Upcoming Battleground Changes

[Fat Tire]

I wonder if they're doing this to find out if they have a BG version of oculus (i.e.: one that everyone /afk's out of immediately). :P

Isle of shit


Everyone will random on this BG holiday.

[Ogloo]

This sounds like its gunna be fun.

[Mystic]

My least favorite is Strand of the Ancients. On the joy scale it is much less than Isle of Conquest.

[Gramzngunz]

This sounds like its gunna be fun.

Why did you server transfer Og?!?! Was it something I said? lol

[Fursphere]

I think this will make ALL BGs much more populated. Instead of mindlessly grinding AV - you're going to get flavor in all BGs - and players of all skill levels all over the place.

It might kill premades too, as you won't get a bonus if you skip the random.

Now they just need a "queue me up for a random whatever" option - meaning instance OR battleground.

[Gormand]

*sigh* now I wish I had chosen to play through my mages from 60 instead of my PvE team first.

I hope they do increase the maximum honour you can have, otherwise the cost of items are just going to cap out at 75k

On that note, it may be worth farming BGs now for tokens, some of the more expensive token items(IE Mounts) may end up being much lower in cost when the change hits and so the honour gained from the tokens may be worth it.
At the very least it will be a bunch of free gems when the change hits.

[drevil]

av zerg incoming...

[lans83]

They shouldn't take away the marks. Instead, they should add more shit for you to use them for. This way there would be more BGs up while leveling up. Now everyone will focus more on grinding AV and WG instead of hitting up the others while leveling. If they'd add more gear for you to purchase with these marks, or incorporate them more into the game, then maybe you'd see more people running BGs. I know while leveling up my teams, I'd constantly check to see if any where running, so I'd have something other than questing to get me leveled up. Sadly, the time of day I was/am always on sucks for running BGs cause there's never any up for the brackets between 20-60. They should add a long ass quest chain for the pvp aspect where you'd have to collect both honor and marks to turn in to complete the quests, like collection quests we have now, but aimed at PvP instead. I've suggested this on the forums, but yet people wanted to flame it, those that did respond. Plus, this could also reward players with more shit that can only be gained from PvP instead of just the endgame gear or what there is now. Maybe new titles, mounts, non combat pets, something along those lines.

[Mosg2]

I love these changes. It's going to pay out to just que up for the randoms--You're basically going to be getting at least double the honor you are now. Double for kills and the objective's values were a number of kills which he said are also doubled. Plus you get the bonus for random que'ing!

I see this as the first step towards rated battlegrounds. I foresee them implementing a rating based off of how many wins/losses you have while random que'ing. It'd be easy for them to track objectives too.

[Littleburst]

Aparantly you didnt read it entirely.
They explain in the 2nd walloftext about how honor gained from objectives is based upon a honorkill count.
Meaning that while they up the honor rewarded for a honor kill they are ALSO upping the honor reward for getting an objective.

That's true, but if you get rewarded 30 HK's for winning a BG, who's gonna bother running the flag/defending a base then if you can easily farm 60 HK's in the battle instead of caring about the objective. I'm aware that it fails a bit, since you also get honor from capping the flag, but i do think that is how most people will think. Especially since you're not guaranteed that you win the battle, where your HK's are guaranteed honor.