Battleground info...

[TiG]

Battleground info

Sounds like they've thought through the join process

TiG

[Allen]

Any chance of a Copy & Paste please?

[TiG]

The following is a step by step process document to provide more information regarding the battlegrounds queue system. The battlegrounds are instanced, and have a limit as to how many players can enter, though this number is unique for each battleground. Thus, we have implemented a system to allow players to play in whichever battleground they choose, or join their friends in a specific battleground instance.

1. You join the battleground queue by running into a swirling red portal. Alliance can only go into the Alliance portal, and Horde only into Horde portal, and each faction will have their own entrance, protected by NPCs.

2. Once you run into the red portal, a dialogue box appears with the following:

# First Available – Go into any instance as soon as a spot becomes available.
# Alterac Valley 1 – Choose the instance you want to join. Could result in longer wait time
# Alterac Valley 2
# Etc

The numbers indicate the instance, so that players inside the instance can let their friends know which instance to enter.

3. After you select an option, you are in the queue, and a battle standard icon will appear in the lower left area of the minimap, letting you know your queue status. By right clicking this icon, you can either change the instance you want to join, or leave the queue completely.

4. While you are in a queue, you are free to go wherever and do whatever. You do not have to be in a certain area. Once you are ready to join, you will be teleported into the battleground from any location in the world.

5. If it is your turn to join the battleground, a popup dialogue box will appear asking whether you are ready to join, or if you want to hide the dialogue box. If you click Hide, you will have 10 minutes total to choose whether to join the battle, or leave completely. Again, these options will be available through the battle standard icon.

**If you are in a queue for one battleground, and travel to another battleground and enter the queue there, the new queue will replace the old one, and you will lose your chance to participate in the first battleground.

Continuous improvement

The dev team still considers the battlegrounds to be in “beta”. The current step is to open them up for public feedback, and based on feedback and analysis of their performance in the public test realms, the dev team will make further improvements to each battleground.

Grouping in Battlegrounds

One item that is still in development, is group battle functionality. Currently, if you are grouped and one person in the group attempts to join a battleground, all members of the group will be in line to join the same battleground. There is no guarantee that all members of your group will be able to join the same instance. This and more advanced group battle features are being worked on for future updates.

[Allen]

Oooh, sounds good! But they're for over level 55's aren't they? Not that I'd stand much chance in them anyway!

BUT, saying that, hopefully they'll take some load of the main servers, so the rest of us can play freely without too much lag, and those on PvP servers should have less ganking going on, and probably a little less fear whilst running around questing. Bring it on!

[TiG]

lvl 50+ yeah i'm afraid so. But you are pushing along well Allen, lvl 37 now right?...

40 is when mages really start to become massively powerful... and you should hopefully fly along..

TiG

[Mblaster]

Yeah, looks great, and it'll be good for the horde to have a balenced fight for once!

I would guess that they'll be released in three weeks from the test realms appearing (I thinks that's gonna be within a week) so there should be time to level up

Get instant AE on your mage an go do some AoE grinding

[ERU]

I'm deffo gonna have to try this

[Proplus]

I've never followed up on what this Battleground thing is, so is it like a one on one fight then?

[Dooms]

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/pvp/battlegrounds.html