World of Warcraft's controversial battle royale mode relaunched a week ago, once again pitting PvE mount and transmog collectors against hardcore PvP enjoyers.
And this time around… almost no one is complaining. Blizzard made some smart changes to the way its pirate-themed Plunderstorm worked.
The rate of earning plunder, the game mode's currency, has increased. Players are given the opportunity to choose where on the map they bomb into, and NPC mobs respawn, enabling PvE players to focus almost entirely on NPCs instead of each other (until some PvPer comes a-hunting, of course).
Random horses allow players to zoom around the map. But most importantly, perhaps, all of the new transmog and mounts are on a vendor for plunder, instead of being attached to renown levels.
This means that players who are solely after the new mount, or pet, or nifty black pirate transmog armor pieces, can just grind what they care about and then jump out, instead of having to pick their way through 40 levels of reputation against people who are enjoying, you know, winning.