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Boostzau#1966 – Add me! Any and all 39s feel free, I’m hoping to be available to the bracket for any discussion or thoughts you have.
Hey everyone,
So Anatomyz is stepping down as bracketmaster and after speaking to him I’ve decided to enter into that role for the interim. Firstly I’d like to thank Anatomyz for getting the bracket up on 2 legs, he definitely directed the start-up of a bracket and it’s heading in a great direction thanks to him. I do want to voice a slight concern I have in the fact that I am an Oceanic (Australian) and the bracket is obviously primarily US based. Presently that’s not a huge issue, I can make the dates/times set, but in the long run it may require someone based in that timezone. We’ll see.
So, looking forward. I have a few ideas in mind that I believe will be for the benefit of the bracket. The first being based on spec neutering. Obviously the general community isn’t happy with the few people playing ferals in the bracket. We have a good community so 99% of people realize that spec is a particular issue in battlegrounds. However there will always be an individual or two who does not care or respect our pleas to have a certain level of balance in games.
So what I’d like to do is copy the template set by the 29 bracket with the aimed shot ban. Anyone found playing feral as a spec will not receive support from their team, and players on the opposing team will be hunting down that player in games. This may seem harsh, but it was used to great effect in the 29 bracket and lead to better games overall. This is something we need to stomp out before it becomes a recurring issue.
New players into the bracket playing ferals will be given information and warnings about our position concerning the spec.
However, obviously players spent time/gold on their characters. I am aware of the current ferals in the bracket, so I am offering runs/funding if they want it (on their server through battlepet sales) to those few players to respec their druids or start a new 39 toon.
The other slight concern is the slow increase of BM/Enhance in our games. I do not have an answer to that at this stage, but I know the community is considerate enough that it shouldn’t require particular effort to minimize that issue. The imbalance with those specs is also limited to 1 ability. In the case of BM, guard absorb on a dps Brewmaster is quite significant, and in the case of Enhance, stormstrike damage can be overwhelming, especially with other incoming damage. Xenkyro offered a solution in Enhances using daggers to dampen the damage of the spec slightly, but at this stage I don’t think it requires any specific attention. The games just gone I don’t believe there was more than 1 enhance for each team.
My second idea is to help create a new 39 guild on Bleeding Hollow Alliance. At present there are 2 ‘majorly active’ guilds in the form of ‘jcm’ on Sargeras and ‘We cute’ on Bleeding Hollow Horde. However jcm has a horde side guild on their server and while it does not have the strength of their alliance guild, it is slowly gaining characters and has a decent roster at the present. This leaves a nice spot in the form of BH Ally side. It helps cement a possible future hub for 39 recruitment (oh hey recruitment video plug) and new players to the bracket looking for a base to start with.
What I’d like to do with this guild is offer funding/support to current and future players who are not already permanently guilded; that is, already have toon(s) in major 39 guilds. This will be similar to the GG19 project (I’m not original, all my ideas were stolen from somewhere) and assisting people in making new 39s to be part of a guild.
Which leads me to the second part of this idea….HALP! I’m not the richest player to begin with, and a fair amount of my gold was used to help JCM on Horde side. I have about 90k at the moment which I’ll be putting toward this. I would really appreciate any form of support/donations in gold/items/time in getting this off the ground. Battle pets is always the easiest way to get gold to other servers, and doesn’t require any RL money. My hope is in the long run the guild will run itself, I plan to be the temporary gm just to control the gbank, but I will not be running the guild, What would be great is that a few driven players will apply for that position in the long term.
I’ve already written walls and walls so I’ll very briefly touch the last idea that the community would like to start – themed bg weekends. Yes, wsg maps over and over can get stale, so it would be nice to every now and then do something a little different. I still think we are very early into the bracket’s revival to risk nights on alternate bgs, but it’s definitely something I want to introduce in the future.
That’s about it for now, I’ll obviously be more active in my role in the 39 bracket in terms of information and guidance/support in the upcoming months.
Thanks for reading
-Boostz
Hey everyone,
So Anatomyz is stepping down as bracketmaster and after speaking to him I’ve decided to enter into that role for the interim. Firstly I’d like to thank Anatomyz for getting the bracket up on 2 legs, he definitely directed the start-up of a bracket and it’s heading in a great direction thanks to him. I do want to voice a slight concern I have in the fact that I am an Oceanic (Australian) and the bracket is obviously primarily US based. Presently that’s not a huge issue, I can make the dates/times set, but in the long run it may require someone based in that timezone. We’ll see.
So, looking forward. I have a few ideas in mind that I believe will be for the benefit of the bracket. The first being based on spec neutering. Obviously the general community isn’t happy with the few people playing ferals in the bracket. We have a good community so 99% of people realize that spec is a particular issue in battlegrounds. However there will always be an individual or two who does not care or respect our pleas to have a certain level of balance in games.
So what I’d like to do is copy the template set by the 29 bracket with the aimed shot ban. Anyone found playing feral as a spec will not receive support from their team, and players on the opposing team will be hunting down that player in games. This may seem harsh, but it was used to great effect in the 29 bracket and lead to better games overall. This is something we need to stomp out before it becomes a recurring issue.
New players into the bracket playing ferals will be given information and warnings about our position concerning the spec.
However, obviously players spent time/gold on their characters. I am aware of the current ferals in the bracket, so I am offering runs/funding if they want it (on their server through battlepet sales) to those few players to respec their druids or start a new 39 toon.
The other slight concern is the slow increase of BM/Enhance in our games. I do not have an answer to that at this stage, but I know the community is considerate enough that it shouldn’t require particular effort to minimize that issue. The imbalance with those specs is also limited to 1 ability. In the case of BM, guard absorb on a dps Brewmaster is quite significant, and in the case of Enhance, stormstrike damage can be overwhelming, especially with other incoming damage. Xenkyro offered a solution in Enhances using daggers to dampen the damage of the spec slightly, but at this stage I don’t think it requires any specific attention. The games just gone I don’t believe there was more than 1 enhance for each team.
My second idea is to help create a new 39 guild on Bleeding Hollow Alliance. At present there are 2 ‘majorly active’ guilds in the form of ‘jcm’ on Sargeras and ‘We cute’ on Bleeding Hollow Horde. However jcm has a horde side guild on their server and while it does not have the strength of their alliance guild, it is slowly gaining characters and has a decent roster at the present. This leaves a nice spot in the form of BH Ally side. It helps cement a possible future hub for 39 recruitment (oh hey recruitment video plug) and new players to the bracket looking for a base to start with.
What I’d like to do with this guild is offer funding/support to current and future players who are not already permanently guilded; that is, already have toon(s) in major 39 guilds. This will be similar to the GG19 project (I’m not original, all my ideas were stolen from somewhere) and assisting people in making new 39s to be part of a guild.
Which leads me to the second part of this idea….HALP! I’m not the richest player to begin with, and a fair amount of my gold was used to help JCM on Horde side. I have about 90k at the moment which I’ll be putting toward this. I would really appreciate any form of support/donations in gold/items/time in getting this off the ground. Battle pets is always the easiest way to get gold to other servers, and doesn’t require any RL money. My hope is in the long run the guild will run itself, I plan to be the temporary gm just to control the gbank, but I will not be running the guild, What would be great is that a few driven players will apply for that position in the long term.
I’ve already written walls and walls so I’ll very briefly touch the last idea that the community would like to start – themed bg weekends. Yes, wsg maps over and over can get stale, so it would be nice to every now and then do something a little different. I still think we are very early into the bracket’s revival to risk nights on alternate bgs, but it’s definitely something I want to introduce in the future.
That’s about it for now, I’ll obviously be more active in my role in the 39 bracket in terms of information and guidance/support in the upcoming months.
Thanks for reading
-Boostz
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