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War Mode has been improved recently, with a hotfix that will force a more even ratio of both factions present in each shard. While it's unclear when "some time ago" was exactly, this should help with the faction imbalance players have been encountering. It won't, however, be an instant nor absolute fix for the issue, as it still takes some time for the shard to balance itself out. There will also be more improvements coming with 8.1, including better rewards for the underrepresented faction in the shard.

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Some time ago we made a hotfix to War Mode which enforces all War Mode shards that have both Alliance and Horde in them to have a stricter, more even ratio. We’ve been monitoring the results and so far we’ve noticed a significant improvement in “fair and balanced” shards. So much so that it’s safe to say that if you are Alliance, and you see Horde in the outdoor world in War Mode, you are a relatively even horde to alliance ratio shard. There are some rare exceptions, such as when a raid of 40 players enter a zone. It may take a bit for the “shard manager” to compensate and balance the shard.

We do have some plans in store in Tides of Vengeance (Patch 8.1) to entice the underrepresented faction with greater rewards to increase participation and create more active Horde/Allianced mixed War Mode shards. The intent of those rewards is not to give the underrepresented faction some “compensation” for being outnumbered in a War Mode shard (since that really can’t happen anymore).

We're also looking forward to what you all think about the Incursions in War Mode for 8.1, since it brings Horde and Alliance to the same location which should create some pretty fun skirmishes.
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play horde? turn on WM. play alliance? turn it off and never, EVER think about turning it back on again. i hate what they have done to servers with sharding and cross realm BS.

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What annoys me is how often it's portrayed as "HORDE OUTNUMBERS!!!!onEONEONE!" when it differs greatly by region and time-zone. If I turn War-mode on as OCE Horde I'm begging for 50 alliance to come stab me. Getting the balance is good and important, no matter which faction is outnumbered.

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2 hours ago, Demonpuke said:

play horde? turn on WM. play alliance? turn it off and never, EVER think about turning it back on again. i hate what they have done to servers with sharding and cross realm BS.

I learned this lesson very quickly, i was level 30 in duskwood with warmode on and there was a level ?? ganking everyone for the fun of it and to prevent us from escaping, he killed the gryphon master and just kept killing everyone in war mode, this type of behavior in my opinion should be against the rules, i mean i can understand getting jumped by a couple of players around my level and thats fine, atleast i have a chance to fight back, but level 30 vs 120........sorry, but that is not fair and should be against the rules, with the punishment of perm-ban......i love challenge and competition, but when its unfair, even if its entirely in my favor is just not fun, since there is no chance for me to lose....you know?

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1 hour ago, Lithari said:

I learned this lesson very quickly, i was level 30 in duskwood with warmode on and there was a level ?? ganking everyone for the fun of it and to prevent us from escaping, he killed the gryphon master and just kept killing everyone in war mode, this type of behavior in my opinion should be against the rules, i mean i can understand getting jumped by a couple of players around my level and thats fine, atleast i have a chance to fight back, but level 30 vs 120........sorry, but that is not fair and should be against the rules, with the punishment of perm-ban......i love challenge and competition, but when its unfair, even if its entirely in my favor is just not fun, since there is no chance for me to lose....you know?

A better solution would be to make players unattackable if their level is a lot lower than yours. 

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1 hour ago, Lithari said:

I learned this lesson very quickly, i was level 30 in duskwood with warmode on and there was a level ?? ganking everyone for the fun of it and to prevent us from escaping, he killed the gryphon master and just kept killing everyone in war mode, this type of behavior in my opinion should be against the rules, i mean i can understand getting jumped by a couple of players around my level and thats fine, atleast i have a chance to fight back, but level 30 vs 120........sorry, but that is not fair and should be against the rules, with the punishment of perm-ban......i love challenge and competition, but when its unfair, even if its entirely in my favor is just not fun, since there is no chance for me to lose....you know?

 

11 minutes ago, VictorVakaras said:

A better solution would be to make players unattackable if their level is a lot lower than yours. 

The solution is to turn off warmode.

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1 minute ago, PaasHaaS said:

 

The solution is to turn off warmode.

Not the same at all.  Just makes it so you face players of the same level/ilvl. Blizzard is supposedly all about things being fair and balanced,  not sure what's fair about a lvl 120 slaughtering lowbies.

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52 minutes ago, VictorVakaras said:

A better solution would be to make players unattackable if their level is a lot lower than yours. 

Or you know turn off warmode because war is in the name and if you want balanced pvp go do a bg.

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6 hours ago, Demonpuke said:

play horde? turn on WM. play alliance? turn it off and never, EVER think about turning it back on again. i hate what they have done to servers with sharding and cross realm BS.

Would not make this better at all if you want things to change just make group or atleast keep WM on may be more challenging sometimes but if you love PVP it shouldn't be a problem. In an other hand if you are making this to get better reward and are not happy by getting killed on objectives then i can't help (talking for level 110-120 only ofc)

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Guys, you do know that just saying 'turn off war mode' is not solving the problem, its like sticking your head in the sand and ignoring the problem, i am guessing you guys take part in this 120 vs 30 type of tihng? that is the only logical conclusion, unless you are telling me that you are really that dumb? Please tell me its the first option and not the second, cause i would really feel pity for ya. ?

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1 hour ago, Lithari said:

Guys, you do know that just saying 'turn off war mode' is not solving the problem, its like sticking your head in the sand and ignoring the problem, i am guessing you guys take part in this 120 vs 30 type of tihng? that is the only logical conclusion, unless you are telling me that you are really that dumb? Please tell me its the first option and not the second, cause i would really feel pity for ya. ?

How is turning off warmode not a solution? And if you say the XP buff, that's reward for the risk you are taking.

Blizzard will never punish PvP griefing because there is always a solution, and if that means getting a high level char from your own faction to help, then that's what Blizzard wants you to do. From the Support Site:

"All players can actively choose when they wish to engage in PvP combat by enabling or disabling War Mode in the talents interface while in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. If you do not wish to engage in PvP combat, do not activate War Mode.

War Mode allows open combat between players of opposing factions that have opted in to PvP (Player versus Player). Players that activate War Mode are encouraged to resolve cross-faction disputes on their own. The Game Master staff will not intervene in PvP disputes.

The following actions may be considered dishonorable but are considered legitimate PvP tactics and will not be addressed by our Game Master staff:

  • - Corpse camping
  • - Killing players well below your level"
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1 hour ago, jinsu2301 said:

How is turning off warmode not a solution? And if you say the XP buff, that's reward for the risk you are taking.

Blizzard will never punish PvP griefing because there is always a solution, and if that means getting a high level char from your own faction to help, then that's what Blizzard wants you to do. From the Support Site:

"All players can actively choose when they wish to engage in PvP combat by enabling or disabling War Mode in the talents interface while in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. If you do not wish to engage in PvP combat, do not activate War Mode.

War Mode allows open combat between players of opposing factions that have opted in to PvP (Player versus Player). Players that activate War Mode are encouraged to resolve cross-faction disputes on their own. The Game Master staff will not intervene in PvP disputes.

The following actions may be considered dishonorable but are considered legitimate PvP tactics and will not be addressed by our Game Master staff:

  • - Corpse camping
  • - Killing players well below your level"

So, in other words they endorse ganking and pretty much unfair combat?? oh, so i guess they might as well allow trainers to be used in all their games with no penalty, since they clearly don't give a **** about fair play.....unless they only care about fair play when it suits their benefit.

Also, when it comes to the XP buff, sorry, but having the war mode on from stormwind to duskwood (taxi ride) and for 5 minutes after that getting killed by a player that is clearly level 120 over 30 times......sorry, but for it to be worth it, the xp bonus needs to be 100% xp bonus and 100% rep bonus.

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5 hours ago, MetalMallard said:

Would not make this better at all if you want things to change just make group or atleast keep WM on may be more challenging sometimes but if you love PVP it shouldn't be a problem. In an other hand if you are making this to get better reward and are not happy by getting killed on objectives then i can't help (talking for level 110-120 only ofc)

Depends on luck, if you encounter shard that is new and still being filled, you will see huge disproportions in numbers, although Horde is more likely to have more players in there. Top communities, along with those who want to be in those guilds or just want bigger recruitment pools, have switched to Horde, if they used to be Alliance previously, so War Mode often ends as "default passive bonus" for Horde, since there is no risk involved as they won't see many members from other faction. Right now, on EU Alliance is only about 43%, and this number will continue to drop if nothing is done, as "snowball effect" continues, when more people switch to simply be on the more populated side and with larger playerbase for recruitment. The only way to stop it, is probably to introduce some crossfaction play, however this likely won't fix difference in numbers, only slow the process down.

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1 hour ago, Lithari said:

sorry, but for it to be worth it, the xp bonus needs to be 100% xp bonus and 100% rep bonus.

Thankfully you can shut it off since it is not worth it!

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Isn't there a cap to the % of xp bonus or did that change? like 50% or something which is easily done via heirlooms. so warmode wouldn't really benefit the lowbies that complain about being wrecked by 120 rogues. If heirlooms cant be purchased by lowbies the reduction to exp thats coming will help entice lowbies to leave it off. Now warmode may be harsh for the 110-119 range due to the amount of 120's running around, but I had a blast with friends leveling from 110 to 120 on main and alts and continue to run warmode as 120 while rarely running into issue, even by myself. If i do run into a group that bends me over, im not going to complain. The problem I have with Warmode is it feels no different at 120 whether its on or off. I haven't been ganked or gangraped once at 120 with WM on.

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8 hours ago, PatrickHenry said:

Thankfully you can shut it off since it is not worth it!

I really don't think blizzard knows what rewarding means....i think they lost the meaning of that word when activision took over.

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So can someone clarify something for me, what exactly is the complaint about when a max level is killing NPCs and players in low level areas?

 

I remember playing on Darkspear back in Wrath for the better part of six months and as it was a PvP only server this stuff happened all the time in both the Horde and Alliance areas. Was always a pain when quest givers and flight masters got killed while you were out doing quests. I then got tired of dealing with that as I'd only joined that server when some friends wanted me to join their group and went and joined a different PvE server where if I wanted to PvP then I would intentionally do so but wasn't an always on thing.

 

Now that this is just literally a toggle option in the main cities and not a server choice, not even for a 100% xp and rep buff do I intend to have that on for either faction unless I'm willing to deal with stuff that has been happening probably since launch.

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17 hours ago, Lithari said:

Guys, you do know that just saying 'turn off war mode' is not solving the problem, its like sticking your head in the sand and ignoring the problem, i am guessing you guys take part in this 120 vs 30 type of tihng? that is the only logical conclusion, unless you are telling me that you are really that dumb? Please tell me its the first option and not the second, cause i would really feel pity for ya. ?

Please stop whining. 

When on a PvP server, PvP happens and ganking happens. End of story.

When turning WM on, PvP happens, and ganking happens. End of story.

If you get ganked, call on world defense, or general for help or in your guild. That is what we are doing. Very often we get a: "There is a group of xx alliances ganking us here, please help", and then we come and help and get honor and that's it.

If you can't take it, turn WM off and go in BG to catch up with the missing XP and do some PvP. You can get almost one level for each bg won, and you get a chance to get gear.

But whatever you do, stop whining and insulting other. That's not a very bright thing to do.

Regards,

Lehiya

 

 

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2 hours ago, Lehiya said:

Please stop whining. 

When on a PvP server, PvP happens and ganking happens. End of story.

When turning WM on, PvP happens, and ganking happens. End of story.

If you get ganked, call on world defense, or general for help or in your guild. That is what we are doing. Very often we get a: "There is a group of xx alliances ganking us here, please help", and then we come and help and get honor and that's it.

If you can't take it, turn WM off and go in BG to catch up with the missing XP and do some PvP. You can get almost one level for each bg won, and you get a chance to get gear.

But whatever you do, stop whining and insulting other. That's not a very bright thing to do.

Regards,

Lehiya

 

 

Yeah - great post.

War Mode isn't about fair play. It's about faction warfare. That isn't always fair. This is not a "problem" for Blizzard to fix. Complaining and saying "if you're Alliance, turn it off and NEVER turn it back on" is EXACTLY why the player made problem exists. I encounter more Alliance players that turn on War Mode solely for the 10% buff and then complain in /1 "Horde can't fight 1v1 cuz they bad lul".

No. There seems to be a greater number of Horde that group up to go have fun in War Mode by participating in world pvp - faction warfare.

When they Alliance players actually group up, in this multiplayer game, and fight back, as you should if you have turned War Mode on, big fun battles commence.

If you don't want to PvP. Turn it off. If you want to PvP and constantly complain that the Horde gang up and grief - actually talk to your fellow players and group up.

Thanks.

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Its quite simple remove the +10% bonus in warmode...and i dont think there is a reason to rage....

I mean why after many years playing in a pve server you are required to go pvp now for the bonus xp....

Now for players that played bofero in pvp servers nothing changes.... You are used to get ganked in lvling... ok:)

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20 hours ago, Arcling said:

Depends on luck, if you encounter shard that is new and still being filled, you will see huge disproportions in numbers, although Horde is more likely to have more players in there. Top communities, along with those who want to be in those guilds or just want bigger recruitment pools, have switched to Horde, if they used to be Alliance previously, so War Mode often ends as "default passive bonus" for Horde, since there is no risk involved as they won't see many members from other faction. Right now, on EU Alliance is only about 43%, and this number will continue to drop if nothing is done, as "snowball effect" continues, when more people switch to simply be on the more populated side and with larger playerbase for recruitment. The only way to stop it, is probably to introduce some crossfaction play, however this likely won't fix difference in numbers, only slow the process down.

You are correct and this is sad that it is dropping like that i'm from EU and particularly HYJAL (32% alliance) but i just never toggled off my WarMode at all from level 110 and never get involved in such disproportions that it would make me desactivate it or even leave the game and wait them to leave. Whenever i see a location with way more horde i either attack them anyway cause as this is not a huge threat for us more "low skills" player are there and easy to kill or i create group using LFG tools and start a "war" because this is what i like in the game now. I everyday see people whining on the /1 channel but this is not my experience of the game. I would like to see something done to bring back more balance in faction count but i can't think of a way to correct for the moment unfortunately as for example a majority of French streamer are horde and new player wants to follow them so the only way would be to unite and create big event like TromaFR did.
Anyway i'm glad you answer me, have a nice day.

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9 hours ago, Lehiya said:

If you can't take it, turn WM off and go in BG to catch up with the missing XP and do some PvP. You can get almost one level for each bg won, and you get a chance to get gear.

This is not the solution. Ganking isn't an issue, as much as disproportions in numbers. Less players in total, means less potential players interested in forming a group, more and more people turning it off, as there are less players on that side. This results in more and more transferring to dominant faction. 

6 hours ago, slypenguin0 said:

If you don't want to PvP. Turn it off. If you want to PvP and constantly complain that the Horde gang up and grief - actually talk to your fellow players and group up.

If nothing is done, like the mentioned crossfaction play, at one point, as a Horde, you simply aren't going to see any players to fight against or some rare instances. And it's going to affect more things, enjoy your 2 hour bg queues, I guess... As most expansions favored racials on the Horde, top pve and pvp communities and their followers have moved over, even if racials don't mean as much now, these people are going to stay now, as there is no point coming back for smaller playerbase and recruitment options. Racials should have been made into completely cosmetic or out of combat things years ago, it's late to do this now, so some other solutions are needed as well.

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      March 17 (Event) Un’Goro Madness Micro Holiday (March 17 – March 19)
      The dinosaurs in Un’Goro are getting restless. Time to go pay them a visit! March 19 (Article and Event) Content Update 10.2.6 Reveal and Now Live (Article) New Twitch Drop Revealed (Event) PvP Brawl: Shado-Pan Showdown (March 19 – March 26) (Event) Battleground Bonus Event (March 19 – March 26)
      While this event is active, random Battlegrounds will award Honor at an increased rate. Glory awaits in the fields of battle! March 20 (Event) The Trial of Style Returns (March 20 – March 26)
      Dust off those pauldrons and compete in a fashion competition of Azerothian proportions! Speak to a transmogrifier in any major city to participate in the Trial of Style! March 21 (Article) New Content Creator Event Announced March 22 (Article) Blues News (Event) New Twitch Drop Now Live Stay tuned to the official World of Warcraft news site as we journey through the week together.
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