Level 60 Battleground experience
by Josh Owens 
Dec 6th 2005 at 11:55PM
Today brought our first day of readers and with it, a whole slew of comments! Keep 'em coming in guys, we love the conversations that are going on. One conversation in particular has piqued my interest (probably because it was my post getting flamed). That being said, here is what came of the constructive conversation. The talk was about level 60 players and how they are expected to be lumped in with better equipped level 60 players (tier-2 epics) when the little guy barely has time to earn all of those rare pieces of equipment that he is polishing. Here were the top 3 posted by Chris Gardener.1.) If a team queues up, they should face another team, not a group of pickup players. This would encourage more skilled players to compete against one another.
2.) Battleground queues, in general, should organize games based on rank. Currently, a rank 14 (the highest level) can be put against a rank 1 (just starting). A better system would try to match rank 14s against other rank 14s, similar to how they do it in Warcraft 3 and Halo 2.
3.) There should be tournaments so the best teams face each other. As it stands right now, it's like the Yankees competing against T-ball.
We would love to hear more thoughts on this matter from you guys - tell us your BG experiences!
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Insider Business
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Naked Dec 7th 2005 2:35AM
On high-population servers, that would be amazing. I'd vote for it any day of the week. On low-pop servers like Bonechewer, though, we have a hard enough time waiting for a single AV match w/o any added constraints. : (
Chris Gardner Dec 7th 2005 9:40AM
I agree population is a factor. On my main server, Medivh, Alliance outnumber Horde almost 3:1. This means excessively long battleground queues.
The solution would be to have cross-realm battleground queues, an idea Blizzard has been toying around with forever, according to the community managers.
amorson Dec 7th 2005 12:53PM
On my server I can wait forever for a battle to start, on weekends it's usually better but on some weekday nightes there is not even a single battle.
syco Dec 7th 2005 1:54PM
BG is a joke. I'm this close to yelling in the prep room "Hey. Let's try stategy for once".
I've never been in a match where the Alliance won. Ever. Because the A's are always just bumrushing the Horde, and they get slaughtered. If rank is any indication the Horde has practiced veterens in it every single time. I don't know exactly how sad that is, that someone would do that more than a couple of times, but I imagine winning helps with the motivation...