Upcoming Changes to Battlegrounds

[Oninuva]

Today Zarhym announced upcoming plans to change how Battlegrounds and Honor farming works. With the changes to the emblem system and LFG system making it easier to get PvE gear, they plan to increase the amount of honor you get per game to make gear more accessible and also adding the Random Battleground system. The patch is currently available for testing on the PTR. Hopefully these changes are part of the overall changes Blizzard plans for Battlegrounds in Cataclysm.

Some other changes that are planned;

* Removal of the Marks of Honor. All items that currently require Marks of Honor will be changed to reflect the new changes.
* The Battleground Holiday’s well be named Call to Arms. Playing these battlegrounds will result in bonus rewards in honor.

* Winning a Call to Arms Battleground for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
* Additional Call to Arms Battleground victories after the first win for a player that day will award them with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
* Losing a Call to Arms Battleground will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.




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WOOOT NO MORE HONOR GRIND LOL :nuts::nuts::nuts:

 

[SafeFail]

Eh, makes the grindings less fun. Now I'm going to have so much excess honor with these changes.

 

[Oninuva]

Make's it that much easier for me to play the Flavor of the Month for PvP

 

[SafeFail]

If only the changes would actually grant you free honorable kills that would be applied to your lifetime, I'd definately be very satisfied with the changes. Nothing feels better than seeing over 1000 kills in a single day.

 

[Oninuva]

Haha, true

 

[punwisp]

actually this is extremely good

This means Horde or alliance always winning won't mean shit much anymore, because there tossing the marks of honor.

 

[Dakho]

This is nice, as I'm pretty casual when it comes to PvPing.

 

[Oninuva]

Isle of Conquest & Eye of the Storm will be deserted.

 

[Dakho]

Considering the BGs will be random, now there won't be any deserted battlegrounds.