Patch 1.4.0 out

[MongoJerry]

Real PvP will be on the Battlegrounds.

I can't agree with you more there. It's stupid that they introduced the honor system without battlegrounds. What was fun about playing on the PvP server was that you could still outdoor quest while still having those occational spontaneous PvP battles to spice things up. Before, most of the bored level 60's ran instances over and over (or started alts or stopped playing altogether), so they were mostly occupied out of the main world. This limited PvP battles to areas near instance portals, on the trail toward instance portals, or in areas where people generally questing the same area (and therefore were roughly the same level) had skirmishes. Now the honor system just dumped a huge load of bored 60's out all over the outdoor areas. You just might as well forget questing in either of the Plaguelands, Winterspring, and I assume Felwood, Un'Goro Crater and Silithus. And as if it wasn't hard enough for Horde players to quest in Hillsbrad, they might as well just forget the zone altogether now. Blizzard has got to introduce Battlegrounds as quickly as possible just to get those bored level 60's out of the outdoor world. Yes, it'll still be more viscious on the PvP servers than it was before the patch, but at least the situation could then stabilize to something a little more reasonable.

There are still things I really like about the PvP server even in its current shark frenzy state. I'm just waiting for the next time Azuregos appears. Before, things were frenetic as it was with battles of 120-150 people either trying to kill Azuregos or trying to prevent Azuregos from being killed. (Both so that they could have the hope of stealing the tap and because they just don't want the other faction to have the honor and loot from the kill). With the PvP system in place now, it's going to be insane, because people will show up just to rack up PvP points. I'll bet at least 300 people will show up once word leaks out about Azuregos being up. Of course, the end result will always be the same -- a server crash -- but it'll still be insane to be a part of it.