World of Warcraft Season of Discovery Phase 1 introduced a brand new PvP event centered in the Ashenvale zone where players can fight against the opposing faction, defeat enemy leaders, and claim Honor points while doing so. Battle of Ashenvale has been a mixed bag amongst the players and it seems that Blizzard Entertainment is still looking to balance and make it worthwhile to participate in the event.
A lot of the initial community backlash came from the lack of quality-of-life changes that at first seemed rather unfun for players trying to participate in the event as exploits and cheese strategies were quickly adapted to farm Honor as quickly as possible instead of engaging in open-world PvP.
We will be taking a look at Blizzard's recent blue post along with the community reaction to this change.
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WoW SoD PvP Event Hotfixes January 8, 2024
Two simple but very notable changes that will allow players to rank up their reputation.
[With weekly restarts]
The Battle for Ashenvale now has minimum and maximum times between battles. It will now never restart sooner than about 2 hours after its last start, and will not take longer than about 3 hours since its last start. If player activity is very low or very high, the percentage progress will be sped up or slowed down to match those time constraints.
[With weekly restarts]
Battle for Ashenvale quests “Clear the Forest!” and “Repelling Invaders” now award 1000 reputation (was 200).
Both of these changes will significantly impact the way players progress their characters in preparation for World of Warcraft Season of Discovery Phase 2. Although it can be seen as a step in the right direction, it might be too late for the devs to focus on fixing the PvP event, and instead commit to the upcoming Stranglethorn Vale PvP zone to make sure that all of the rough edges have been smoothed out.
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Community Reaction
Some players are happy about the reputation reward being increased from 200 to 1000 as that will greatly help your characters get access to gear in Phase 2.
These changes will also help other players that are a bit behind the curve to either level up and further progress their main characters or allow altholics to gear up even more of their characters.
Overall, this might be a positive change, and hopefully Blizzard devs were able to learn a lot from the issues that the community was able to identify so that the next phases of Season of Discovery are even more fun for everyone involved!
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