sure no one really cares about some random dude’s post on the internet for “why I’m quitting”, I’m sure there are tons of them and this post may just be lost in that vast sea.
But I’m still making this post because I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who share the same sentiment.
When WoW Classic TBC was announced I was excited for one thing, and that was Battlegrounds. I’m not a hardcore pvper by any means, but I’ve always enjoyed the playstyle of battlegrounds for pvp compared to other mmos. I was really looking forward to getting home from work, relaxing at home, and playing some battlegrounds. Queue in for some matches, have fun with no worries, log off, and repeat.
I leveled up to 70, unlocked the keys to dungeons, grinded dungeon rep to revered (instead of honored which is another matter), did attunements, etc… also for the precedent of getting set up to do some pvp.
I queue in for a few nights play some battlegrounds, have some fun, and get anywhere from 40-200 honor per BG. Sound about right I thought, that’s how much you’d get per BG back when I played from Wrath to WoD. I noticed they increased the cap on honor from about 4,000 to something ridiculous like 70,000 (may not be exact), which was weird I thought but no matter. I finally decide it’s time to get some PvP gear to get some resilience. I go to the vendor and to my surprise…each piece is 10k-17k honor a pop. Only exception I think was gloves at almost 7k.
Remember when I said back in the day the honor reward was the same as today at 40-200 per BG? So that hasn’t changed. But back then honor gear would cost about 1k-2.5k. So the amount of honor received by playing the game stayed the same, but the cost to buy the gear pieces rose by 10x the amount.
I was seeing what others were saying online. Only to find that people were calculating 500+ hours of straight pvp to get a full set of honor gear. Now, I don’t mind putting some time into the game. I’m not looking for instant gratification. 50+ hours would be a normal amount of time. But 500+? That is ridiculous. That takes a grindy game to a whole other level. At that point I’d rather find something else. I have a life outside of WoW, sorry Blizzard but I just can’t spend 500+ hours to grind a SINGLE gear set. Imagine if you wanted a gear set for any offspecs or alt characters. Good luck with that.
The one thing I wanted to do in the game, and you put up this 500+ hour mountain in front of your players. Why? I get blizzard is trying to keep people grinding as much as a KMMO but doing stuff like increasing rep requirements from honored to revered, etc… but increasing the time to obtain pvp gear by x10? At a certain point, people are just not going to even bother any more. That’s where I’m at. I’m just not going to even bother anymore.
Could I just do arenas? I suppose, but I only have 1 irl friend whose playing classic TBC with me that’s I’d want to do arenas with, and even they may be scarce to find online at times. I just wanted to pop into BGs for casual fun. Now, I technically still can, sure, but I’d at least like to have a full pvp set while doing so for decent amount of time.
I patiently waited to see Phase 2 drop. I was told the gear would be discounted by some estimates of 20%…oh ok so instead of a 10x grind it’s now only 8x the grind…right. I was hoping for a more significant fix. I logged in after the patch, did a BG to see if honor gains were increased, no. Went to the vendors to see any price reductions, I can’t even tell if the they were and if so it’s hardly even noticeable since it costs so much.
As petty or dumb as some people think this post may be, I don’t care.
I subbed to play classic TBC strictly for Battlegrounds, and what I wanted to do was trashed by blizzard. So I now no longer have that reason to play. Simple as that.