WM bonus idea

[Icefall-hellfire (Icefall)]

The current system where we get a fluctuating % resource bonus depending on how much we were outnumbered the previous week, clearly isn’t working. It only favours the Alliance when it’s quite clear that whilst we may be outnumbered overall, many shards will still end up with an Alliance bias, which seems a little unfair on the Horde.

Aside from that, the buff isn’t a true bonus, it borders between an incentive to turn WM on and compensation for your possible repeated visits to the Shadowlands. It’s part bonus, part hazard pay, part workplace compensation .

Instead of this could we perhaps see a more balanced system that is fair to both factions?

I’d like to see the return of a Wintergrasp-esque buff from the days of yor, where the faction who was outnumbered received a power/hp boost corresponding to how outnumbered they were. Have it fluctuating on a shard by shard basis, so the outnumbered faction, which ever it may be receives a boost.

We need less of this nonsense where a balanced shard starts a Battle for Nazjatar only for one side to overwhelm the other by tripling their ranks via the LFG tool or where Mechagon is so one sided that one faction gets wiped out, even inside of Rustbolt.

And to Blizz - for crap’s sake, fix the damned lag. Don’t allow situations where 100 players can be in a small area when your servers clearly can’t handle it. #smallindycompany

[Vaëyn-outland]

How do you fix region imbalance with your suggestion tho? It’s region imbalance that causes single faction overflow shards, very bad for wpvp. Shard balance seems generally ok, variable number of opponents is normal in wpvp. Both sides have access to lfg.

Excess player lag is caused by addons.

@Devinee-ragnaros

The explanation given is there is pretty much nothing that can be done, it is not the server that is under stress but networking before reaching blizzard.

Which is caused by addons. Those addons don’t even need to be installed by me I can be running the game without any addons but other people’s addons collecting data may cause flooding of the network before reaching the server. Which coupled with distance to server causes delays which are multiplicative.

So only option is to move closer to where server is hosted is the answer I was given pretty much.

So all people who have this issue there is nothing that can be done apparently.

[Archimitros-blackmoore (Archimitros)]

Dunno if the Wintergrasp-esque buff would work… it didn’t really work back then, either.

And I advocated for this myself at first, but after thinking more about it, I really don’t feel like it would solve anything.

Blizzard should focus heavily on incentivising PvP only rewards from a war mode bonus.

Give the overwhelmed faction a bonus in Honor for every activity instead of increased rewards. Give us additional Grandmaster’s Prize tokens, or Marks of Honor.

Something like that. As long as they push out rewards that are PvP focussed, you don’t run the risk of it escalating for PvE oriented players.