Battlegroup changes in anticipation of complete merger
by Matthew Rossi 
Oct 27th 2010 at 6:30PM
CM Lylirra announced these changes and addressed some bugs to the process that are making it impossible to queue for BGs, which will hopefully be straightened out. Still, bugs aside, the first step of eventually allowing an entire region to be selected from for PvP and PvE seems really exciting to me and very positive overall. Finally, I'll get to farm all the disparate old friends I have on like 20 servers! A frabjous day, all told.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Jamie Oct 27th 2010 6:36PM
4 things are certain in life; death, taxes, you'll probably get _that_ dungeon/BG 5 times in a row again, and the other side always wins.
Gannik Nov 17th 2010 9:49PM
That'd be nice eventually.
That way Bloodlust Alliance won't be ROFLstomped and HK farmed, in Alterac Valley 95% of the time!
waycooler Oct 27th 2010 6:42PM
The return of twinks is nigh!
I hope, anyways.
Justin Oct 27th 2010 6:43PM
Once this happens, I hope that we'll be allowed to group up with our RealID friends for instances. I server transferred to be in my current guild, but I've got a few friends on my old server I'd love to queue with, as well as one IRL friend on yet another server who's the best healer I know.
Derek Oct 27th 2010 8:32PM
I second this a thousand times over! I have friends (in real life) who I started WoW to play with, and yet they can't stop changing server to get into the next "great" guild. >:3 Their solution? Well, transfer over one of your 80's as well or just level up a new 80 alt (Am I the only one who doesn't have time to level an 80 every other week?). I've tried both, but time limits / cost of transfer -- not to mention leaving low-level alts on the same server largely unplayed -- have made this difficult. So, instead of raiding with my friends, I have to content myself with redoing Azuremyst / Durotar / whatever for the 10th time with them. If I could just pick four friends off of RealID and invite them regardless of server (even if I were still limited by faction), I'd get up and do my happy dance right here and now (at work)!
Cassie Oct 27th 2010 9:28PM
I third this even more!! My WoW friends play on Suramar, Gilneas, Twisting Nether, Bloodhoof... I can't keep up with everyone! Being able to group cross-realms like that would be AWESOME.
Narlic Nov 3rd 2010 7:40PM
Am I too late to fourth this?
jfofla Oct 27th 2010 6:55PM
I did not know this was coming!
This is as fantastic as the LFD system!
Cassie Oct 27th 2010 6:56PM
"Oh frabjous day, caloo calay!" he chortled in his joy...
Dboy Oct 27th 2010 7:47PM
And off we go 'galumphing' into our next Battleground, 'vorpal sword[s]' ringing 'snicker-snack'!
Cassie Oct 27th 2010 9:25PM
Those slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe... and boy, those borogroves sure were mimsy!
windstalker668 Oct 28th 2010 1:05AM
Ha! My Biochem professor really loves memorization and we had to memorize a stanza of that poem to get some extra credit on an exam.
kooda Oct 27th 2010 6:56PM
Yay less incompetent people from
(cutaia) Oct 27th 2010 7:03PM
Yippee! Blueberry pancakes are
Iirdan Oct 27th 2010 7:39PM
Damn it, who let Candlejack loo
kooda Oct 28th 2010 5:16AM
Thats my ipod touch at it's finest, breaking everything I made sure was fine.
Sathias Oct 27th 2010 7:00PM
I wonder how this will affect people on Oceanic realms... being that we are a pseudo-geographical area, server wise.
Eternauta Oct 27th 2010 7:34PM
The same that happens with latin american realms, they're both considered to be on the North America continent, since the servers they use are located on the US.
BTW, that's also the reason why you can't transfer characters from US servers to EU servers and viceversa. It has to do with the physical location of the servers.
Merus Oct 27th 2010 10:26PM
We'll probably end up grouping with other Oceanic players because when we go matchmaking, the only people on are probably going to come from that area.
Latin America is in trouble though.
RAEGLATEM Oct 27th 2010 7:05PM
A frabjous day indeed.