I think a good idea would be to have different maps for each BG like arena, I really hate AV but love the other's i think that AV wouldnt be so bad if people actually played and didnt stand on the roads waiting for fights as far as i know there is no advantage to fighting on roads.

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We already know what kind of battleground we're getting in WotLK. They've said it'll be an invasion D-Day style scenario, and since they're taking their BG ideas from shooters it'll probably be like Assault mode in Unreal Tournament.

But I have a feeling we'll be getting more than one anyway.

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you turned alliance and horde signs around :/

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As a hunter, the idea of an urban warfare style battleground just makes me sad in the pants.

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The new BG, though only fragmented overviews and maybe one or two videos, looks interesting so far as an up hill battle complete will many a wall and gate blocking the way. This, i think at least, adds some viability to the idea of a new assault BG. Also I saw some pics for a "reskinned" Ab where everythings snowy. Same BG and lay out and all that but its christmas time in arathi.

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You are correct #2 there is no advantage to fighting on the road. Such as scattering their forces, breaking momentum, or delaying reinforcements. Defense in depth has surly never worked. imo.

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I love AB, enjoy AV and EotS, and hate WSG. I like battlegrounds where the goals are achievable through coordinated work (though I never play premades), and in which I get to do some fighting.

This is what I'd like to see more of in a new BG. The current battlegrounds are designed around strategic thinking, only fighting the enemy when you have a large advantage in numbers. Therefore, while the was might be fair, all the individual battles are lopsided. If you're on defense and outnumbered, you can delay the enemy, but you seldom can defeat them.

My best BG fights have been in AV when the entite Horde and Alliance forces converge on a single chokepoint, and the battle becomes a fight of inches. We move forward a bit, the enemy pushes us back, and the fight is won on kills, not NPC kills.

I'd like to see one battleground that eliminates the gimmicks of towers and flags and resources and gives a pure, even fight. My dream BG would be a long canyon, like thousand needles, or a troll city. Allies would be at one end, Horde at the othere, and there would be effectively one path, one chokepoint. This could be an elaborate path, with nooks for ambushes and bridges and overhangs for sniping, but it should be impossible to avoid the enemy.

This BG would have a simple point structure - in the middle of the screen is a bar (like the tower capture bars in EotS), with Alliance on one side, Horde on the other. Every time a Horde kills an Ally, the bar moves to their side, and every time an Ally kills a Horde, it would move tthe other way. The first team to get the bar all the way to their side wins. Bonus points given for doing this quickly, and if there is no winner after 20 minutes, the points go to whichever team is closest. This would be fun as a 40 v 40 match.

This distills PVP to the purest element - killing more of them than they kill of you, in a fair fight.

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I'd like to see something like Grand Theft Auto SA's turf wars.

You have a map with small areas controlled by the factions, with a larger number of neutral spaces in the middle. Initial captures of neutral land are done by timer (like how you get the nodes in EotS, except faster). You capture enemy territory by killing the opponent in that space, or by standing in enemy territory for long periods unmolested. Each enemy kill in territory you control gives your side more control and makes it harder for your opponent to take it away. Victory is archived when one side gains a majority of the board. Each segment has some environmental quirks - water hazards, damage-causing spouts (steam or fire or something), open lava, houses, ect. Some scattered powerups - life refills, berzerker rage, ect. exist on the board.

I would see this as a 20-person engagement, 10 per side. It's kinda like Risk a little bit.

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I'd like to see a team deathmatch game backed up by squads of NPCs on a decent respawn timer, so they attack in waves. Seems fitting for the war zones there already are for Wrath.

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I would simply like to see a big arena deathmatch! ;)

Basically any kind of map, but no real objectives other than to kill the other fraction. Respawn times will grow over time, you really don't want to die! Also, your durability falls as you are fighting, so within 5 mins your down to 0% and need to go back to your base for a free repair. (of course at the end of the match everyone's durability will be restored to what ever it was before they entered.)

Basically like a war, and you could use the siege weapons we are getting to knock down the shelter buildings which the other team is repairing in....if more than X members are dead at the same time, the other team wins!

What do ya think?

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I know it won't happen for awhile, if ever, but I'd be glad to see Azshara Crater finished and available.

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Headquarters like in Call of Duty.
setting: Urban
a object spawns on a random place in the map and you have to find the place and keep it as long as possible for your team (you get points for the length of time you keep it)

the other team has to try to destroy the item.

when the item has been destroyed a new one spawns.

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I love the IDEA of Alterac Valley, and I regret I wasn't really high enough to play in AV before the changes. I recognize why they were done, but AV now is no longer a strategic chessboard with in-BG quests, turn-ins, trade-offs and coordinated attacks - it's simply a race to take towers, kill sub-bosses, and then finish off the enemy's leader. It's still a battleground I can be relatively proficient at while in PvE spec, but it's a pale shadow of its former self.

I would love for any new battleground to have some (or a lot!) of what the original Alterac Valley had that made it more of a "battle" and less of an big arena.

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Love AB and EotS, hate WSG, ish about AV.

Theres some overhead maps of the new BG floating around, looks like a semi-straight valley with three paths. Kind of like DotA.

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