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The State of PvP: Unavailable Rewards, Mass Reports, Boosting, Exploits & Bugs
PvP in The War Within has been received positively by the community; however, there appear to be several unresolved issues. In this post, we highlight unobtainable rewards, exploits, and other player concerns affecting the PvP experience.
Unavailable Rewards
Solo Shuffle Medic: The War Within and
Battleground Blitz Medic: The War Within were introduced in this expansion to encourage healers to queue for solo PvP modes. Both achievements are currently marked unobtainable, which is likely an oversight from when all Feats of Strength for Season 1 were flagged the same way. As a result, the associated toy pennants are also unavailable at the moment.
These achievements can be tracked with the following script:
/run C_ContentTracking.ToggleTracking(2,40792,2)
/run C_ContentTracking.ToggleTracking(2,40795,2)
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Solo Shuffle Medic: The War Within Win 100 Solo Shuffle rounds as a Healer at or above Rival I during The War Within.
Reward:
Unbound Legend's Pennant
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From the what-if department: In February tech journalist Nicholas Carr published Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.
A University of Virginia academic journal says the book "appraises the past and present" of information technology while issuing "a warning about its future." And specifically Carr argues that the government ignored historic precedents by not regulating the early internet sometime in the 1990s.
But as he goes on to remind us, the early 1990s were also when the triumphalism of America's Cold War victory, combined with the utopianism of Silicon Valley, convinced a generation of decision-makers that "an unfettered market seemed the best guarantor of growth and prosperity" and "defending the public interest now meant little more than expanding consumer choice." So rather than try to anticipate the dangers and excesses of commercialized digital media, Congress gave it free rein in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which, as Carr explains,
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