So it's basically nothing new, just additional rewards for doing what is already there. Better than nothing I suppose, and may spark some renewed interest in those zone's world pvp.

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The spirit towers reset after a sizeable number of hours. There'll probably be only one or two peak time slots you'll have the opportunity to capture them, unless Blizz has tweaked that and made them much more open to capture.

It's not a daily I can see many people going for at all.

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Maybe this will give all the honor farmers something to do other than going AFK in battlegrounds?

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I don't play for keeps,
I play for BLOOD.

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Nobody really cares about the damage buff in either zone. The spirit towers see a lot of action (at least on Proudmoore) because you need control of them in order to get spirit shards from bosses in the Auchindoun dungeons.

They need to do something similar with Halaa if they want to increase the action there. There are no dungeons in Nagrand, but maybe they could double the drop rate for Oshu'Gun Powder for the faction who controls Halaa (since you need 160 of those for the 18-slot bag). Or maybe increase the rep gain rate for Kurenai/Mag'har, or better yet, put some level 70 PvP gear on the Halaa vendor.

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I'm fairly certain that these quests may have some traffic the first few days that they're out because they're new, but they'll drop off dramatically after that. A daily quest that requires completing an objective that's only available every 6 hours is a daily that won't get completed often/ever. Additionally, unless they start giving a good reason to hold Halaa (or add some better items to the vendors), that daily probably won't see much traffic either.

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If Halaa had better rewards I could see players messing with it. How about X amount of battle tokens for a primal nether.

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On a side note, is that the new Shattered Sun Tabard? If it is, then man, that's a pretty fine looking tabard.

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On my heavily Alliance-dominated server, we Horde take Halaa maybe twice a week — and turnout is generally pretty low. General chat in Nagrand is full of begging and pleading for more to try to wrest Halaa from the dread Alliance. The only people who help are those with lots of Oshu'Gun Powder to turn in and those who are bored. Giving bonus honor might draw in a few more. While not a major change, this should help a bit.

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Just, I'll do these two dailies, if only for fun. World pvp is fun and a great way to get to know people on your server.

Taking one tower is easy, we took all the towers tonight (for kicks). But taking Halaa on an Alliance dominated server can be no fun when outnumbered 5:1, it has to be organized and a fast strike. It's in Alliance's best interest to let us take it, but you know how people are.

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Meh, still nothing to make Zangamarsh PvP worth doing then.

As for Halaa, the best suggestion I've ever seen was that Halaa should contain the only AH in Outlands, and that whoever controls it controls the AH.

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Both halaa and the spririt towers see a lot of action on my server as it is, so I welcome the addition. But I'm frankly a little dissapointed with a headline like that. :p

I still hope they introduce some new and better pvp quests.

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The problem with Halaa is that the current PvP rewards you get from those Badges are sub-70 level items.... mainly Blues, with 1 Resilience Gem and a 18 slot bag...

BEEF UP the rewards for Halaa PvP and more people would take part in it.

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On Azgalor, Horde flips Halaa in the early morning hours fairly regularly with just a couple people and within a few hours or so the Alliance has it back. Outside of a couple bored 70's, there is no PvP involved in the cap. Which pretty much means no one gives a fly pigeon about it.

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How is capturing 1 (one) Spirit Tower in the Bone Wastes worthy of a PvP Daily? Unless I'm misreading something, or unless Blizzard means to change the way it works, you:

1- fly to a tower in the Bone Wastes
2- enable PvP
3 - wait 10 seconds
4 - collect phat lewtz and honor

lol wut?

And as was previously mentioned, the Bone Wastes, once controlled, cannot be retaken for something like 4 hours, right? This is a good thing as it prevents a party entering a dungeon only to lose control of the towers, but this will also prevent people who "miss the window" from achieving this daily.

In essence, this is Blizzard trying to make really crappy World PvP into really crappy World PvP with more rewards.

How about something new and innovative, like adding a special NPC to a particular Factions town/city, and get people to go and raid that city? Hmm?

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200 bonus honor is really not an incentive enough to travel to either zone to see if the towers are available or if Halaa is under attack. I would rather just run another AV or EotS instead.

They need to increase the bonus honor a lot or, as others have suggested, add level 70 armor to the zones to make it worth our effort.

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This will increase the epidemic of Welfare Epics; more people than ever will be in S1 gear, making the S1 gear way too vanilla.

People will raid less, leading to the demise of the casual raider class.

I guess the only way out of this PVP mess that Blizzard has created is an expansion pack that raises the level limit. And all that does is push the problem up in time, where it will rezz itself once a majority of the population is at level 80.

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