Battlegrounds

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » December 22, 2004, 4:49 pm

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/battlegrounds.html

Looks good, but it feels like it might just be an area purely for high levels ,PvP wise, quests and all look good, but you'd get ganked by anyone 5 levels higher than you easily.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » December 22, 2004, 5:12 pm

And?

Hehe, seriously, you're probably right, it'll be dangerous for lower levels in there I imagine. But it's not terribly difficult to level up. I think the BGs look great, can't wait to try them out.

Post by **pyrella** » December 22, 2004, 6:50 pm

Lower-level players who wanted to contribute in other ways to the battle could also do so by undertaking PvP-related quests, such as capturing wolves or rams to provide mounts for cavalry charges, claiming a nearby mine and ferrying resources back to the main base to upgrade allied troops, or capturing enemy graveyards to lengthen the run back to the frontlines for revived adversaries.

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » December 22, 2004, 7:09 pm

pyrella wrote:
Lower-level players who wanted to contribute in other ways to the battle could also do so by undertaking PvP-related quests, such as capturing wolves or rams to provide mounts for cavalry charges, claiming a nearby mine and ferrying resources back to the main base to upgrade allied troops, or capturing enemy graveyards to lengthen the run back to the frontlines for revived adversaries.

Aye thats what I was talkin about. But how much chance do say, a group of level 20's have of taking a graveyard from 2 high levels.

Drolgin Steingrinder · December 22, 2004, 7:45 pm

I like that they've taken ideas for this from some of the custom WC maps, I'm looking forward to it.

It'll be interesting to see what the minimum amount of players you need to start an "instance" - I imagine some people will try to dominate it or farm the elite caves repeatedly.

Post by **pyrella** » December 22, 2004, 7:58 pm

Cotto wrote:
pyrella wrote:
Lower-level players who wanted to contribute in other ways to the battle could also do so by undertaking PvP-related quests, such as capturing wolves or rams to provide mounts for cavalry charges, claiming a nearby mine and ferrying resources back to the main base to upgrade allied troops, or capturing enemy graveyards to lengthen the run back to the frontlines for revived adversaries.
Aye thats what I was talkin about. But how much chance do say, a group of level 20's have of taking a graveyard from 2 high levels.

That's a good question, by know PvP resists are hugely differnt from PvE . I know vs. NPC's if it's 3-5 levels above, I'm rarely going to land shit...more than that, I'm not going to at all. However, in some misc Hillsbrad PvP that was going on, I was landing almost every spell on PC's 10-12 levels higher, occasionally for only half damage tho.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » December 22, 2004, 9:05 pm

For clarification, are the battlegrounds only going to be implemented on the PvP servers, or all servers?

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » December 22, 2004, 9:15 pm

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » December 22, 2004, 9:16 pm

Sounds awesome then, I'll be looking forward to it.

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » December 22, 2004, 11:53 pm

pyrella wrote:
Cotto wrote:
pyrella wrote:
Lower-level players who wanted to contribute in other ways to the battle could also do so by undertaking PvP-related quests, such as capturing wolves or rams to provide mounts for cavalry charges, claiming a nearby mine and ferrying resources back to the main base to upgrade allied troops, or capturing enemy graveyards to lengthen the run back to the frontlines for revived adversaries.
Aye thats what I was talkin about. But how much chance do say, a group of level 20's have of taking a graveyard from 2 high levels.

That's a good question, by know PvP resists are hugely differnt from PvE . I know vs. NPC's if it's 3-5 levels above, I'm rarely going to land shit...more than that, I'm not going to at all. However, in some misc Hillsbrad PvP that was going on, I was landing almost every spell on PC's 10-12 levels higher, occasionally for only half damage tho.

Yeah, they seem to have made it so you can take out pretty much anyone if theres a decent force of you. I remember during one raid I managed to take out a ?? troll shammy (I think) just myself..and my bear..and he was busy killing someone else. Still think it'll be hard for lowbies to take places out of others hands. But collecting wolves for mounts for the war effort is pretty neat.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » January 19, 2005, 12:01 am

Part 2 - http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/pvp/batt ... part2.html

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » January 19, 2005, 12:08 am

I am so freakin excited!!

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » January 19, 2005, 11:12 am

I concur. Battlegrounds are going to be teh shit!

The DaoC ones made for some fun but wern't anywhere near as involved as what Blizzard is planning.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » January 19, 2005, 11:25 am

The lower levels going in as support troops are going to get ganked endlessly I'd think.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » January 20, 2005, 2:12 am

my god that sounds so badass

Nick · Post by **Nick** » February 2, 2005, 12:07 am

OK I don't play WoW (yet!) and I think the Battlegrounds look amazing, I couldn't believe how awesome they looked.

Hopefully there will be a good balance inside the Battlegrounds, but is there not a danger of one of the sides just constantly farming/holding the zone (or at least a majority of it)?

Apart from that it looks just about the coolest thing I have seen in an mmog for ages.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » February 2, 2005, 3:37 pm

Teeny, if they let you filthy Euros play on our servers, WW is teh place to be.

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » February 2, 2005, 4:58 pm

Didn't go read it again, but iirc (each?) battleground has a set player limit per "feild". So a 5:1 zergling\horde ratio like we have on WW wouldn't be an issue.

Of course, from what I've seen of the alliance on our server 5:1 would be about even

Nick · Post by **Nick** » February 2, 2005, 10:46 pm

Totally Masteen, Whisperwind is where I would be headed. Sadly it looks like I may have to just stay on a Euro server (the whole CC-paypal-usbillingaddress) sounds so complicated.