I am fed up. Since 4.0.1 Wintergrasp, which used to be my favorite activity in WoW -- the reason I logged on -- has now become my biggest disappointment. I am sick of spending twenty minutes chatting with Arcanist Braedin and then not getting in. Or getting in for seven minutes and not being able to gain rank. I'm sure Braedin and Magister Surdiel are very nice people, but no one wants to waste their life with them.
For the most recent battle on Stormrage there were five, count them, five Alliance in the zone. A bit pretentious to make it a raid, don't you think? This is Blizzard's idea of "open-world PvP...designed to engage players across the whole region in intense PvP warfare on an unprecedented scale"? This is a joke.
When access to Wintergrasp was unrestricted, it was fun. It was so much fun that it brought all of Northrend to its knees. Rather than improving the infrastructure, the response was to limit participation. How epic! Bring back the flavor of the old battles between Southshore and Tarren Mill. The current state of Wintergrasp does not bode well for Tol Barad. Whatever it is, it is not world PvP when players are excluded.
The concept of rank is also broken. Why force people to look for NPC's to kill when they can't find enough players? And fix the cannons while you're at it. (The cannons may have been fixed in 4.0.3 but I would not exactly know.)
I can't say I miss tenacity. Tenacity was at best a bandaid that didn't work. And I would much rather take my 0.76 honor for offing Lazypeon than a victory any day.
I'm so upset I think I'll get on Baguette (since she probably has more street cred than my other characters) and stick this on the Blizzard forums. Not that it will do much good.
Edit: You'd think I'd know the server name by now.
Edit 2: In the current battle (for which I did not get in) there are all of three Alliance in the zone.
For the most recent battle on Stormrage there were five, count them, five Alliance in the zone. A bit pretentious to make it a raid, don't you think? This is Blizzard's idea of "open-world PvP...designed to engage players across the whole region in intense PvP warfare on an unprecedented scale"? This is a joke.
When access to Wintergrasp was unrestricted, it was fun. It was so much fun that it brought all of Northrend to its knees. Rather than improving the infrastructure, the response was to limit participation. How epic! Bring back the flavor of the old battles between Southshore and Tarren Mill. The current state of Wintergrasp does not bode well for Tol Barad. Whatever it is, it is not world PvP when players are excluded.
The concept of rank is also broken. Why force people to look for NPC's to kill when they can't find enough players? And fix the cannons while you're at it. (The cannons may have been fixed in 4.0.3 but I would not exactly know.)
I can't say I miss tenacity. Tenacity was at best a bandaid that didn't work. And I would much rather take my 0.76 honor for offing Lazypeon than a victory any day.
I'm so upset I think I'll get on Baguette (since she probably has more street cred than my other characters) and stick this on the Blizzard forums. Not that it will do much good.
Edit: You'd think I'd know the server name by now.
Edit 2: In the current battle (for which I did not get in) there are all of three Alliance in the zone.
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