Don’t MISS These Rewards! Do This FIRST in Patch 10.2.6

Patch 10.2.6 is finally here! And along with it come a bunch of time limited rewards from the Plunderstorm event, so if you don't want to miss all of these pirate themed goodies, you're going to want to hop in as soon as you can. There are also a few other new pieces of content in 10.2.6 to keep us busy until the next major patch rolls around.

[SignsOfKelani]

What do you think of Plunderstorm? Was it worth the wait or were you hoping for something entirely different?

[LadyTsunade]

The biggest tips for getting more renown progress for the rewards: you do get a daily bonus for your first game played each day, and it is far more important to kill mobs and loot chests and _make sure to pick up every gold pile that drops_
There is no bonus for living longer, no bonus for placing higher. The literal only thing that matters for renown progress is gold you pick up. That's it.
Tunnel vision on only killing players will severely hinder your progress towards rewards, and will make it take much longer. There is no benefit to being #1, no benefit to killing players over exploration and killing mobs and looting chests.
Killing other players is secondary at best, you get nothing other than a portion of their gold and their spells; meanwhile, killing mobs gets a lot more gold as well as XP, which is far more important for later in a game. I've had several matches where I was 2-3 levels higher than anyone left near the end, because I actually took the time to go kill mobs and elites and loot chests, instead of being one of those "must only kill players, must be #1"

[ohgreatitsyou]

After playing 15 matches and only at renown level 3 I don’t want to speculate the state my mental health would be in once I’d managed to max it out, 6 weeks of this ? Absolutely not they need to increase the renown gain or it will be dead in a week.

[Kronical]

Imagine if they took the manpower from this and used it to make the retaking of Gilneas a huge event like the Void zones and we could have been killing scarlet crusade and collecting awesome shit all Gilneas based while PLAYING THE ACTUAL FUCKING GAME!!!

[Just_jarmo]

For those that are curious, your plunder value at time of death is what you earn in reputation for renown.

[monsteratemehcookie]

I gave it a shot and hate it. It has no test drive, just FFA at start, I joined and immediately got ganked by 2. It's not for slow hands.

[Journeying.]

Haven’t tried it yet and I don’t have that feeling that I’m missing out.

[iansabrewolfe]

As much as I want the transmog set, I’m going to miss out on it. Plunderstorm is everything I dislike about PvP made worse. The thought grinding the rep out to get the rewards makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

[darwinxavier]

My cynical side is telling me that they kept this quiet because they knew most people would either hate fortnite clone or just be completely disinterested in general. After seeing them try to outright sell trader tenders in the cash shop in a bundle to VERY likely feel out how people would respond to it(not well), they're probably testing out Plunderstorm in the same manner to see if this could be something permanently added to the regular game as an integrated part. Considering how much they really want to whore out to the mobile game model with Diablo Immoral and Rumble, trying to dumb down WoW to a fortnite clone is totally something they would consider.

[shvansee]

As a pvper, im very concerned about the plunderstorm. They must have spent time developing it. I hope they wont ditch arena, that class gameplay wont be replaced with some shitty copy of fortnite.

[corsaircarl]

Yeah, this Plunderstorm event man, I hate doing PVP because I suck at it, I always end up either letting down my partner or getting surrounded and dying so fast that I might as well not play.

[shaunmil]

I've been playing since last night. Only rank 7. I don't mind a grind, but this is just gross.

[wilhelmsteiner]

Nah, I pvp regularly, and I do content regularly. This may be the first where both is 'integrated' together and I'm not even remotely entertained. Granted, it's meant for Mobile, but I subscribed to WoW for an RPG, with an MMO feeling to it to find friends, not to play a battle royal I can go play 50 other dedicated games for.

But the other achieves, I'ma attempt, bc hell yeah.

[frankyisadikted]

I'm very disappointed. They kept it a secret because they know that the majority of their player base want nothing to do with PvP. Who the hell at blizzard thought that this patch's focus should be 1 mount and 1 mog. No new mechanics, no new content to work towards, nothing to do on our live characters. Such a fucking "you guys have phones right" moment

[sebastiangjerde]

As I'm not a pvp'er I'm not going to do the new event. I'm collecting mounts but not through pvp. Going to do the achievements for the other mounts though. Thx for great info :)

[guillomen]

Plunderstorm is somewhat refreshing. Only downside is the 40 renowns… I’m getting a renown every 4-5 games (like they said) but if every renown is the same then that many games for a limited time event is exhausting. They need to increase the rep gain slightly or at least tell us when the event would end

[DarkAnimeAngel]

Ok, I feel this needs to be said for all those who are saying “I’m happy for the pvp-ers”, I love pvp, I have little interest in battle royal pvp. This really wasn’t worth all the hype. Just fix pvp in game, and ‘the pvp-ers” will be happy.

[RlyehBel]

Plunderstorm feels like a cheap game mode that was created last minute to keep your attention until War Within and keep you paying and not dropping the game like what happened near the end of Shadowlands. This is the beginning of cheap one off events that wont return and wont add anything to the game but will have rewards that maximize FOMO. I hope Blizz learns that if they want to add fun events like this make limited rewards that are equivalent to AoC for raiding then have the small time event be a permanent fun side activity you can do any time and earn the other rewards over time. Hell they could of added this as a raid where you get these random spells in chests you earn via plundering islands throughout the raid. If you absolutely need this to be PvP then dont make the rewards feel super FOMO styled.

[ReikaLady]

I'm not a fan of PvP so not enjoying Plunderstorm, but doing the awful grind for the rewards.

[bladrick]

Missed the mark - should off had two versions PVP and PVE so all players can have a playstyle that they like. Give PVP mode 10% extra plunder.