Quote:Worse yet, I don't see what's stopping both sides from getting the Silithus buff, if as the article says, the buff is received after a certain amount of dust is turned in - both sides can turn it in independently of each other, and there is absolutely no incentive for killing other faction!

Quote:Outnumbered (on most servers anyway) Horde is unlikely to win many of these battles, which in turn gives the Alliance the buffs, making them stronger, and the Horde even less likely to win.

Quote:Worse yet, I don't see what's stopping both sides from getting the Silithus buff, if as the article says, the buff is received after a certain amount of dust is turned in - both sides can turn it in independently of each other, and there is absolutely no incentive for killing other faction!

Quote:To the extent I am not underwhelmed, I am annoyed that it doesn't seem like any effort is being made to address faction imbalances.

Quote:I know on my server, people are already gearing up level 29 twinks in anticipation of the patch.

Quote:I read somewhere that Blizzard is going to be introducing a small amount experience for BG kills, to thwart twinks.

Now, I don't remember where I read this. It could easily have been a fabrication by some hopeful lowbie who was getting owned in BGs. If no one else has heard of this, then it probably was.

Quote:I read that somewhere as well, and a "Blue" debunked it.

Then again, this could have been some fabrication my mind came up with.

Quote:I read somewhere that Blizzard is going to be introducing a small amount experience for BG kills, to thwart twinks.

Now, I don't remember where I read this. It could easily have been a fabrication by some hopeful lowbie who was getting owned in BGs. If no one else has heard of this, then it probably was.

Quote:I'm always more willing to give the benefit of the doubt, when all we have to go on is a small press release. We don't know enough details.

As far as faction imbalances go, that will always be a problem with world PvP, which is why I've never called for it as strenuously as other people. If you want to complain to Blizzard about not putting in some system that protects the smaller faction, I challenge you to come up with a good world PvP solution that won't get ripped apart by fellow Lurkers much less the WoW community at large.

Quote:That would be horrible. On the one side, twinks are an anathema to people leveling up their characters. I see that point, and some kind of honor or gear matching system would be nice, but won't be implemented until at least the expansion. However, seen from the other side, twink vs twink matches are great games. The benefit of twinks is that everyone knows what the best gear and enchantments are for that level and those things are easily obtainable by everyone whether you are a hardcore raider or not. So, everyone in a twink vs twink game goes in on a level playing field and the only thing deciding whether you win or lose is your team's collective skill and coordination. I like that.

Quote: The easy answer is to reduce the amount of spice needed, or increase the guards, depending on the number of players active in the area. I'm not sure that's fun though.

Quote:Perhaps in addition to battling players of other faction, we might have to do some Worm fighting as well.

Quote:That IGN picture looks patched together, and the worm in the background looks like Ouru from AQ40. Since neither the press release nor article mentioned anything about worms in Silithus, it seems more likely that the picture was merely an artist's interpretation of the fact that this silithyst stuff is obviously a reference to Dune. I could be wrong, though, and you never know, there could be some giant worm annimation thing that happens when you turn in enough silithyst. Until we learn more, though, I'm running under the assumption that the pic was photoshopped together by IGN and is not a screenshot coming from Blizzard.