How to save WoW?

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Hello, i am playing this game for the last 6 months. It is one of the best games i have ever tried but it has big problems to be solved. I will list these problems in the topic, and hope it catches attention of someone from developer team or some people seeking for solutions to the same issues.

My big problem list

1- PHASING KILLS CASUAL PVE

*) some people play this game for mounts, transmogs, quests or achievements but phasing kills their fun. Imagine you try to kill rares or world bosses but you cannot because 20 other people queueing up at the location of rare you look.

  • solution: make low level rares and bosses killable after a certain number of hits. You one shot sha but you need to put 20 more basic attacks or skills to kill it.

2- M+ LEAVERS

  • people deplating your key in the first two minutes of a dungeon is not fun.

  • solution : punish m+ leavers with making them wait before the next search for the following 5 dungeons, and increase wait time if they repeat this behaviour. To remove penalty they need to complete following 5 dungeons. Penalty should apply for the first persom who leave. Add a vote system for canceling dungeon and if all agree on cancel dont punish people for leaving.

3- NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON FACTIONS NOT BALANCED

*) amount of horde and alliance are not close, and in most cases number of horde is higher than total number of alliance.

  • solution : dont let people open new horde if number of horde is too much at the moment they create character. Dont let people play both horde and alliance in the same server ( if it is possible ). Support faction change as company if the server is already unbalanced. Let people change their racial skills with new game update, something like injecting yourself with orc blood and now you can use orc racial skill instead of human racial skill.

4- BOTS EVERYWHERE

*) there are bots everywhere and it makes farming gold impossible. I remember times mining and herb brings 20K golds per hour, but it is impossible now because of bots. It affects normal player badly, if there is no point in farm why to bother playing mmo.

  • solution: ban bots, ban ip who match with bots, bring recaptcha system to decide if there is a person in front of computer or not.

5- WORST CUSTOMER SUPPORT

*) i have used ticket system 3 times and never replied back without being waited for 3 days. This is a paid game and when i have problems there is no one to answer.

  • solution: hire more people for customer support. You can hire abroad and make people work for you around 600$. Stop using AI to answer customer tickets.

6- NORMAL AND HEROIC RAIDS ARE POINTLESS

*) why someone should spend their times for 398 or 408 ilvl items if they can get better from M+. Especially after valor cap removed, no points in making heroic or normal raids.

  • solution: make heroic and normal raid items upgradable with valor, at the exact moment when valor cap is removed.

7- HONOR POINTS MEAN NOTHING

*) Honor points are useless out of some old transmogs and Mounts. Yes you can use them to upgrade pvp gear or to buy them but the Cost is low. If kill someone you get honors but if you are killed you dont loose and it makes honor point useless on the perspective of player.

  • solution: make people loose their honor point when they dead. Bring a leader board for honor points and make it visable in the game. Award people in top 100 honor points list with monthly gold or transmogs like things. Bring weekly honor top 100 list and award those people as well. Awards might be based on server. In addition to these awarding system, bring a new ranking for guild overall honor points. Make people able to donate some of honor points to their guilds, and new tabards buyable with donated honor points. So many things can be done with them but they are useless right now.

8- TOXIC PEOPLE IN GAME & FALSE REPORTS

  • ) you can say someone stupid without using the word ‘stupid’ and you never get chat banned in wow. You can false report someone and never penaltied for this

  • you know the solution

9- OUTWORLD PVP IS USELESS

*) there is no point to care about pvp on war mode. Only spark quests and gear obtained with sparks is not as good as conquests gear. Also sparks are hard to get, because no one cares about world pvp.

  • solution : Bring a place like a castle where people can farm specific items only inside it. People need to fight for it to hold the rights to enter the castle. This castle war repeated weekly and the guild which wins the war, have right to farm it for a week.

10- RATING IS USELESS AFTER 2400 ON M+

*) after you get your mount and become available for fully upgrading there is no point to progress further.

  • solution : bring new rewards for 2500, 2800, 3000 , 3200, 3500 ratings so people keep trying harder.

11- OLD DUNGEONS AND RAIDS ARE USELESS

*) old dungeons and raids are useless out of transmog and mount farm. We cannot run them properly.

  • solution : Add an option to run those raids on last patch’s difficulty. If this difficulty selected we can get items which are close to DF raid’s item level. Maybe put a limit for total number of weekly hard mode raid runs.

Sorry for the long post and thank you for reading, you can state your issues with wow as well, or argue my stated problems. There are a lot of small issues i want to state, but i dont have time for it. Also i feel like i wasted my time by stating these because i am 95 % sure these problems will not be addressed by blizzard.

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Did WoW ask for help or it’s another one of those “we definitely need to put that frog back in the water or it’ll suffocate!” posts?

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Ok, if you dont have any opinions pr recommendations you dont need to comment. Your comment is empty are you looking to increase your number of posts? Please increase your message count on other topics.

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  1. will never happen. Blizz stopped caring around original wotlk. In vanilla they were still concerned about faction balance
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Nothing blizz can do about that. You are making the groups and leavers is a risk you take if you invite randoms. If you do not like that risk then best solution is to play with premades that you trust.

Another thing that blizzard cannot do much about. Not balanced factions is a better problem to have than players not being able to play with their friends/what they like. Good thing is that with cross faction guilds that come now, players will be able to choose the faction they like and still raid.

They literally are doing this next patch.

Most of your other points I kind of agree with, just not those above.

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Some ok points but a really bad topic title.
WoW is good and wave at us.

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People have pointed out so many times while this will never work.

  1. Many people will agree to lower the key on purpose and try again. You want to punish entire groups agreeing to leave?

  2. Some people (probably like yourself) have no sense of their skill and ilvl capabilities and do way too high keys not knowing mechanics or being undergeared making the dungeon either be impossible or simply tedious to complete, giving people a major reason to leave.Nobody want to boost others for free

  3. 20 and above keys have no point other than timing it for score. So why stay if a dungeon isn’t timed? Start making sense.

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It works with pandaria’s world bosses, so I’m all for it. Should be for rares, world bosses, as well as enemies that are objectives of a “leave at low health” quests so you can actually complete them at any level D:

As people say… It won’t work as well as you think it would :') trust me, everyone wants to finish their dungeons. This isn’t the way. If anything it can punish friends resetting a key even. Unless it’s a queued system this won’t really work that well and they’re not putting mythic+ into such a system.

No. Hella no. Don’t punish players who want to play their cool tauren or blood elf just cause imbalance. Instead incentivise the creation of opposite faction characters, or even better, faction transfer discounts. That being said, there are way more alliance than you think. They’re just more casual.
And also, players didn’t like being unable to create characters from both factions, that’s why that restriction was removed in WRATH, over 10 years ago. In fact you can now mail between them and whatnot, let’s not devolve the game in the process.

Fun and challenge at their skill level :') and gear at the corresponding difficulty-ish. It’s upgradeable with 10.1 so you got your wish anyway. But I do agree that something needs a change when it comes to raids. Maybe more loot per boss? With mythic+ being quite accessible & dropping tons of gear raiding does become obsolete over time. That being said, not everyone is a hardcore key pusher and for many the item level is not the issue. It’s the amount of gear that drops.

No. Nobody likes this, there’s a reason why hardcore pvp games with loss of progress are so niche. (and their new wowkiller games are dead on release)

Edit: i forgot to add that I agree honor points need some more use, considering the fact that people still play past the point of being fully geared in conquest gear.

*i do want to add that I agree most of these are issues that need solving but this isn’t the way. Players are good at identifying problems but when you aren’t developing a game you don’t know that you actually have to please many people with that system, ensure burnout doesn’t happen, ensure that players play for a while, so it might be a bit harder to solve said issues than thinking for 15 minutes in your room.

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  1. Kind of agree - some kind of solution is needed
  2. `I have no skin in this game
  3. I fear your solution could lead to a decline in the player base. With racials my solution would be that you should be able to choose some from a drop down menu like you select pvp talents. They could be renamed for various races but have the same. effects. For example Draenei “Gift of the Nauru” for a Night Elf could be “Gift of Ellen” , for a Tauren “ Earthmother’s Blessing” and for a Forsaken “ Grave’s Embrace but all are just the same self heal.
  4. Agree
  5. Agree- it’s a disgrace and probably leads to cancelling subs.
  6. I like catch up currencies
  7. My solution is allow you to exchange honor for conquest at 10 to 1 (cap would apply if in place). That way casuals can acquire conquest gear over time.
  8. Agree
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My opinion on this topic is that it’s another howl about how to improve the game from a person who doesn’t even fully understands how the game works (under a “fancy” and loud title this time), which is also filled with “ideas” that’ve been around for years, yet for whatever reason you felt entitled to bring them all together once again. I’m too lazy to search for that meme, so let’s imagine that CJ’s screenshot with “Oh, shoot, here we go again” quote on it.

So, if you don’t like people not liking your way of thinking, you don’t need to create topics on forums where anyone can react to them.

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Wow is screaming for help dude, check yearly server populations, or check the number of online players in your friend list

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Thank you for this post. For nearly 20 years these issues have been plaguing WoW and even though these simple solutions were right in front of us, we just couldn’t see them until you pointed them out.

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  1. Convert company back to private.
  2. Fire all leaders/lead designers.
  3. Hire people who actually understand the RPG genre, who will design actual deep and intricate RPG systems, and not some sweaty speed run instances for their own friends from discord.
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This data has been long hidden from ordinary players. Either you are a cleaning specialist in Blizzard office or something doesn’t add up.

The same as it was last year or the year before, or before that. Old people go, new ones come. Cycle of game.

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wow how intelligent you are, i could not thing of that. One simple thing you need to know forum topics deleted automatically if 30 days pass after the last replied date. So your old content has been already lost, and yes it is my job to bring the old discussion back.

You can spend your time better, instead of pretending intelligent on game forums.

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I haven’t laughed so hard in weeks. You’ve made my night mate, thanks.

Also, Google “sarcasm”, please, cuz it’s what Annaconda’s comment is ALL about.

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Doesn’t need saving. Needs some fixing like all games ever and not all players will ever be happy.

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What are you comparing it to so it is the worst? Because there are games with even more bad one.

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OK, Mussolini. Denying people the right to play what they want will surely make the game better.

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Mjane there is nothing you can do about these issues.

yo will get millions of players on M+ that will just leave and its the same for raids and dungeons too.

2nd is that balance fraction wont work cause horde has more pve benefiting races then alliance and horde does has cool looking massive muscle races that certain armour will fit.

3rd of all your dead long post is a complete waste of time as these issues you call are normal and you either suck it up or leave the mmo…simple as that plus you snooze you lose on rare mobs.

also your an alliance who is baby crying cause horde has far more players then alliance as there boring like a granny on a scooter as the horde is like muscle guys on steriods.