One last effort...

[Kango]

First post ever...

December 18, 2009 at 0:22 is when I've created my account here and this immediately became my favorite server, I've probably brought more then 100 players here over the years only to see it thrive, I love Smolderforge, seen all it's rises and falls and the current situation just breaks my heart, things were never this bad imho...

PVE suggestion (1 group today was looking more then an hour for a tank): As I waited in today's que of 18 v 0 having nothing to do and all this hype about classic wow, out of nostalgia I ported into some old dungeons, with music and ambience sound maxed first was Scholomance and oh man that cathedral and windy undeadish theme was a real pleasure, next was BlackRock Depths voted the best dungeon of all time from all expansions...entire city, with secret doors and awesome lore...Stratholme, BRS, ZG, Molten Core and Ragnaros, BWL and Nefarian...
...Why not add Badges of Justice and Weapon Fragments to the loot of their bosses, or even a SWP piece to the final bosses like Ragnaros and Nefarian, but also a 24h cooldown so there is variety and people do all of them...Weapon fragments take years to get on more then 1 char, this will be a great thing to implement after all it's only cosmetics...NAXX, I mean Kel'thuzad and Sapphiron (Might of Menethil, The Hungering Cold, The Face of Death, most amazing looking shield - best looking items in the game for transmog) the best part is you don't even need to scale BRD to our lvl...2-3 dps with 1 healer can do it and we don't need to wait hours to find a tank, will be extremely fun and rewarding and horde chars can progress without being farmed in wsg. Give us chores and options, give us something to do other then waiting in que only to end up in unbalanced boring battleground.

PVP: One solution for all the problems...Alliance characters gather gear 3 times faster then Horde...the win ratio is incredibly high in favor of alliance and that's why we got this 20 ally and 0 horde qued in battlegrounds, this further encourages the players to play alliance which even more complicates things...There are zero challenging bgs, I don't remember 2:2 wsg, each wsg nowadays is 3:0 with farming kills, 10 ally vs 6 horde...and there are no qued people to replace the 4 that left...Server population is getting lower as time passes because of this...Cross faction battlegrounds is the solution to all this problems, a gm yesterday told me it is currently under some fine-tuning and will be implemented soon, I hope this is true...

I play a decade on a free server and you guys already gave us too much, I know it's time consuming and priorities have changed over the years, maybe you don't have the free time like before to bother with such things but I urge and beg you to give one last effort and make Smolderforge great again.

Thank you and sorry for the long post.