Hello! As everyone might have noticed, yesterday Lordaeron reached population cap of 12000 players.
This is a great time to take some actions towards reviving Lordaeron PvP scene.
By reviving i mean doing something with crossrealm situation.
Crossrealm was implemented as a feature to deal with Lordaeron's low population back then.
Now with lordaeron reaching population cap, it's obviously no longer necessary.
Now a little on current Lordaeron PvP situation and feelings about crossrealm from active PvP player point of view.
Arenas are challenging due to the fact that we are playing with a handicap for not having gear, and requires a lot of skill to progress in your gear.
On the other side, amount of players with enough gear to be competitive on crossrealm scene are incredibly small.
Which makes arena experience for majority of Lordaeron players completely awful.
Personally, I cant speak much about arenas since i stopped playing them due just being tired of having to compete versus players that got way better gear than me.
Crossrealm bgs are just terrible. It's a big NO. As was stated above, players on Lordaeron greatly lack the gear.
Yes, we do have instant queue times now, but do we have fun? No. Majority of Lordaeron PvP players refuse to do bgs.
In the past we had queue time, but it was not that bad. Bgs just had their time of day.
Now we have no queue times, but we dont play bgs anymore. Nobody likes crossrealm bgs.
You cant even make a full Lordaeron premade due to again - lack of gear.
Before someone shows up with excuses like "outsmart them" and "skill > gear" i have to say that people are the same everywhere.
All realms have bad and good players, Lordaeron just got less gear. And here it matters.
Crossrealm was a big hit for Lordaeron PvP community. Majority of players left the server/stopped playing PvP.
For over a year since crossrealm became a thing i havent encountered a single player saying that they're enjoying the feature.
I understand why crossrealm is still here, Lordaeron PvP just died. People got tired of playing in unfair PvP, i cant blame them.
Lordaeron is turned away from PvP to the point where new players not coming here with any plans to PvP.
Something has to be done and good time for this has come.
My suggestion is taking Lordaeron away from crossrealm battlegrounds for this season and see how it goes.
Since arena season already started, removing crossrealm feature mid season is not a good idea.
Best will be keep decision about arenas till the end of season. There you will have stats from and can make finall decision about Lordaeron and crossrealm.
Lordaeron got the people now, make our PvP great again.