Hello Blackrock,
As you might have noticed we’ve been in touch with a lot of you and we’ve been asking what we can do in order to improve the realm and to promote the competitive spirit. All of your answers and the general feedback of the community has lead us to a conclusion. We have made a couple of decisions and the changes that we will or we already have done are the following:
▪ Free gear for everyone (currently live)
▪ FFA Solo Queue (currently live)
▪ Weekly Point System (system is pending completion)
▪ Rework of the transmog system (not currently live)
▪ Disable name change (currently live)
▪ PvP T2 Weps and ilvl 277 trinkets (currently live)
Free gear for everyone.
It's been a dream for a very long time to actually let everyone have equal gear. It is our opinion that new players will be able to integrate themselves into the community and play on the same terms as the rest of the realm. This will also provide a new challenge to the older part of our community as they will now face opponents of equal gear. Let the skill speak and not the gear.
FFA (free for all) Solo Queue
We’ve been using the previous (MCH) system for a long time now and we know that it’s working very well however it is our belief that we can possibly even improve more the process of solo queue and increase PvP activity in our 3s ladder as this is the focal point of skilled players. We can go back to our previous system at any time we want and this is only a test to see if activity rises. So now instead of only getting matched up with a Melee, Caster and a Healer you're getting queued as DPS + DPS + Healer. That allowed us to open up Due queue to vs all comps in the 3vs3 bracket.
Weekly point system
This is our brand new system that we believe will create a more challenging PvP situation on Blackrock. In the past everything was about gear and the gear was a big goal for a lot of players but we noticed that once this goal is reached a lot of players stop being active so we’re trying new things and one of those new things is this system.
Basically it’s a system that allows you to collect points from various PvP activities (arena matches, BGs, wPvP) and various rewards based on the amount of points will be rewarded. As usual more skilled (high rated) players can expect higher rewards and recognition but we believe this will be a fun system for everyone as there will be always something to do and it will be an interesting addition to the current state of the realm.
As always we appreciate your feedback and we would like to hear your suggestions in regards to what kind of rewards you would like from this system. The feedback thread for rewards for this system is here: http://forum.warmane.com/showthread....64#post2488964
Transmog rework
More transmog sets is a common thing that a lot of players ask for so we have decided to rework the current system in order to allow more customization and let the players decided on what they want to wear. It would be a strain on the Warmane team to add every single possible variation of a set so why not allow you, the players, to decide what items you want? That’s exactly what we decided to do and you’ll be in charge of what shiny armor you’ll have on you. Every item in the database will be available for transmogrification. All you need to do is enter the item ID at the transmog NPC and it will give you a new cool look. In order for this work we have implemented a new token that will be used to activate this feature. This will be one of the rewards for the previously mentioned Weekly Points System and it will be also available on the Store for those that want to quickly get the look what they want. As this is a purely cosmetical feature we believe it won’t harm the current state of the realm and of course there will be some limitations on what items will be available for transmogrification and the main reason is that some items were not supposed to be ever used and serve only as placeholders in the database, some will also be exclusive for weekly top points and even rating.
Disable name change
We think player identity and reputation is important so we have decided to disable all name changes. This is also partly due to our previous system allowing little to no responsbility for actions and words of players towards each other.
Regards
Warmane
-- UPDATE --
The weekly honor reset has been removed.
