We would love some dialog on Tol Barad

#1 - Jan. 27, 2011, 10:16 p.m.

Hi General Forums and Neighbourhood Blues. I would just like to ask nicely for some open dialog on what is going on in Tol Barad as far as plans for the future hold.

Any information, however small, would be greatly appreciated as the community (as far as I can tell, and I've done some research) are very dissapointed with the current implementation of Tol Barad, and would love to see just a hint of Blizzard wizardry going on behind the scenes.

What I understand the main issue to be, from personal observation and much feedback submitted by other players, is not the difficultly on offense or any detail like that (the community mostly understands your rationale for making O harder), but the plain low quality experiences Tol Barad battle offers:

- The battle is very un-engaging
- The objectives are shallow, dry and lack strategic depth
- The meta strategies involved are either very simple, or contain convoluted ideas to trick the opposition rather than outplay them
- The map/objective design doesn't fit with the audience it's targeted at: that is the map would be awesome if you had a full "WoW team" of 25 highly efficient and supremely organised players on each side duking it out; but you don't, you have a mostly unorganised casual mass. The design is not conducive for fun for the casual mass. Square Peg, Circle Hole
- Nothing about the mass battles you get (ie zerg vs zerg; something I do enjoy) feel anything even remotely close to "epic" (which I assume the design intent is)

So please is there anything little hint or titbit available so we can at least get a feel for where you are going? Even a flat "no we think TB is mostly fine, and only needs small adjustments" would be nice.

Thanks in advance.

Nethaera

Community Manager

#30 - Feb. 3, 2011, 9:52 p.m.

Thank you for taking the time to create this post and the constructive nature of it.

I'll try to answer for you what little I can. As I'm sure you've seen, we've made some smaller adjustments to Tol Barad to help some right now, but we know that these changes are just that, minor. That said though, we spent a lot of time developing Tol Barad and want to make sure that it is utilized and enjoyed as originally intended. We are continuing to discuss ways in which we can do this, but it's going to need additional development time. We do have some plans that we'd like to put into play, but I can't enlighten you on what those are as of yet and can only say that they will be done in the future at some point. Unfortunately, I can't give a better time table than that. I know that seems lacking, but Tol Barad is not "out of sight, out of mind for us."

01/27/2011 2:16 PMPosted by Lootifer
Hi General Forums and Neighbourhood Blues. I would just like to ask nicely for some open dialog on what is going on in Tol Barad as far as plans for the future hold.

Any information, however small, would be greatly appreciated as the community (as far as I can tell, and I've done some research) are very dissapointed with the current implementation of Tol Barad, and would love to see just a hint of Blizzard wizardry going on behind the scenes.