This is the only post that people need to read tbh.
Its just an optional PVP server you can jump into and out whenever you feel like it. Sometimes I turn it off when I don't feel like pvping but leave it on for the most part.
The other galaxy brain explanations are completely fucking idiotic.
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Listeen here you self-righteous elitest, it doesn't matter if you think somethings "real pvp" or not. Don't you get it? Some people like doing skill-based charracter progression and you have features that reflects thats, go do it. But no need to shame people that just like wpvp. I even agree with you. Ranked pvp is more challanging and the rewards reflect it. I can't understand your issue here? Are you sure you should'nt just turn off warmode now that it's borthering you so much?
WarMode has a toggle, these threads shouldn’t exist. :/
Would you prefer it if you were on a PvP realm? If that were so, you would’ve never been able to complete those incursions.
If that was really all it was, then why is blizzard trying to coerce players into using war mode with PVE bonuses and extra abilities(some of which used to be PVE talents!)?
It's clearly not meant to be just a pvp mode to emulate PVP servers. Otherwise it would have nothing BUT the pvp flag.
To implore random world pvp. Not enough people enjoy it (Or chances are they'd be on a Wpvp server), so they crank up the bonuses to strengthen the carrot, which works for some I guess. I think I've used it once, by a misclick. Warmode is unneeded, it'd be plenty enough with the pvp tag. Blizzard just won't let it be.
Sure, I'd prefer if I were on a PvP realm, because then I could just reroll on another realm and never be bothered by it again.
As it stands, a 25% bonus is just too significant to give up, even if I run into an easily avoided ganksquad maybe twice a week.
To contextualise this with an example, WQs aren't even the most effective source of gold, but I have made 400k gold since Blizzcon from WQs alone. 25% on top of that is no joke. Now imagine that for an entire expansion, now imagine that for the other rewards (AP and resources - might not be relevant anymore on my main, but are much needed on my alts).
The bonus is not negligible.
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Only reason I've tried it is to check what those air drops give at the start of the expansion. Was disappointed, and didn't enter warmode since, except maybe once to do a quest.
The purpose of Warmode is to make PvP opt-in on every realm. While you might say that it was always opt-in, that is true, but now people are free to roll on whichever realm they want (such as playing with friends), without worrying about PvP.
So what is the point of wPvP? Well, the point is that it's anything you can make of it. Do you just want to kill players all day long in open PvP? Do you just want to PvP while questing? Do you want to represent your faction pride and secure kills and rares for your faction? Do you want, mostly, free loot through airdrops? Do you the Warmode bonus?
World PvP is a blank canvas and you get to choose what you want to do in it. If you decide that everything is unappealing to you, you can turn it off. If you decide that everyone except the bonuses are unappealing, you can play and simply not fight back.