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A Tragedy in Three Parts: The Bugs of Cataclysm PvP Season 9
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In this article we will tell you how the beginning of PvP Season 9 was marked by bugs, missing Vendors, and even (dare we say it?) exploits. Read on to learn all about the tumultuous launch of competitive PvP in Cataclysm Classic, or click the links below if you're just looking for information on how the systems work properly now:
PvP Season 9 Overview - Cataclysm Classic Rated Battlegrounds Overview - Cataclysm Classic
Honor Gear - Cataclysm Classic Conquest Gear - Cataclysm Classic
Let's talk about the beginning of PvP Season 9 in Cataclysm Classic, a Tragedy in Three Parts.
Cataclysm Classic descended upon Azeroth on May 20th. For PvPers, the first week of the expansion would mean a journey to level 85, followed by gearing up through farming
Pontos de Honra
to buy Bloodthirsty PvP Gear with an item level of 352 - all to prepare for the beginning of PvP Season 9 on May 28th.
This new Season would bring Rated Arenas, two new Battlegrounds, the new Rated Battleground game-mode, and most important of all,
Pontos de Dominação
. This currency would be used to purchase the most powerful PvP items in the game, Vicious Gladiator gear - but not all at once, as there would be a weekly cap, keeping players in step with each other. No matter how much Rated PvP you played, win or lose, you would not be able to pull ahead of the pack with Conquest gear.
At least, that's how it was
supposed
to happen. That's what players expected. It was, however, not what unfolded over the first few days of the Season.
Part 1: Overpowered Crafted Gear
With any new expansion, there will of course be new Crafted Gear, including some starter PvP items. These Crafted pieces are intended to work as a first stepping stone to get into PvP, allowing you to purchase low-item level gear with Resilience on it without having to actually step into the dangerous world of PvP.
However, on the launch of Cataclysm Classic, the crafted Vicious gear was not the intended item level 339 -
it was 377
. In comparison, Heroic Raids in Phase 1 of Cataclysm drop item level 372 gear.
This was clearly unintended, and most likely a remnant of code that does upgrade the crafted Vicious items to 377 in future Phases of Cataclysm. It was hotfixed rather quickly (
May 22nd, 2024
) and rolled back any 377 gear to 339. While this bug allowed players who discovered it to dominate in PvP for a short while, it was before PvP Season 9 began and did not leave a lasting mark on the PvP scene.
Part 2: Missing Honor Vendors
At the same time as this crafted PvP gear was discovered, players began to hit level 85 and collect thousands of
Pontos de Honra
, and they understandably wanted to spend this hard-earned currency. When they went to visit their local Honor Quartermasters (
Tenente-cavaleira T'Maire Sydes
in Stormwind and
Guarda-de-sangue Zar'shi
in Orgrimmar), however, they found... well, nothing. The Honor Gear vendors simply weren't there.
Players began to report this en mass, and Blizzard seemed aware of the issue. They responded that they had "an issue that are trying to fix" on May 21st.
There is no honor vendor for level 85 Bloodthirsty gear in the Stormwind War Room. Please add so we can spend our cap and start farming honor!
We’ve got an issue that we’re working to fix.
We plan to spawn the PvP vendors selling Bloodthirsty (iLvl 352) gear as soon as we can.
That same day, the vendors were reported to have returned. There was no word on the issue or what caused it, but a small hiccup never hurt anybody, or so many players rationalized. One day of missing vendors would be fine, as long as they were there after that, right?
Part 3: Disabled Battlegrounds
Seven days later, on May 28th, the third tragedy hit - although this third and final tragedy had many parts. May 28th marked the beginning of PvP Season 9, and was supposed to allow players to step into the two new Battlegrounds, Twin Peaks and Battle for Gilneas, as well as start the weekly process of earning
Pontos de Dominação
.
One of those things didn't happen, and the other happened
too much
.
Missing Battlegrounds
In a hotfix, Blizzard announced that the new Twin Peaks Battleground was made "temporarily unavailable while some issues are addressed."
May 28, 2024
Cataclysm Classic
The Twin Peaks battleground is temporarily unavailable while some issues are addressed.
While no official word was given, it seemed that the Battle for Gilneas battleground had also been made unavailable. As of the publishing of this article, we are still seeing reports of these two Battlegrounds not being available when queuing for Random Battlegrounds - although it seems some players are getting Battle for Gilneas in Rated Battlegrounds:
June 3, 2024
I got it
in rbgs too, but not non rated battleground, also haven’t heard of anyone getting twin peaks in rated or non rated
We don't know what the issue was that initially caused Blizzard to disable Twin Peaks, and even less information exists on why Battle for Gilneas is only showing up in the RBG rotation and not Random Battlegrounds. It also seems that you cannot queue specifically for either of them:
June 3, 2024
Nope, you can try queueing up specifically in game and the queue time will be unavailable and never pop
No timeline has been given for when these Battlegrounds will be made available again.
Conquest Bug... or Exploit?
In addition to the two new Battlegrounds, PvP Season 9 was supposed to introduce
Pontos de Dominação
, but with a weekly cap of 4,000 that increased by an additional 4,000 each week. When the season launched, though, it was reported that it wasn't a cap on 4,000
Pontos de Dominação
earned
, but rather 4,000
Pontos de Dominação
in your bags
.
May 28th, 2024
Apparently when you spend your conquest points, it removes the conquest that is totaled in your cap for the week. People are literally getting full conquest gear on day 1 of the season.
If you are even remotely late to the start, you are already significantly behind all of the people playing non-stop all day long.
Can we do something about this?
As an example:
A player would be able to earn 4,000
Pontos de Dominação
through various PvP activities.
They purchase
Elmo de Medoplaca do Gladiador Cruel
for 0
Pontos de Dominação
, and
Omoplatas de Medoplaca do Gladiador Cruel
for 0
Pontos de Dominação
.
As the Conquest left their bags, the cap was "raised" and they could earn up to 4,000
Pontos de Dominação
again.
They purchase
Peito d'Armas de Medoplaca do Gladiador Cruel
for 0
Pontos de Dominação
and
Manoplas de Medoplaca do Gladiador Cruel
for 0
Pontos de Dominação
.
This gives that player a full 4-set of Vicious Gladiator gear, totaling a cost of 7,700
Pontos de Dominação
.
When this was discovered, Blizzard took the fastest direct route to prevent more bugged purchases - they removed the vendors selling the gear. This also happened to not only remove the Conquest vendors, but the Honor vendors too (again!).
Earlier today, in order to address an issue with items that can be purchased for Conquest, we sent all of the Conquest vendors on a vacation.
We’ve been working diligently to understand and fix the issue, but it has turned out to be a particularly tricky one. At this time, we don’t know how long it’s going to take to fix.
Something we do know is – we’ll probably have to do realm restarts to make the fix for this work correctly and bring the Conquest vendors back from their trip. So you can keep an eye out for scheduled realm restarts to know when we have it all sorted.
Thank you for your patience!
Whatever caused the issue seemed to be more complicated than a simple "Change the cap to 4,000 again", as Blizzard had to do a full realm restart after they fixed the issue. Which they did, two days later on May 30th:
The realm restarts are scheduled for 7:00 a.m. PDT tomorrow (May 30).
We expect the vendors to spawn as expected when realms come back up.
All's Well That Ends... Not As Bad As It Could Have
PvP Season 9 has begun to stabilize, with Conquest back to having a weekly cap of 4,000 and increasing by another 4,000 each week. The vendors are back, and you can freely spend both your
Pontos de Honra
and
Pontos de Dominação
.
However, we have had no word on how (or if) players who took advantage of the Conquest bug will be affected, which means that there are still players out there with full Conquest gear. The Twin Peaks Battleground is still entirely unavailable, and Battle for Gilneas seems only to appear when playing Rated Battlegrounds.
Hopefully, both of these issues will be resolved soon️. Have you been affected by these bugs in the past week? Are you itching to get into the two new Battlegrounds? Let us know in the comments below!
To read more about how PvP Season 9 is now working, check out our guides below:
PvP Season 9 Overview - Cataclysm Classic Rated Battlegrounds Overview - Cataclysm Classic
Honor Gear - Cataclysm Classic Conquest Gear - Cataclysm Classic
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