Patch 1.12: Undocumented Changes
by Elizabeth Harper 
Jul 18th 2006 at 4:00PM
Another patch, and another set of changes that didn't quite make it into the patch notes. Of course, everything on the test realms is subject to change, but as it stands, this is what you will find on the test realms. This list seems to be updated regularly, so if you aren't planning on playing on the test realms, check back often to see what's happening. Most controversial of these changes seems to be a battlegrounds change that automatically adds everyone to a group upon entering a battleground - a group they cannot leave. As a healer, I am always glad to have a group in battlegrounds in order to be better able to monitor my group's health and step in as needed - but to those who preferred to gain maximum honor per kill by attacking battlegrounds ungrouped, this is the end of the battlegrounds system. 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
hikaru Jul 18th 2006 8:02PM
zero sympathy.
solo farming for honor while everyone else tries to win the match is exactly like sitting back, afk leeching xp, or being a caster and wanding your way through instances.
get the hell off the team.
dj Jul 18th 2006 9:23PM
Every Horde PUG i have ever played with has always grouped in BGs.
Finnicks Daerkhiv Jul 19th 2006 2:35AM
I'm stoked about the Voidwalker and Succubus talking.
I wonder what they have to say at long last? What personality has each been given?
And when oh when are they going to let us Warlocks learn to speak Demonic again!?
Luka Jul 19th 2006 2:53AM
at last!
Like hikaru, I hate the many people who think they'll get more CP by not joining a team.
I'm a druid, I love healing, I love healing in BG, but I had to enforce a "no group = no heal" policy in order to form a group in PuG (and it woked something like 30% of the time, stupid Alliance noobs).
So far it's the best news about BG in the patch, far ahead of XBGs :)
Nanatsusaya Jul 19th 2006 3:09AM
*nods* Pretty much in agreement here; it sucks being a holy priest and not getting grouped and then getting bitched at for not healing o.O This way everyone gets (a chance of being) healed and I don't have to spend half the game nagging someone in /y
Also, ingame keybinding for Mac iTunes :) No more windowing to skip tracks :)
Finnicks Daerkhiv Jul 19th 2006 3:27AM
But the burning question is, Nanatsuaya...
Why is the song in your playlist if you're going to skip it?
Relmstein Jul 19th 2006 9:53AM
I have to aggree a forced raid in the battlegrounds can only be a good thing. Nothing worse then a small group of players going off on their own to get honor instead of trying to win the match.
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Nanatsusaya Jul 19th 2006 10:50AM
I have a PvP playlist, but I have skip the Japanese rock songs if my girlfriend is about ;)
Cava Jul 19th 2006 11:18AM
Hikaru your a fool and so narrow minded.
BG's that are 10 man ok yes group system good.
40 man BG...Group=bad for Hk's. You are a fool to think anyone is leeching if they decline raid invites such as myself.
Last night I was getting 200+ honor a kill. Without being in raid sharing anything. I do my part ...I Kill. I flag capture. SHut down healers in the back line. IS this leeching? Hell no. Im doing my job and my part.
To be foreced to share all my efforts in the kill with some Lemming mindless zerg Raid pisses me off. Nobody is helping me..buffing me ..nor healing me or able to heal me. Im deep behind the enemy swarm Picking off healers and mages. Why must I share my labors with the raid?
Screw 40 man Bg's after this. I made a lot of honor in there solo. Thanks to this news...that's flushed.