World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

Animosity · Nov 20, 2023

Realms Expectations for Season of Discovery

Hey everyone. I’m Fwoibles, also known as Tom. I’m a Senior Producer on the World of Warcraft Server and Live Ops team, and I would like to share what we’re preparing for the realms with the upcoming launch of Season of Discovery. You may have noticed with the launch of Classic Hardcore that...

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TLDR - PvP servers will have faction balance. Only starting with a few number of servers after they fumbled the classic launch.

Zindan · Nov 20, 2023

So will Cata remove the ammo mechanic?

Sylas · Nov 20, 2023

Animosity said:
Realms Expectations for Season of Discovery

Hey everyone. I’m Fwoibles, also known as Tom. I’m a Senior Producer on the World of Warcraft Server and Live Ops team, and I would like to share what we’re preparing for the realms with the upcoming launch of Season of Discovery. You may have noticed with the launch of Classic Hardcore that...

eu.forums.blizzard.com

TLDR - PvP servers will have faction balance. Only starting with a few number of servers after they fumbled the classic launch.

proper TLDR:
omg they *might* actually try something to balance factions on PVP servers? but only if factions become super imbalanced, and only if nobody complains about not being able to make the character they want on that server.

Also they are begging everyone that doesn't want to pvp not to roll on pvp servers, lol.

Props to them for finally doing something or at least considering doing something but it probably would have had a much better impact if you hadn't announced abilities that completely trivialize horde and make alliance more OP off the rip.

Jasker · Nov 21, 2023

So they just posted about how racials like Blood Fury are still in and will not be shared or balanced. They did hint that weapon skill alleviations are likely to occur.

tldr Orcs still zugzug race for horde wars

Masakari · Nov 21, 2023

Jasker said:
So they just posted about how racials like Blood Fury are still in and will not be shared or balanced. They did hint that weapon skill alleviations are likely to occur.

tldr Orcs still zugzug race for horde wars

Orc War zugzug is going to be on steroids with Blood Fury stacking lol.

Too bad they don't get bladestorm, maybe later.

Ossoi · Nov 21, 2023

Sylas said:
Are they ways to fix it? sure yeah. lock character creation on servers with imbalances. Separate queues for factions, etc. but they haven't implemented that shit for 20 fucking years and they sure as fuck aren't going to start now,

Animosity said:
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TLDR - PvP servers will have faction balance. Only starting with a few number of servers after they fumbled the classic launch.

loooooooooool

Chris · Nov 21, 2023

They should fix it with layering.

Layer 1 has equal Horde and Alliance. Layer 2 is Horde only. Add layers as needed for either category.

Animosity · Nov 21, 2023

Chris said:
They should fix it with layering.

Layer 1 has equal Horde and Alliance. Layer 2 is Horde only. Add layers as needed for either category.

That has nothing to do with faction imbalances. But the servers will also have layering.

Chris · Nov 21, 2023

Animosity said:
That has nothing to do with faction imbalances.

Other than fixing it?

Burren · Nov 21, 2023

Would be curious to see if we end up with a Horde and an Alliance FoH guild (not necessarily in name, but w/e). I have half my friends wanting each side.

Pogi.G · Nov 21, 2023

Chimney said:
Got too much grass and ass to touch to poopsock an MMO atm and I don't do casual very well.

Start another pandemic though and we might be in business.

2024 election is right around the corner. Another pandemic is sitting at 92% probability to keep Trump from office.

Animosity · Nov 21, 2023

Chris said:
Other than fixing it?

Layering doesnt fix faction imbalance moron.

Chris · Nov 21, 2023

Animosity said:
Layering doesnt fix faction imbalance moron.

Perhaps it's just me being a PvP server player and assuming part of the faction balance problem is World PvP being one sided.

I guess PvE homosexuals just do it to have larger guild recruitment pools.

Animosity · Nov 21, 2023

Chris said:
Perhaps it's just me being a PvP server player and assuming part of the faction balance problem is World PvP being one sided.

I guess PvE homosexuals just do it to have larger guild recruitment pools.

All layering does is create temporary zones to stop overcrowding so 10000 people arent trying to kill the same boars. It doesnt stop 90% of people choosing one faction on a server.

Chris · Nov 21, 2023

Animosity said:
All layering does is create temporary zones to stop overcrowding so 10000 people arent trying to kill the same boars. It doesnt stop 90% of people choosing one faction on a server.

I'm saying that if there are 100 alliance players and 1000 horde players, putting 100 alliance and 100 horde in layer 1 then the rest of the horde in layer 2-5 - at least alliance players won't quit the server from being overwhelmed in world PvP.

I admit it won't solve PvE guild recruitment.

Cad · Nov 21, 2023

Chris said:
I'm saying that if there are 100 alliance players and 1000 horde players, putting 100 alliance and 100 horde in layer 1 then the rest of the horde in layer 2-5 - at least alliance players won't quit the server from being overwhelmed in world PvP.

I admit it won't solve PvE guild recruitment.

Also doesn't solve auction house being dead or competition for open-world resources being completely fucked on the smaller side also.

My understanding is that herb and mine nodes only appear once regardless of how many layers, correct?

Chris · Nov 21, 2023

Cad said:
Also doesn't solve auction house being dead or competition for open-world resources being completely fucked on the smaller side also.

My understanding is that herb and mine nodes only appear once regardless of how many layers, correct?

Really? That's fucked up.

AH is easy, just have one AH for both factions. Why not?

Uber Uberest · Nov 21, 2023

Cad said:
Also doesn't solve auction house being dead or competition for open-world resources being completely fucked on the smaller side also.

My understanding is that herb and mine nodes only appear once regardless of how many layers, correct?

Incorrect, spawn times and spawns are different across all layers. You can keep timers for black lotus on different layers.

TJT · Nov 21, 2023

Chris said:
Really? That's fucked up.

AH is easy, just have one AH for both factions. Why not?

Turtle Wow does this. All auction houses are just one big auction house. You can also guild, group, and raid with any faction. You can still PVP out in the open if you want to and you just cant go into the opposing faction towns.

It really makes the game much better IMO.

Animosity · Nov 21, 2023

TJT said:
Turtle Wow does this. All auction houses are just one big auction house. You can also guild, group, and raid with any faction. You can still PVP out in the open if you want to and you just cant go into the opposing faction towns.

It really makes the game much better IMO.

So its like retail

World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

Your faction and server type?

Horde - PVP

Horde - PVE

Alliance - PVP

Alliance - PVE

RPPVP or RPPVE

Wherever the most amount of <Fires of Heaven> decide.

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