Quote Originally Posted by TheVigilant View Post
Just for those who don't know how open world PvP currently works in WoW, there is no such thing as a PvP server anymore since two expansions already and there is a PvP mode called War Mode for all servers instead.
I will say a few things about warmode.

1- It's basically dead, since Alliance don't use it because of how vastly outnumbered they are (just check out the war mode forum- it's basically Horde guilds trying to brag about their exploits in an echo chamber that the other side left five years ago)

2- It would require SE to implement phasing as well as some sort of cross realm world (or you wouldn't get wpvp at all if every single world had their own warmode version)- either way, you'd need to put in a new technology just for it, or, double the amount of servers for something that likely would see minimal use... clearly a massive undertaking either way

3- It absolutely did nothing to eliminate complaints about wpvp or the toxicity. At first it was full of Alliance complaining that they were camped everywhere, then Horde complaining that Alliance had too many incentives for being the smaller faction, then Alliance complaining because they were always so outnumbered they couldn't do anything while Horde basically got a permanent 10% buff. Then more complaints about Maw wpvp despite it being a feature you could turn off- and Blizz had to make changes to the Maw specifically for people who were complaining about being killed while using a feature they could turn off at any point. No matter how optional you make wpvp, it still ends up being a massive headache for everyone.

4- I feel like the incentives only made people who don't want to wpvp do it, which only led to a lot of the problems it has had.