AV xp nerf in 3.2.2

[Multibocks]

True, I wouldnt mind that if they upped it to the previous xp rate.

[Starkey]

The Queue times are hideous, specially bg9 im waiting 20-40 mins for a game 51-59 bracket

[Gadzooks]

Honestly, Bliz is between a rock and a hard place with the issues in AV - if they make the penalties for AFK rougher, then it will be abused and honest players impacted. They put EXP into the gameplay, so of course the lazy and the cheaters glommed onto it, like they always do. So they cut the EXP, so it will be less attractive, but they did'nt ban wave all of the players who were doing it (yet...it could still happen...I hope...), they'll still do it, because it means they can get away with it. The new short duration for the inactive buff has killed the numbers of AVs being started, because you also need 100% players on both sides now, so the debuffed players sitting out has reduced AV to the real numbers of players who want it...

It's just a mess, huh?

I can see why they really don't know what to do. If they change anything, it generally impacts honest players negatively. The Bnet kiddies have officially destroyed AV.

I'm wondering if they will just go ahead and shut it down. All AV does now is generate controversy, and it's such an exploit target, they have to be constantly on guard to tweak it to combat them.

I think they should make some basic changes -

Make the starting cave eject you automatically if you have not left it after 2 minutes, and you cannot re-enter after leaving.

Populate it with more mobs and critters that are harmless if you are fighting, but if you get the debuff, they are elites and can kill you.

Start tracking people more closely, and if you have a pattern of getting the debuff, like more than 6 times in an hour, you get a 24 hour suspension and honor and marks removed for the day. Do it again, you get booted for 3 days. 3 times, you're gone, or just that character.

Put objectives into BGs, like, you have to kill one opposing member, or cap a tower, or carry a flag, to get honor. Or kill a boss. DO something, other than jump in place, or run from the cave to a graveyard and back.

Or, the best - and they will NEVER do this but it would rock, and be exploited - give players extra honor if you report a player, and they are debuffed and booted from the match.

[Tasty]

I quit WoW cause of this. 20 min queues and 50% less xp :/ I know it sounds weak quitting over one small thing but really I was looking for an out anyway. Its been fun

[Souca]

I quit WoW cause of this. 20 min queues and 50% less xp :/ I know it sounds weak quitting over one small thing but really I was looking for an out anyway. Its been fun

This about sums it up for me. All my accounts with more than a week or two left have been canceled, the others will cancel tomorrow after a renew. I'm giving them a chance to fix this, as AV was SO MUCH FUN! This is not a small thing.

A couple side effects that make things even worse is that you may get a game that starts even, but after 2 minutes all those AFK get booted and the game is back to 20 vs 40. This assumes you even get 40 to start. I've started in some games that were 26 vs 40 after a 40 minute queue with 7 players getting auto booted after two minutes. Of course Horde couldn't even kill Vann with 40 so they just went around HK farming until we lost to resources. 30 minutes for 3k xp and 70 honor. We can't kill Galv without tanks getting one shot.

To contrast, I played an 80 only game. Within 2 minutes Galv was dead and everyone had at least 180-200 honor. I think I got 1600 for only 7 HKs in the whole game. In the 79 bracket I have had 70+ HK games with all towers down that we won with no Drek kill that got me 900 honor. Titan put my leveling pace at 4 days.

Oh well, so far Aion is cool. Glad I have a reason to play it and won't miss out on what might be a good game, or at least a chance to try something new.

- Souca -

[Multibocks]

Make sure you put changes to AV as reason you quit.

[Fat Tire]

Make sure you put changes to AV as reason you quit.

Aye, it works if enough people cancel. They have no way of knowing if you are really going to go thru with not resubscribing so they take every cancellation seriously. They take it way more seriously than QQ on the forums.


There was proof of this 4-5 months ago I think it was a warlock issue and the uproar was huge/cancellations galore and it was reverted. if any of you are shareholders of ATVI they send out a quarterly news letter taking about all kinds of company mumbo-jumbo but something was kinda interesting in this last one. During this recession they said it was paramount that retention of subscribers remain very high. Food for thought ;p

[Souca]

Make sure you put changes to AV as reason you quit.

I did. I used the same reason on all of the cancel notices, as well as sending one ticket per account requesting the GM forward it to the appropriate department. I'm hoping there is something to make this fun again, but I just have a nasty taste in my mouth from getting all excited about leveling up new teams, even getting two new RaF accounts and now that idea is pretty much shot. My anger may not be rational, but I if it ain't fun, I'm not gonna force it.

- Souca -

[modhackmaster]

Quote:

• 0. Clarifications on Changes to Alterac Valley 09/22/2009 05:45:33 PM PDT

With the launch of patch 3.2.2 today there have been some changes to the Alterac Valley battleground and we wanted to clarify what exactly has been done.

Level 80 characters now have their own bracket and there is a separate bracket for characters that are levels 70 to 79. This change was originally planned for patch 3.3 but it was accidently applied to the current patch 3.2.2. As we had already intended to make this change so that players who are leveling play together and players who are at the level cap play together, we will be keeping the bracket setup this way, but the level of the bosses in the brackets below level 80 will be reduced to compensate.






Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...20331742&sid=1


"Accidently"??? LOL

It seems like Blizzard is going to fix the bosses' level later on, and hopefully, the XP nerf will be fixed as well. Or, i am just too optimistic.

[Tasty]

Make sure you put changes to AV as reason you quit.

I did. I also wrote down that wows an awesome game and I had fun playing it I tried to make it as qq free as possibly cause really it was just a good excuse to quit.

Now if you will excuse me, I have to go beat up Joker and his thugs. /equip batman suit