Cataclysm to bring region-wide battlegrounds
by Alex Ziebart 
Jun 11th 2010 at 9:00AM
How this managed to slip past us, we'll never know. Wednesday night, Kalgan (also known as Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton) hit the official forums to drop some news regarding rated battlegrounds in Cataclysm.
KalganWe're currently expecting both normal and rated battlegrounds to be cross-battlegroup (within a region) for the launch of Cataclysm. So, players queueing from anywhere in North America (for example) could play vs players on any North American battlegroup, etc. This applies to all regions, not just North America.
Yes, battlegrounds will no longer be locked to battlegroups in the coming expansion. The pool of players to pull from is going to grow dramatically with this change, which can only be a good thing. It also has interesting implications for PvE content. Cross-realm battlegrounds came long before cross-realm 5-mans via the dungeon finder, so cross-battlegroup battlegrounds could potentially suggest that the dungeon finder will pull from the entire region eventually as well. With the Battle.net revamp and the incoming Real ID features, what realm we play on may become less and less relevant for anything but the guild we're in and which faction holds Tol Barad.
[via World of Raids]
Filed under: News items, PvP, Cataclysm
Reader Comments (Page 5 of 5)
Vaeku Jun 11th 2010 1:40PM
This is good for twinks, though I don't particularly like it for reasons that other people have said... You get to know certain people from your battlegroup, and you love to hate them.
I just hope it's not extended to 5-mans.
Shelly Jun 11th 2010 10:10PM
Absolutely great for twinks.
and those 6-15 ab brackets level 30-60 games, here is to putting them in the past as well.
tehaxe Jun 11th 2010 4:01PM
OMG!! i cant wait! I might get a chance to play with my Hispanic friends from ragnaros and QT!!
Badpriesty Jun 11th 2010 4:07PM
if this works... and I pray it does, Blizz probably just guaranteed themselves a whole bunch-load more of my money.
newyorkwku Jun 11th 2010 4:13PM
I didn't roll alliance...
Bru Jun 11th 2010 5:40PM
Is there any word at all of this eventually leading to grouping with friends on your realid list, regardless of the realm they're on? If I missed it, I'm sorry, but this is one thing that would quite literally make cataclysm an instant buy for me
I have a lot of friends spread out across many servers. I have 2 level 80 horde, a few more horde in the 70s, and a few alliance in the 70s. I'd be willing to level them -all- if it meant that I could group with whoever happened to be on, because quite frankly, I'm tired of chasing friends all over the place when they decide they need a change of venue. I'm not made of money.
Lemons Jun 11th 2010 6:38PM
wow, this will make my bg que times a lot faster! I can't wait!
Joker Jun 11th 2010 8:33PM
Canadians are bad enough but now i have to put up with more of the lesser countries.../sigh
Another sign of Blizz ruining WoW.
tehaxe Jun 11th 2010 10:18PM
wow... why so much hate on wow's spanish community? heck just cause we speak another language it doesn't give you the right to think that you're any better than we are.. douche..
Joker Jun 11th 2010 10:34PM
@tehaxe, actually i meant Europe and Canada, the places that do
nothing but whine like little girls in WoW.
The Spanish didn't cross my mind, sucks that you think of your people
that way tho.
Rajinnu Jun 12th 2010 3:14AM
Nice
Endless Jun 12th 2010 6:47AM
This is a good thing. I hated being stuck with nothing but smelly PvP-realm inhabitants in my battlegroup. Now I finally have an equal chance of fighting some normal people as well. :-)