Ok, it was a nice experiment that didn't work. Return the alliance players that faction changed to horde back to alliance and refund their money. Discontinue the service.
30 minute battleground queue says thanks.
We are not happy with warlocks in PvP. ~ GC
No kidding. ~ Warlocks
As soon as you give us back the former Horde players.
for execu... *cough* I mean their families miss them.
I crit Remove Curse and my Add-ons disappeared. ~ Moonsalt
I crit Slice and Dice and my cooking maxed out. ~ Grogmon
I crit hamstring and got bacon rope. Mmm bacon rope. ~ Sound
I think your battlegroup and my battlegroup need to exchange a few servers to even things up.
I crit Remove Curse and my Add-ons disappeared. ~ Moonsalt
I crit Slice and Dice and my cooking maxed out. ~ Grogmon
I crit hamstring and got bacon rope. Mmm bacon rope. ~ Sound
Crygil
Blizzard Poster
7. Re: SEND THEM BACK 03/08/2010 03:51:54 PM PST
Q u o t e: Ok, it was a nice experiment that didn't work. Return the alliance players that faction changed to horde back to alliance and refund their money. Discontinue the service.
30 minute battleground queue says thanks.
It seems your angst towards the Faction Transfer system is somewhat misplaced.
Long queue times are more accurately attributed to having simply too much in the way of choice for battlegrounds as a whole. This is an issue that we are going to be addressing in our upcoming content patch. Much like we have the random dungeon finder, we are adding in a random battleground option. We will also give this tool similar incentives, as that of it's counter part in PvE. We believe that this will help focus the population into a single pool of play instead of having players spread out across multiple queues. That's not it though. We have even more cool things coming for the BG system, Including new daily quests with better rewards and increased honor accumulation.
With all of those factors combined, we hope that will draw many players back in to the battlegrounds, which will bring queue times down for all of those involved.
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i actually am not looking forward to this as i hate wsg with a unholy passion. there is a reason i never queue for it. it almost always ends up being a 25min turtlefest. /yawn. thats not pvp thats boring.
Doubtful, there's very little incentive to do BG's these days, the only people running them are the people who are already running BGs to begin with.
Random heroics are better for character progression for casual PvE, and casual PvP may as well not even be a concept considering how you're still over-centralizing PvP around arenas, which isn't casual friendly at all.
The only reason to even queue for a battleground is if it's for fun, a holiday, or you need honor for epic gems. Outside of that, the honor changes are pointless since honor based gear is the worst when it comes to character progression. Hell, it's faster to get PvP gear doing PvE (Heroics/VoA) all day for crying out loud.
"Arms is like being a chainsaw running around. Prot is like being a castle that walks around punching people in the face with it's drawbridge."
~Morbo | Rivendare
Q u o t e: i actually am not looking forward to this as i hate wsg with a unholy passion. there is a reason i never queue for it. it almost always ends up being a 25min turtlefest. /yawn. thats not pvp thats boring.
Warsong's easily the worst battleground, but I don't see turtling as often as I see teams hanging out in the middle just hk-farming.
We believe that this will help focus the population into a single pool of play instead of having players spread out across multiple queues.
That's a great idea.
When, exactly, are you going to implement it so that it helps with the sub-80 BGs... you know, the XP-off ones that need to be funneled into "a single pool of play?"
Create some lore, have a human tribe join the horde and horde tribe join the alliance and just put people in BGs. No one really cares about lore when it gets in the way of actually playing the game.
1. Buff prot and healing spec dps to be level with all specs of dps. It's logical and amusing.
2. I've seen better maps in a game of Atari combat than in Arena.
3. As the Rock says - Know your Role
Long queue times are more accurately attributed to having simply too much in the way of choice for battlegrounds as a whole. .
I don't disagree with you completely there, but I think that is only a part of the problem. Try telling that to all the people in my battlegroup who are alliance and get nearly instant queues for BGs.
Not trying to sound snarky but with all due respect I think you are wrong if you don't think a big part of the problem is the current population balance.
Hey you, sass that hoopy Silanyu? There's a frood who really knows where her towel is!
Hate to say it, but crap idea. When I can get fully geared in Triumph badge gear and frost badge gear in a week instead (btw this is a giant mass of raids / heroics / etc..) instead of grinding the same battlegrounds over and over and over which take longer to do then the dungeons and heroics themselves somethings wrong. You either A: need to make it to where gear requires a combination of everything in order to get it (Triumph badges and honor for said gear) or you need to make it to the point where the games are much shorter. 25 Minutes for one battle ground and a crap amount of honor to go with it just really aren't that big of an incentive to play at all. Especially when you walk into 95% of the battlegrounds and they aren't even fun anymore due to extreme problems with pvp/pve constriction. My overall suggestion would be to do make it to where resilience is a built in feature on every piece of gear. Ever. And yes I am aware that they are talking about putting more honor into the kills / battlegrounds for wins, but they probably mean adding a whole 200 more honor per game. Not good enough blizzard. You've made the rest of your fans impatient by making gear so easy to get so you better do it again.
Q u o t e: Bet you don't complain when you steamroll wintergrasp every 2 hours
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What are you talking about. Horde has times 5 tenacity on our server regularly. We usually lose. Its close though which says something about the skill of horde players vs allies.
