07-13-2006, 06:31 PM
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!
Read the official press release. If you kill an opposing player carrying the silithyst, you can steal it from them! I think that's pretty cool.
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.
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. I suspect that the zone-wide buffs will just be small gimmicks. The real reward will come from the honor and faction rewards, and of course that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you kill players of the opposing faction.
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. The faction imbalance solution is already in the game: instanced battlegrounds. The 1.12 patch will introduce cross-server battlegrounds that will greatly reduce queue times by removing most of the bottlenecks that have kept the queues so bad for so long. Plus, it'll open up the real possibility that low level battlegrounds will be up and running all the time, which will open up whole possibilities for ongoing low level battleground competition. I know on my server, people are already gearing up level 29 twinks in anticipation of the patch. Blizzard is implementing some outdoor world PvP contests, because thousands of people have demanded it for over a year, and some of the stuff mentioned in the press release sounds like a good start.