World of Warcraft Battlegrounds in Testing

The much anticipated Battlegrounds content is live on the test servers for World of Warcraft. The patch notes for the upcoming game update include class changes and world modifications. From the notes: "The Warsong Gulch and Alterac Valley battlegrounds are now available. The Warsong Gulch entrances may be found in the northern Barrens near the Mor'Shan Rampart (Horde) and south of Silverwing Outpost in Ashenvale (Alliance). The Alterac Valley entrances may be found east of Sofera's Naze in Alterac (Horde), and in the Headlands of Alterac (Alliance)."

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Re:battlegrounds, no thanks

[hab136]

You'd love to play with your friends across the hall, but you can't because they aren't on the same server.

Guild Wars doesn't have that fatal flaw because all characters play on the same "server" so to speak. Not so with World of Warcraft.

True, you can only play with people on the same server. You call it a fatal flaw - I happen to think that it's much nicer to compete against a smaller set of people. I actually have a chance of being in the top 10 on my server, whereas if it was all servers combined, there's be no way.

To use your roommate analogy - You have a good chance of being better than your neighbor. Even a decent chance of being better than your neighborhood. But you've got almost no chance of being better than everyone in the city.

Pros and cons to both approaches.

Re:battlegrounds, no thanks

[patio11]

True enough, but even on our fairly low-population server (hovers Low/Medium in the WoW rankings), we have several hundred people on the Alliance who are more active than me at PVP, and I'd like to think I'd be somewhere on the middle-low end of commitment to PVPing (one or two weeknights and most of Saturday on the typical week). Several hundred teammates and an equal number of opponents, taken 40v40 at a time, is enough variety for anyone. Heck, I played CS for 3 years on a server which had two dozen regulars with perhaps 5 drop-ins every night, and that was still fun. Plus, you get the nice cozy people with people you've hit a few times.

Tourach, by the way, next time you try backstabbing me you'll be eating grass! I have a new Polymorph macro with your name on it -- literally! :)

Too little, too late

[Frodo Crockett]

I quit playing WoW a month ago. Since then I've gone back to playing Diablo 2, which is faster-paced, more fun, less buggy, and free to play online. Blizzard had better work hard on Diablo 3 if they want more of my money.