PvP Q&A With Holinka

Feedbot · Apr 17, 2015

PvP Q&A With Holinka

Crit

They wanted to try to not have the difference between sustained damage and crit damage be to massive.
Some classes benefited from this more than others.
They will buff skills that they feel are too weak with the reduced crit and multistrike.
They feel the game is better without having the battle be based on the crit lottery.

Nemesis quest

The nemesis quest is being talked about.
They designed it to be a WoD thing that is done out in the world, and they currently want to stick to this. But they will be looking at the requirements for it.

PvP vs PvE

They want to add more “knobs” that lets them deal with adjusting skills for pvp without effecting pve. They don't think having a PvE and PvP version of every skill is the correct solution.
They are talking about other plans for the future to solve this and are excited about it.

CC

High level goal with CC effects going into WoD is players want to be playing their characters more.
They would first want to take more CC out of the game before breaks.
This would not be a goal for 6.2.
CC is one of the most important parts of the game. They have no plans to remove all CCs from the game.
There may be too much CC right now however.

Tournaments

Blizzard is very thankful for all the people hosting tournaments for WoW.
They want to continue to find ways to help those people hosting tournaments out.
They have things coming that they wish they could share today.
They think battlegrounds could be fun to watch too.

Dampening Mechanic

They are happy with this mechanic.
They wanted games to end in a reasonable amount of time, and they are.
They think that building comps around the dampening mechanic is a strategic option that players can pick if they wish, and have no problems with it.

Alt progression

They are happy with where they are going with 6.2 with alt progression in pvp.
They do want to make sure that you still need to play the alt to gear it up in the end.
They are still very open to feedback and will take it step by step.
They do not have plans to bring back the 2700 CP vendor. They feel the system did not make a lot of sense for the average player.

Ilvl in PvP

They hear the request to keep everyone at the same ilvl for pvp a lot. However if they take away the gear progression from pvp, they need to figure out what players would do to progress.
They have tried to shrink the gap between the highest and lowest player ilvl.

Race Balance

Solo Queue

They feel solo queue experiences can be very toxic.
When you have pre-made groups you will have a leader which will set the tone for the group. If you act out of line, they can kick you out.
They think the group finder has been a very big success.
They have thought there might be a dip in progression in Rated BGs, but participation is up by upwards of 50% to 60% even with less rewards just because of how easy it is to group.
no plans for Solo queue rated pvp at this time.

Ashran

They felt Ashran was the new type of content that players wanted, however they feel it did not hit the mark. Blizzard is very unhappy with how it turned out and really want to improve it.
faction unbalance is an issue they are still working on.
They thought server communities was important at the start for asharn, turns out it was not.
They might make the conquest able to be rewarded higher than 500.
One thing they are thinking about, is allowing you to cap your conquest just on asharn, but you would need to participate in all areas of asharan to achieve this.
They may restrict it so only groups can que for ashran, and not raids. They are open to feedback on this.

Alterac Valley

They do want to keep it balanced and up to date as they have gotten lots of good feedback, but no key game changes planned.

Botters

They know botters do not make the game look good.
They put a lot of effort into stopping them.
They are not transparent for a few reason. One key reason is they do not want to tip botters off. If they come up with a new method, they don’t want to inform botters of this while they are working on the system.

New Legendary Ring proc

Low Level PvP

They focus on high level pvp for balance.
If something is very unbalanced - such as a single spell, they want to hear about it and fix.
If you find that some classes are stronger at say level 20, that is not something they spend a lot of time on.
There is a open bug that XP-Off players can not que for wargames. This is being fixed.

Misc

Many, many more class changes are coming to the PTR. What we have seen is a very small amount of them, and changes have already been made to some of those.
They are happy with the ability pruning, and in fact will probably prune more abilities down the road.
Blizzard is happy, but not satisfied with how PvP turned out in WoD so far.