Seems like the ganking outside is calming down a LITTLE bit. Horde are either starting to spread out a little more, or enough people got to the low level rewards they wanted and stopped going out for PVP.
I will say that I have things a hell of a lot easier than most since my main is a druid and I can stealth everywhere. It takes a long time to stealth all the way from a flight path into BRD, for example, but a couple of times now I've gotten there in half the time as other people in my group who had epic mounts. Slow and invisible is faster than epic mount + corpse hopping.
That's brought up a new thing though - it takes forever to stealth across entire zones to get where I'm going. So I made a second account and created an alt. Now I play two characters at the same time - not 'multiboxing', but running two copies of the game and two accounts at the same time. My main screen is me slowly crawling my stealthed druid across whatever zone I'm travelling, and the other screen is a new level 8 alt that I can level while I wait :lol:
Pippina agreed with the calm, 5 am sessions have completely stabilized. There’s still those 2-3 people that will jump me per 3-4 hour session, but it’s almost always solos now and I just finished Gnomish Death Ray so GLHF.
I have been non stop leveling alts for all of phase 2 anxiously awaiting the release of BGs and BWL next. Havent done any Tarren Mill/Southsore battles though cause i work night shift and my server is low pop Horde high pop Alliance (Atiesh). Unless you go to TM during prime time - forget about getting honor, you’re basically just fodder for allies
Faerlina is fucking ridiculous.
Can confirm Faerlina is insane. Large scale battles don't seem to ever end with even low level toons joining the fight.
On Finkle-FR it's the same... Horde dominate all zone.
Was fun at first but I'm not 60 and cannot xp in any zone I try except verry late at night.
I mean In 2 hours I kill 4 mob... im level 57 priest. Im just camped by every Gank squad of 3 to 5 people minimum (they kill me at least twice each time).
So I just take a break and let all my character take some rest XP until the release of BG..
My second alt reached level 50 when P2 started. It was fine until a few days ago, when a couple alliance guilds thought transfering to our server is a great idea.
It's now alliance controlled and leveling is absolutely impossible.
On the other hand, I made plenty of honor on my main. Most alliance players who transferred are terrible in PvP (and only win by outnumbering the horde 10:1).
Once you are at 50+ the death squads appear. Impossible to level unless you play very peculiar hours. This is what I wanted and I'm on the side being dominated. I joined a PvP server because this is the way it should be, would never join a PvP server then whine that I get endlessly killed. Would do the same to Horde if I got the chance. I level alts while waiting for Battlegrounds, hopefully it will die down a bit once they are out.
Gandling EU
Horde dominates the server and it’s pretty shit. You have to go all over the place to look for pvp. Sometimes you will find a proper alliance group and have an awesome fair fight, but most zones of interest have multiple horde death squads (5-10 people) just at it.
I can understand alliance not wanting to “come out and play” at this point. Me and my guild never kill leveling grays, but because of the honor draught everything that’s 51+ is fair game i’m afraid.
I'm mostly logging on to raid and to run the occasional dungeon during this phase. Once BGs are out I'll probably do some quests and continue farming for my epic mount. Until then it makes much of the world unplayable.
Once you are at 50+ the death squads appear. Impossible to level unless you play very peculiar hours. This is what I wanted and I'm on the side being dominated. I joined a PvP server because this is the way it should be, would never join a PvP server then whine that I get endlessly killed. Would do the same to Horde if I got the chance. I level alts while waiting for Battlegrounds, hopefully it will die down a bit once they are out.
The current state has nothing to do with how retail vanilla was. Granted, I played on fairly small server during vanilla, which was my goal for classic as well. Unfortunately, there are no small servers, only mega servers and big servers.
This has nothing to do with PvP either. It's PvPs (Player versus Players). Level 60 vs level 51 is not a fair fight.
But if this is the state of the game, I'm going to stop playing. Or transfer to a PvE realm (if possible).
Once you are at 50+ the death squads appear. Impossible to level unless you play very peculiar hours. This is what I wanted and I'm on the side being dominated. I joined a PvP server because this is the way it should be, would never join a PvP server then whine that I get endlessly killed. Would do the same to Horde if I got the chance. I level alts while waiting for Battlegrounds, hopefully it will die down a bit once they are out.
The current state has nothing to do with how retail vanilla was. Granted, I played on fairly small server during vanilla, which was my goal for classic as well. Unfortunately, there are no small servers, only mega servers and big servers.
This has nothing to do with PvP either. It's PvPs (Player versus Players). Level 60 vs level 51 is not a fair fight.
But if this is the state of the game, I'm going to stop playing. Or transfer to a PvE realm (if possible).
Before Battlegrounds were implemented in Vanilla it was slaughterfest too (At least on Ahn'Qiraj). People were not as good as they are today but seing other faction was a new experience and killing them every chance you could was normal. I don't know how it is for US but EU have smaller servers. You will never be "alone" out in the world but if you join a PvP server and the faction that dominates, you can almost certainly quest and level without the fear of other faction ganking you. If there is a closer balance between factions, or you are on the end being dominated, it's a whole different story
One level in one week. 4 group disband last night because we couldn't come close to BRD or LBRS.
I stoped rez when 4 horde player camp my ass 3 time in a row without leaving...
I heard SWTOR is free, gonna try it out before the BG release :)
If there is a closer balance between factions, or you are on the end being dominated, it's a whole different story
We used to have 50:50 balance. It was great. I thoroughly enjoyed Phase 2. Then the alliance refugees came. Now it's 70:30. Our raiders only login for raid. Our auction house is getting emptier. Alliance is so desperate, they never leave Org.
Blizzard has absolutely ruined the server and the game for at least 1k players or more.
I've rerolled from a PvP server to a PvE server.
Don't fancy spending my limited free time not actually able to play the game
Apparently the mechanical yeti from that winterspring quest is considered a civilian and causes dishonor when killed. And the yeti has 10 charges, and you can keep going back to winterspring for more. And it's only useable in the cities in Tanaris, Ungoro, and Winterspring... If one was to roll out a yeti during an AOE blast from the opposing faction, you could reward them with a dishonor kill :lol:
I also found this image on Reddit that appears to suggest that target dummies are civilian targets as well...
Would be a shame if somebody tested this while getting ganked. Particularly during some AOE fireworks. :lol:
edit: apparently this method made it to Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/world-warcraft-wow-classic-reddit-yeti-dishonorable-kills-1475321
Looks like we got some tools to fight back against faction imbalances :biggrin: