Yea I got it done, the other team did try to attack a few times but they were pretty bad, and I had a great team as well. It was smooth, and fairly simple match up. But I’m still not happy they make us to a PVP island just to say players are engaging in it, when it’s definitely not a fan favorite. Also not happy all rank 1s seemingly need to be acquired before further ranks. Still waiting for them to say something about this, although that’s probably a waiting game I don’t want to hold out for.
P.S. I found it easier to stomach 15k honor grind than a PVP island.
To be honest pvp islands are fine. Been owned in pvp confrontations, but if you have raw damage that most pve players have you can out gather the opposing team.
For example one game i played we were grave camped for 15 minutes till i broke off and just gathered resources.
We won that game cause the horde were busy killing my 2 allies who were worth pretty much 0 azerite while i gathered the 5k resources left for victory.
I find it humorous that it’s all Horde players complaining about the island requirement. I had an Alliance guildmate complain about losing 15 consecutive Epic BGs last night and told him to queue for IOC, where he would at least have a 50/50 chance of winning. The requirement for the Horde for this essence is infinitely easier than that for Alliance.
Funny. The hard part for me was the epic BG win. Took 6 tries. The PVP island was easy and I hate PVP. Rank 3 and up is the real problem. Ridiculous to gate a BIS PVE item behind PVP.
This exacty, or at least make the required achievments that have absurd requirments(looking at you 15k and 50k bg honor chieve) account bound. You still have to farm the marks of honor, but at least I wouldn’t be forced to spend the next two weeks straight in bgs trying to get just three chatacters thier Blood Essence to a reasonable rank.
So I am only commenting because the conversation moved to the island PvP direction.
On my main, I got it in my second attempt. It was not even close. We sent a tank to keep the dead occupied at their boat and out pve them with 2 dps because the tank was harassing them.
This only was capable of happening, however, because the poor team had no clue what was going on. It was clear they were in there for the essence and outmatched by people that have PvP together before.
At the start there was a mass rush. People wanted their essence. What happens when I log my mage that has not even unlocked the hear forge yet? A month, two, five months down the line when there is a huge ridiculous queue because players just are not doing the PvP Islands any more? What do we do for those people?
The PvP island requirement was poorly thought out. A normal, an epic, and a brawl and be done with it.
lately? no, not when i was doing it i had to queue for a few hrs and go through at least 6-10+ epic bgs (mostly pre finished ones) before i actually got it; I just wanna know if they’re gonna be easier to get with alts cause I’m not grinding blood of the enemy out again to r3
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