all you gotta do is horde vs horde
Article was well-written and detailed, but the solution of Merc mode is just so bad. Anyone who has been queueing as Alliance the past few weeks could easily attest that it isn't much better on the Ally side. While Ally queues are better, we're losing the majority of the battlegrounds. Generating between 500-700 honor on average while Horde who are winning a BG in an hour are getting even less than that, with the full farmable set costing more than 200,000, it's just terrible on both sides. Looking at 300-400+ hours for this. Honor rates need a serious permanent fix, easily 3-5x more than we're currently getting. For anyone skeptical, I'd encourage you to hit 70 and do BGs yourself to experience how bad it is. The inclusion of merc mode isn't going to do anything but open the eyes of the Horde to see how bad honor truly is, while also doing massive damage to other parts of the game as we've seen happen to retail after merc mode was added.
Would releasing the rep vendors brought in 2.4 help at all. They sold honor gear for catch up mechanics.
I laugh so !@#$ing hard any time the Horde whine about faction imbalance. Have fun dealing with the crap the Alliance has to deal with all the time because of this "social problem" you all exacerbate.
"Merc Mode"So basically horde vs horde like in retail, I see.Deal with it."You think you do but you don't"
People have hundreds of hours (and some even thousands) into their characters, not to mention in game contacts that would have to be abandoned. How $%^&ing stupid are you seriously?
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So much for #NoChanges
holy %^&*... are u @#$%ing serious? I don't want a #$%^ing Orc in my team... this isn't Warcraft anymore lolit's your fault if you keep on killing low level players that try to get to max. level and then would join BG queues It's your fault if you betray your faction just for a better racialdeal with it! I am not part of the "no changes" team but cross faction bgs? absolutely no! just offer free faction change from horde to alliance, that's it.and if players don't want to change their faction, then they have to accept the long queue times
*rolls horde to minmax just like everyone else**has massive queues because they lemminged along with all the other hordies**surprise Pikachu*
Horde was the underdog faction in real Vanilla. Rerolled alliance caused this problem and the streamers. Now you want to punish the real horde who rerolled Alliance with garbage racials, races, animations and a playerbase that sucks and is harder to raid with? Oh and better yet you want to play the victim?HAHAHHAHAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAAHAHA. Go ahead and cater to these sociopath streamers Blizzard. You will never see a cent from me ever again.
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Imagine actually not being a sociopath streamer. Instead of arguing for merc mode that would destroy an entire faction and ruin the game for half the playerbase, you could instead ask for WOTLK racials, which should have been put in to start with. If that wasn't enough you could then give them bonus honor (small like 10 percent to start with). If that didn't do it, cheaper respecs. Private servers had to offer free respecs and they still couldn't get 50/50 so this would be a last resort. Instead streamers suggest the stupidest thing possible. Merc mode. BTW I love how Rokman presents the "Community opinion" when it's a handful of PvP streamers who care about their content and who are heavily biased and all play one faction.The funny thing is their job is WoW. They have the freetime to reroll, while others don't. Put Merc mode in and you punish all pvp players who don't reroll and most of those people have a job that isn't playing WoW.In before my comment is censored by sociopaths who can't engage in debate and who instead want a propaganda platform.
False equivalencies everywhere, especially when rerolled alliance who now claim to be horde are who caused this in the first place. You want to offer Merc mode as a solution as if this is a equal solution to what we have in retail. It's not.In retail Arena racials are good on alliance. You are not being screwed when choosing Alliance in retail by getting a less powerful character. You are in Vanilla/TBC (more so in TBC). In TBC Horde racials are vastly superior outside a few mirrors on one class and they are also the vastly superior PVE faction. In pvp the gnome racial fails 1/3rd of the time vs rogues and druids due to resists. It's garbage. Again it only helps vs one specific mirror (like the human rogue racial) and it can still resist there to.Anyone who suggests merc mode should never, ever talk about empathy again. You want people to have a less powerful character, on a faction people will mass reroll from, so that they can have a worse experience in pve and pvp. Queues are the only GAME REASON to go Alliance at this time.You should be asking for WOTLK racials. Why aren't you? Because you would lose an edge. Dranei wouldn't be a total meme (would still suck), nelves would be decent and gnomes and humans would be viable outside a small number of mirrors. The idea that WOTLK racials is off the table and merc mode that happened much later is ok is flat out insane.
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