Holla for Halaa
by Mike Schramm 
Aug 18th 2007 at 3:45PM
Blizzard has posted a helpful page of tips on how to run, in my opinion, the best setup of organized World PvP so far: Halaa, the conquerable city in Nagrand.The tips are pretty straightforward: stick together (team-- where's my CS homies at?), do as much bombing as you can before heading into the town, and make sure, once you've liberated Halaa from its evil oppressors, that you stick around to keep control and defend against any counterattacks. One thing I like about Halaa is that the Wyverns make it super easy for even lower geared players to join the fight and make a real difference. Plus, the layout is done well, and I like, as we heard at BlizzCon, that Blizzard went with a pretty persistent reward-- it's no fun to conquer something just to lose it again in 5 minutes.
And Halaa, surely, will serve as a model for the next big noninstanced PvP zone coming in Wrath of the Lich King, Lake Wintergrasp. Blizzard hasn't actually designed the zone yet, but they did share their goals with us-- multiple targets and rewards, a persistent effect, and of course while Halaa doesn't have them, siege weapons will make an appearance as well.
So if you haven't tried Halaa yet, definitely check it out. From everything we've heard, this kind of thing is the future of where World PvP is headed.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, Quests, Expansions, The Burning Crusade, NPCs, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mainstay Aug 18th 2007 5:41PM
Halaa is a really nice concept, unfortunately on both the servers I play it's Alliance controlled 23 hours out of every day. The Horde pretty much has to stealth steal it late in the evening to have it at all due to population imbalance.
RogueJedi86 Aug 18th 2007 6:43PM
Luckily the PvP servers tend to have a more balanced Alliance-Horde ratio.
Mark Aug 18th 2007 6:47PM
On undermine Halla is in alliance hands 24/7...if one hordie even approaches halla 500 alliance go crazy and corpse camp for hours. Halla blows ass...if this is what they got for world pvp in the expansion it will only be for pvp servers.
Tumples Aug 18th 2007 6:49PM
@Mark - They go crazy cos they like to feel like they are winning :)
RogueJedi86 Aug 18th 2007 7:27PM
I guess the old adage is true: if you want PvP, go to a PvP server. If you try it on PvE, you gotta deal with the terribly skewed faction imbalance.
Elra Aug 19th 2007 7:29AM
i never manage to drop 10 bombs into halaa, sure 9 is easy if you hotkey them and throw behind you. but the tenth alwyas goes spare. i use it for suprising rogues at landing site :o
PyroAmos Aug 19th 2007 8:28AM
terrokar is better.... halaa is better put together, but theres no timer, as soon as you take it, its under attack.