Well done, thx
Then Tauren and Trolls should also get the reward? They’ll be matched against wotf and stun resists too now.
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Serious pvpers back in the day were always going alliance on 3v3 arena tournament realms. I guess they liked the challenge 
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Hmm. I wonder why Blizzard nerfed WotF stripping it of imminity and putting on 45 sec CD with PvP trinket and reworked Hardiness making it 15% stun duration reduction instead of stun resistance chance in Wrath?
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I think they would concentrate on cross realm open world zones, merging 20+ Horde dominated severs with 3 Alliance dominated servers, hoping that it will keep wPvP alive for at least duration of Wrath. However this will only make Alliance move to PvE servers killing even crosserver wPvP and pushing them to make Warmode and complete servers merging - repeating retail mistakes.
So i get only 1 week to farm my pvp gear as horde and in this week alliance will just get a bonus ? Noice! At least make it permanent and stop testing all the time … season 1 is gonna be over and i am gonna be still farming half of my pvp gear !
Stop crying and go to ff14 if you don’t like Horde are avaiable to play PvP.
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Very good change, and I hope this change remains permanently.
Firstly, as I predicted, faction population distributions are actually near equal, despite the alliance overexagerating that its 20% alliance and 80% horde globally. This proves that alliance players simply do not participate in PvP, which created a great snowballing effect in regards to their limited PvP population getting gear.
Not only did they get FULLY honor geared within the first week or two, but after that they simply had no reason to queue for battlegrounds. This created a cascading effect in regards to the ever increasing battleground queues.
Secondly, the removal of premading BGs with larger than 5 man groups is an incredibly good change and should remain, regardless if the Wargame system stays or not. Without the wargame system almost every single BG I entered since the wargame was up against an alliance premade.
This greatly disincentivised a lot of horde from queueing battlegrounds, knowing full well that there is a 4/5 chance that you’re going to end up against a premade (which is what lowered the queue times on horde side). However, this also meant that the more skilled horde players simply stopped qing, which meant that even if you didn’t meet a premade, the majority of the time you end up losing.
These last few weeks since HvH was removed I’ve had the worst BG win/loss ratio in my entire 16 years of playing this game.
And lastly, at first I was against the idea of giving alliance a “lootbox” incentive for winning a battleground, but the more I think about it the more i support the idea.
Since the majority of the alliance population do not participate in PvP, this lootbox is going to incentivise a large number of players to actually participate in PvP, hopefully creating a lasting greater participation of alliance players which would remove the need for the Wargames to even exist.
Overall, well done Blizzard. I fully support the changes you are currently making and you are taking the best course of action. It feels like this is the first time in 10 years you actually cared about PvP to some extent, which makes me renew some hope in your company.
Keep up the good work.
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Excellent stuff Blizzard.
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Well done Blizzard, well done.
In this case it was because it led to the implementation of great changes that will only benefit the game and everyone who plays it
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In before the nublets are crying for even that to be removed, since they can also be stomped by 5 premades 
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It will be actually worse than premades because this will be in every single game
Great change. Alliance bonus is fair enough, they don’t really pvp anyways.
You seem to forget teams start at 0 team rating now. Back in the day I had a new team every week cus I was embarrassed if it got below 1500. Now im just hardstuck 1400 but cba.
Congratulations, your HORDE butt-licking reached an apex.
Horde got both, instant ques and premading ability. Which untill now belonged only to alliance. (and yes, it was not even advantage given to minority faction. It was PURE result of beeing horde so dominant).
While alliance lost everything they had, mentioned above. All they are supposed to get is bag full of sand?
FREE ALLIANCE TRANFERS TO HORDE FOR ANY ALLIANCE PLAYER!
People should just UNSUB. Because falling money out fo your pockets IS THE ONLY THING YOU LISTEN TO!
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i just think all alliance players should sue blizzard.
reason --> you are marketing tbc classic as an authentic experience…
its as far from authentic as it can be! and us law this could be a totally …working law suit.
you listen to all those people whining around this and that…
those people are the reason retail is crap as it is so why you are gonna listen to them AGAIN`?
i did not play wow the last 14 years so i had quite a neutral stance when i came back out of nostalgic reasons.
but you killed it for me. by listening to the same plebs again ;D
btw ff14 has a bigger player base than wow as of july. maybe think about that for a minute…what was your reaction to it? you went and harassed asmogold ;D
just shows how desperate you are… same faction bg’s just proove it even more. ban premades grps… so unorganized people can win honor? really now? its the same people who stand around afk in arathi when its 500 to 800. and you listen TO THEM???
so after you went ahead and ruined pve by applying 2.4 patch (you should fire the guy who had this idea)
now you go ahead and ruin pvp???
what part of the game is authentic?
on top of it you forgot??? about the HONOR RESET? and top teams are classic players who got full honor set on day one???
then you started arena after 2 weeks so the exact same people with full honor set could rofl stomp players who just got to 70…they now have FULL ARENA set with 50 to 70% WIN LOL
back in the day as gladiator team (and yes i was one of them) you had 90% win+
just shows how ez mode you made tbc. same as retail ;D and you just go ahead and flame me for what i am gonna say next. i dont care at all!
i am simply at a loss of words here. the obvious solution would have been to buff alliance racials?
but you actually did the opposite and gave horde fear ward on TOP of it??? are you all on steroids?
who calls those things at blizzard right now? get kaleiki back -> he had at least some insight ;D but like me he could probably not bear to watch this farce any longer.
and unlike others i dont think horde racials were far superior. thats just meta players. they could probably win the same way if they played alliance instead of horde. the reason they are on top is simply because they had full honor set and now that normal people get to max lvl they have full arena set already ;D has nothing to do with skill and theyr winning ratio actualy prooves my words to be the truth.
the very same people still believe the myth we did click 14 years ago and that we did not min max ;D
sorry but every wc 3 players used HOTKEYS because in a rts you actually had 250 apm unlike in wow… where u have 2 sec global cooldowns. so yeah maybe for some wc3 players wow was so SLOW THAT THEY HAD A LOT OF TIME TO CLICK at least for pve!
and for the min max part. ok we had no icey veins with bis gear…
WE ACTUALLY DID THE MATH! on 10 swings on 30 or on 100 whatever made more sense
well ok not in classic (there was only 1 set rank 14 one ;D ) but when ssc came out we actually started doing that.
and besides if you wiped 40 times on gruul pre nerf… you could just try out 40 sets of gear with outfitter and check dps…Oo
i mean lul. nuff said.
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What difference? You have premades in retail in form of RBG.
And you can avoid premades in random BGs in retail.
Considering how many times hardiness did not proc for me when it could (tested in duels, sometimes even 20 stuns without single proc) I would really welcome actual stun duration reduction, which works every time, lol.
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