Comments on: Quiet! She May Hear You!

By: bob

bob — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:33:59 +0000

should be a system of i.e.
3 marks to winner every time

AB score on loser side:
1500+ = 2 marks
700+ = 1 mark
700- = 0 marks

By: Gun Lovin’ Dwarf Chick » Blog Archive » Get the Hell Out of my BG

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:29:05 +0000

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By: Tharlavia

Tharlavia — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:01:33 +0000

Honestly, I have to disagree with the its immoral to go for the loss—cheap and massively annoying–but I wouldn’t call it immoral. Here’s my situation—I hate PvP. I don’t play WoW for the PvP as there are better options for those so addicted; I play because I like the game and strategy of working your way up in the content.

Now that being said, there are some awfully nice pieces of gear–and I am being very specific such as the non-set Chain Belt for hunters or the Gavel for tankadins (+225 spell dmg/healing? 1.8 Speed? Swing it Baby!)–that are nearly unmatched until well into raiding.

So to be honest, I run BG’s to get the best gear I can and do my best to be competitive but getting whacked by some uber-geared PvP addict every 10 seconds makes it the equivalent of a novacaine free root-canal.

So if I have to PvP to get the gear I need to be a better player for instances and content, I’m going to do everything I can to wear down and annoy my opponent to make them punch out there monitor in utter frustration. I’ll trap and run, I’ll stalk you, I’ll even /dance in my BVD’s. And maybe some uber-geared PvP addict on my side can slip in and whack you 10 seconds

By: Angus

Angus — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:05:41 +0000

I’d like to see Blizzard make the following changes to the BG system.

Win a BG = 3 marks
Lose a BG = Zero marks

That way players would be motivated to do their best and get better rather than give up/intentionally lose. No rewards except honorable kills for the losing side.

It’s sickening how fast and easy it is for players to lose their way to epic gear.

By: 20 Fingers » Quiet! She May Hear You!

20 Fingers » Quiet! She May Hear You! — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:12:55 +0000

[...] Quiet! She May Hear You! …will I survive getting 70+marks when I have to sit through 20+min losses. … count the number of successful ABs I’ve been in on a couple [...]

By: Ithrandil

Ithrandil — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:20:14 +0000

I LOVE PvP, but I hate the mindless honor grind to get the gear that makes it fun to PvP in the 70 bracket. After gearing out a hunter and part of a holy pally set in the so “welfare” epics, then doing kara and ZA to replace them, I must say it woulda been easier just to try and go undergeared. Dungeonsets are easier to get when you think about just how MUCH rescourses you have to spend to get “welfare” epics, between honor, tokens, and most importantly time.

BGs are fun when you don’t need the gear. BGs Suck when you are undergeared and spend literally ALL DAY just trying to get tokens to get a single piece to bring you up to par. I honestly can’t blame the guy for a second for doing the FTL premade. Honestly, I’ve thought about it myself.

“welfare” my arse! BG epics are earned through long hours of mindless grinding, PvE gear is just luck on the drops

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:42:06 +0000

Here’s what you do: instead of /dancing, strip off all your armor and gear and fight with either the Big Fish, a dagger or a pitch fork. If asked why, you reply:

“Becuz me krew iz so gol’durned good we got’s ta fight nekkid to even the odds. Now have at ye, gurly man!!!”

It fulfills all the requirements:

- You lose the “old fashioned way” because, quite obviously, you suck so hard you think you can win naked. You big dummy. Luckily, stupidity isn’t against the TOS (yet).

- You lose with style - everyone will remember it, I guarantee it.

- You ARE trying to win - (but hey, you’re gonna die a LOT faster) - mission accomplished!

And if you DO somehow win, you have the mother of all screenshots and “ownz0r” bragging rights.

-Matt aka ImagoX

By: Djiss

Djiss — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:08:59 +0000

Sorry everyone, but no one lose a BG like I do.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l51/djiss/Sylvarah/WoWScrnShot_121706_195926.jpg

By: Kemonojin

Kemonojin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:47:06 +0000

To be clear, on the rare occasions I can tolerate pvp, I do fight. I’m no good at it, and my gear is utter crap, but I’ll wade in and go down swinging (err, shooting). I don’t LIKE to see 30 people standing in the cave going ‘hay guise loose ktnx’. It irritates me. I don’t want to screw up other people and it annoys me when they do it to me.

But, since the battlegrounds are no longer about fun, and more about just losing fast to get gear, I can see the other side as well. So a full premade shows up naked and dances. You take the objectives and kill them, you’re out fast with your win, they’re out fast with their loss. I’ve seen full groups ride right through each other, ignoring the enemy entirely.

I miss the old days of AV, when one game could take days.

By: Pinky

Pinky — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:33:23 +0000

They need a new marks system. Then the people who suck/quit the moment your 1 base behind wouldnt bother joining the games anyways. Since their ususally the reason you lose imo.