05-24-2005, 02:40 PM
A few comments on the 40 v 40 Alterac Valley battleground
First it's certainly possible to drop in and drop out. If there are 40 of you and someone goes then after a is he really gone or just ld? pause they shunt the next person in the queue into your team
Each side gets massive support in defence from the NPCs and terrain features so on the admittedly rather uncoordinated Test battles it didn't make a huge difference whether you were trying your heart out or miles behind the line looking at herb spawns (I found)
Next, and this may be intentional or it may be something they address before it goes Live, you can't pick teams. So if your pro 40 man raid joins a battle they won't all get into the same battleground. Now there are options in the join screen to pick a specific battle rather than just next available so you could probably get most of your people into the same battle if you accepted a longer wait
There's a huge amount of scope for being an effective participant and you can certainly drop in and have fun if you only have an hour free
I thought it a very exciting and very fun addition but then I'm quite pumped about the game in general. I don't know if they will change things for you, Alarick, especially since your issues seem to be as much about items as gameplay and battlegrounds isn't going to improve your stuff
First it's certainly possible to drop in and drop out. If there are 40 of you and someone goes then after a is he really gone or just ld? pause they shunt the next person in the queue into your team
Each side gets massive support in defence from the NPCs and terrain features so on the admittedly rather uncoordinated Test battles it didn't make a huge difference whether you were trying your heart out or miles behind the line looking at herb spawns (I found)
Next, and this may be intentional or it may be something they address before it goes Live, you can't pick teams. So if your pro 40 man raid joins a battle they won't all get into the same battleground. Now there are options in the join screen to pick a specific battle rather than just next available so you could probably get most of your people into the same battle if you accepted a longer wait
There's a huge amount of scope for being an effective participant and you can certainly drop in and have fun if you only have an hour free
I thought it a very exciting and very fun addition but then I'm quite pumped about the game in general. I don't know if they will change things for you, Alarick, especially since your issues seem to be as much about items as gameplay and battlegrounds isn't going to improve your stuff