tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post3075007015084303102..comments2024-01-04T06:27:01.723-06:00Comments on Troll Racials are Overpowered: If there had been no arenas...Klepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-91589731503820043302009-05-28T22:42:50.748-05:002009-05-28T22:42:50.748-05:00@dink1722: Also a large potion would be unhappy. ...@dink1722: Also a large potion would be unhappy. If I had to guess, I'd say there's a higher chance of losing customers by removing arenas than losing by keeping them in.<br /><br />@Hana: I wish I could find some hard statistics on what percentage raided MC or ZG/AQ20 compared to Karazhan. My own perspective is pretty biased because I did raid MC and had started BWL and when I didn't raid it was by a very conscious choice (I refused to join any guilds for a while), so to me, raiding seemed common, not a rare exception. Clearly there was a huge drop off from MC to BWL and probably even bigger to AQ40 and Naxx (the stats I've seen were something less than 5% ever saw it at 60). Late TBC felt a bit different, perhaps a bit less biased against those people who have no good name: casuals, non-raiders, no name really works.<br /><br />It is a shame that BGs have become an honor grind. Yet I wonder if they were anything different ever? I suppose under the old honor system they were a grind for those going for extremely high ranks (an unhealthy grind on some servers) while for others there was less grind simply because it was impossible with the time they had. Maybe when there's no hope of gear we have no choice but to have fun. :PKlepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-70970475882150144942009-05-28T13:56:52.189-05:002009-05-28T13:56:52.189-05:00Back in vanilla WoW a far smaller percentage of po...Back in vanilla WoW a far smaller percentage of population raided so many people viewed 60 BGs as their end game. They'd hope to get up to maybe one of the middle ranks (maybe even within 3-4 ranks of Grand Marshal/High Warlord) and that would be their peak.<br /><br />These people would never see MC or BWL. The gear they would get from BGs wouldn't be top of the line, but still very good, especially for a non-raider.<br /><br />That's not so different from how late TBC was, except that all the PvP rewards were now purple instead of blue and we can replace MC/BWL with Black Temple/Sunwell.<br /><br />I don't think arenas have removed the incentive to raid. Certainly during Season 5 the opposite was true. People who didn't raid got decimated by the raiders because the raid gear was so much better than the PvP gear (due to resilience being too low).<br /><br />Raiders also got to buy Hateful gear with their emblems of valor without spending either honor or arena points.<br /><br />What I do feel has been hurt by arena are the BGs. I feel like I only do BGs for honor now, and it all comes down to which BG gives me the most honor for the amount of time spent so I can make sure I have enough to go buy my gear. I miss playing the BGs I like because <I>I like them</I> rather that maximizing my honor gain.Hanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12020803566446071455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-3384919110330240702009-05-28T11:25:02.265-05:002009-05-28T11:25:02.265-05:00Rated battlegrounds. Better battlegrounds and fix...Rated battlegrounds. Better battlegrounds and fixes for the old. Alternative leveling through battlegrounds/pvp.<br /><br />Arena could go away today and a large portion of WoW players would be happy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com