WoW: Battleground? Pthh, nothing to it
Lately, I’ve been thinking of joining a battleground. I hesitate because I know absolutely nothing about what goes on in there. Also, I don’t know the time commitment required. I’d hate to leave in the middle. The fact I’ve never done any PvP would seem a disadvantage as well.
Sunday I signed into a battleground queue with my 35 Priest. It was five minutes or so before I was invited to join a battle. After a moments hesitation, I joined and found myself in a room, alone. Oddly, I wasn’t in a group; I would have thought that would be automatic. To my left, a stairway up. To my right a doorway. Well, I can’t stand here forever, I’ve got to look around.
A window pops up saying the battle is over, Alliance won… That was quicker than I expected. The window had tabs I could use to see the people who were in the instance, how they did in the battle and their scores. All the Horde side were Shaman except for myself and an undead Priest. Hey, I had 300 points.
On my return to the city, one of the Warrior trainers, in the room where you sign up for the battleground, had a question mark over his head. I received experience for a quest completed from him. I haven’t been back yet, but this battleground stuff is a lot easier than I’d thought.
July 5th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
You joined at the end because someone dropped out, it’s not normally like that.
To answer your questions WSG takes about half an hour max, it’s just the queue that can take time. Try to go in busy server times i.e Evenings, weekends because the queue will be much faster.
It’s basically fast and furious with a lot of deaths, WSG is 10 per side, capture the flag three times game. You start at your base and have to get their flag and bring it back to your base without losing your flag.
It’s level grouped so 10-19, 20-29, 30-39 etc go in to their own versions of it. Therefore it’s best to go in at the higher levels in the range.
General form is a load of people running round like headless chickens with minimal (or zero) co-operation, and the winning side is normally the one that can actually manage to sort out some basic working together.
Regardless of winning/losing it’s great fun if you have a spare half an hour, and it teaches you a different way of fighting. For example most people use fear sparingly when running instances, cause those mobs will return with adds, in PvP battlegrounds it’s often used.