I think the change is amazing.Even if it rewards Bages for allies once in a while.TBH the gear you can get is pretty crappy imo.
Removed
the alliance have been winning Alterac Valley since the event started, ALL OF THE ALTERAC VALLEY, they are WAY OVERGEARED compared to horde and hey win EVERY SINGLE GAME, also they do it with a lame turtling strat making it a 289045 hours game, they get the marks, tons of honor and the UNFAIR price box, the horde get something destroyed at home and ofc they need to repair the gear =)nice thing, take the geared faction and give them rewards!no one cares if we fight hordes or alliances, in fact PLEASE WE NEED TO PLAY HORDE VS HORDE, there is no other way to get geared, u can win warsong, eye or arathi, u will NEVER WIN a 40 MEGA GEARED vs 40 naked game.
Has there always been such insane faction tribalism like this? I seem to remember nearly every player having characters on both factions. If it's always been like this, I feel very lucky to have not noticed it before. It's incredibly stupid.
is this some out of season april fools joke?
What on earth are you talking about. Every fix for classic has been to the benefit of the horde. Persecution complex much?
I cannot wait to steamroll the PVE alliance andies who will now join BGs for "easy badges"... that will be so much fun
After leveling 45 to 70 horde side from tbc classic launch, and then leveling 1-63 on an alliance re-roll due to long bg wait times horde side.... And now finding out instant queues are gone for alliance - I'm burnt out. I've cancelled my sub. Haven't even stepped foot in arena season 1. Arena is the only reason I came back to this game.Merc mode and award bags weren't in tbc original. They shouldn't be in classic. All they had to do was a faction change service, or a free boost offer alliance side on unbalanced servers.
Thanks for making it even more difficult to win a BG as Alliance.
OMG Alterac Valley on bonus... for real? omg.....
To all the people saying this is going to negatively impact the economy, this only affects the minority faction that win the battleground, before they were doing this they were just doing PVE content and avoiding PVP content like the plague. Someone spending 25 minutes in a BG to receive a piece of khorium ore and some bread isn't going to affect the economy.
Those are some pretty terrible rewards that you might get from winning a BG, not just queueing. What a joke.
I am starting to be fed up with this change mentality. Blizz should make only absolutely necessary changes. If horde players want to exchange shorter queue times for battling against own faction fine. But that's it. Don't make stupid changes like arena teams starting at 0. Or these silly boxes. And leave premades be. It's amazingly boring and annoying to farm marks without premades. It would take probably hundreds of hours to farm pvp honor gear as well. I still don't have everything I need because I can't spend whole weekends locked up in bgs. God, I miss MoP, the pinnacle of arena.