I came back to wow classic SOM just because i though this time u fixed the ranking and u made it actually easier, but it is the opposite… Takes longer this time …
General thoughts of SOM:
Leveling was too slow. Should have been 1-3 days max since everyone done it so many times, and everyone hate it…
PVE is to taught if ppl dont get ranking gear…
Ranking: is my 3rd or 4th time ranking and i played the game again because i though u fixed ranking…now too many ppl ranking and is impossible to fast rank…
We DON’T wanna burn out again Blizz…
Solution-Fix NOT to lose Players AGAIN:
Blizzard Protect your players from overburning… Make ranking very fast and for much more ppl, or cap it at 3 - 4 hours max a day…then reward them gold or something…
If u don’t burn out ppl playing then they stay much longer in a game… Even me that i want to rank, if i finish ranking i can try till end of naxramas, BUT if u push me to burn out just to rank, then ill pass…
Double honor shows that they don’t understand their very own concept of the old pvp system. It’s hilarious.
Honor doesn’t matter, that’s why doubling it is useless and instead even making it harder for people to rank, simply because it makes more players willing to try and rank. So people go into no-life mode once again and it’s a mess for everyone. Most players don’t even know that “more honor” does not equal “faster ranking”.
Add to that the burnout of farming 60 dungeons in classic 2 years ago for BIS gear. People don’t want to do it again and look for the easiest way to gear up. That’s PvP (on paper).
People will quit for sure, its not possible to get higher rank than 10 without premades. I have done 14-20 hours honor grinds to get in bracket 11, its going to take 2 weeks to go from R9 -R10 and then hitting wall. Changes to pvp system were really lazy, they literally changed couple values and thats it.
There is many ways to stop people doing queue calls to make premades. When they press join queu add random delay so they dont get same join calls for the pool. Add cooldown to stop spamming joining or cancel qeueu. But they are lazy not going to happen.
Exactly like in Classic Vanilla. If you don’t premade, you will have hard time to achieve more than Rank 11 anyway. It’s not impossible to achieve Rank 14 without premade, but way harder.
This is complete rubbish. Levelling and questing is by far mine and many others favourite part of the game and is the main reason I prefer classic to retail. 40% bonus is already too much, anymore and it would ruin it, it has nearly ruined it already with entire zones being skipped. If you want easy mindless levelling go play retail, where you hit max level in 3 days and don’t give a crap in any way about your toon, and where everyone else has a max level of your class since they are so easy to level.
One of the best things about SoM is that loads and loads of people are doing the 5 man you encounter whilst levelling. And doing them properly too, not stupid, souless mage boost runs where someone plays the game for you. Do /who blackfathom deeps for example and there is regularly over 50 people in there. Any more of an EXP boost and people are just going to skip them because they will be bypassed so quickly.
Make it any quicker than it already is and this game is going to just be like an empty skeleton/shell with a pointless dead world.
I’m currently at 45 but if I was at a point already where I was raid logging I probably wouldn’t renew my sub.
I’ve never understood it when people say they hate levelling and questing since that is 90% of the game. Saying you hate questing is like saying you hate WoW.
Classic wow is to relax ppl. If you complain about people pushing brackets, or going to hard, just let them advance, you level or do whatever you do in your own pace and you’ll achieve your goals anyway. Classic is a Marathon, not a sprint. (*although SoM is available for a limited time)
I was ranking to 12 solo 17-18hours a day somewhere in phase 3.
I can say that ranking solo is only a thing with yourself. I could not stand farming randoms as premade and calling it something done in the end. I completed my solo grind and could not recommend for anybody to ever rank beyond 11 alone, unless it’s a low honorcap on your realm or som it actually making it easier (which I dont know as I dont play it)
Bracket 1 cap on our server was most of the time between 900k and 1.4million.
So let me get this straight OP, you hate levelling and want to skip it.
You also hate the gearing process and want to skip that… Why not just play retail and skip them both?
And for you people complaining about the popularity of honor farming: R14 gear is BiS for some classes until AQ40. It’s literally 2 whole phases ahead of what you can currently get. It’s BiS for half of the game.
Leveling and ranking is the journey. It is where you socialize and meet new players that are going to be your friends.
The reward (level 60 and full R14 gear) is just a supplement that you are not going to really enjoy for a while, because you are going to quit anyway or raid log after your R14 due to burnout of battlegrounds.
Enjoy your journey and enjoy the game like it is.
You’ll enjoy the result. If you can’t get R14, especially as a Rogue that can go full T0.5, it’s not that bad.