End of Wintersgrasp boxing?

[Fat Tire]

Wintergrasp

• To provide players with a more transparent notification of when
  Wintergrasp battles occur, as well as better control zone population
  and stability, several changes have been made.
• Players now have the option to queue for Wintergrasp from a Wintergrasp Battlemaster in
  any capital city or by simply entering the Wintergrasp zone.
• Queuing will begin 15 minutes before each battle. If chosen, you will
  automatically be teleported to the zone. Any players in the zone who
  have not been chosen from the queue will be teleported out when the
  battle begins.
• The queue system remains active for the entire battle. As soon as a player leaves, a new one will be chosen from the queue.
• Trying to enter Wintergrasp during an active battle for which you have not
  been chosen will teleport you out. Please note that, as you are now
  able to fly over Wintergrasp, you will only be teleported out if you
  try to land and join the battle.
• Level 80 players get higher
  priority in the queue than lower level players. In addition, a random
  selection of queued players will be taken from both the Battlemasters
  and the zone itself.
• The queue will accept up to 100 players from each faction, resulting in a maximum battle of 200 players at a time.

[Sajuuk]

Possibly, but I wouldn't worry about it too much. It sounds like they're trying to do something about the horrible lag that some realms have.

[Gares]

Yeah I really usually only see like 80+ people from each faction on my server anyways except maybe weekend nights. Even then most people stroll in late to the battleground anyways.

I think this is trying to limit the lag somewhat as well as another problem that has plagued BG's since their inception.

[Perrigrin]

Horde side on CoA have at least 2 raids full before most battles, so guessing it will be hard to get in on my realm

[Mokoi]

"join as group"

?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Horde side on CoA have at least 2 raids full before most battles, so guessing it will be hard to get in on my realm

Heh, the alliance on my server are gonna hate this. Horde usually has 1.5 raids ready to go for this and we're outnumbered about 3.6:1. :P

[Caspian]

Alliance on my server usually had 4 full raid groups anywhere close to peak time. Horde only has 3, and they only have 18-32 people in each :/

This annoys me. It turns WG into another battle ground. I am curious to see how they are going to do groups? 100 people is 2 1/2 raids. are they going to force people into that? Are they going to change how the quests work?

[pinotnoir]

The end of boxing wg unless all your toons get the que.

[Fat Tire]

if you horde then no worries, if you alliance then you might have to worry.

Also in general since on avg alliance have more scrubs getting into bg in general. Will alliance ever win again?


In addition, a random selection of queued players will be taken from both the Battlemasters and the zone itself.


The word random I think tells alot.

[Bettysue]

This would be an okay change of they made WG games happen more often but maybe have a 2-3 hour debuff once you've been active in a battle, otherwise it's gonna be the same people over and over in a game I think, even with the random selection process.