Lake Wintergrasp : let’s talk please
Lake Wintergrasp : let’s talk please
The first time I stepped foot in that zone, I was totally excited about the prospect of a pvp zone, after all
many forums posts on live have voiced for such a place.
With everything the developers had learned about in the past such as sandlol, no reward leads to boycott as alliance demonstrated in AV, no mirror maps mostly spells disaster, exploiting and simular I thought to myself. “this could be it, the place where ill be spending alot of my time when it goes live”.
And then the reality of the zone met me face on. 25+ alliance come in zerging, a 6k scourge strike and 4 k judgement later, boom dead. Res at the gy, and lo and behold another 15 alliance are camping it, so boom insta death again.
So I said to myself, bah I prolly got unlucky and came in the battle late or so. no disspear, walk around the zone in ghost and make plans for the next battle.
I can now say I gave the zone a fair try ; a whole weekend summing up about 16+ hours of Wintergrasp
and I drew this conclusion :
- Horrible, horrible alliance vs horde ratio (which is how it actaully is on live as well) will kill this zone.
- Wall jumping is rampant, which defeats the whole idea behind the battle (AV 2.0)
- One would expect every match the map to switch factions, however i counted 15 /2 in favor of the alliance. Would have been 14/3, but server crashed and when it was back up it had switched to alliance.
- No points for the losing faction will always always be a bad idea and it doesn’t solve the afk issue, because when your alliance and you know you outnumber 20 to 1 anyway, you can just go ahead and afk. (in fact my only source of kills was from just that, alliance afk’rs)
- Betatesters are just as childish and selfish as the live players (next expansion open the pvp related zones/bg’s to alpha players if you want real feedback)
- IF the zone would be fixed (maybe it should be instanced after all) it would be the great and fun battle you wanted it to be.
- It looks amazing.
-Vehicles buggy, but thats to expect, bug reports done accordingly.
- While 85484856101671064845665567894 alliance have now all thier lvl 80 pvp blue set and epic assec already from the insane honor and arena points they get from winning, i have yet to win a battle as horde. So stop work for an evening once and come help out his poor feral so numbers are even.
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