For those of you who care, I play on the European server, Bronzebeard. For those of you who were online last night, PvP probably wasn't the most fun thing as, for some of the night, there was no AV and then shortly after this, they took the rest of the battlegrounds down. That is when one of the best things since the release of The Burning Crusade happened to me.¦
Something must have bugged because everyone on Bronzebeard, both Alliance and Horde, who had queued for Arathi Basin when the cross-realm battlegrounds down, was shoved into the same AB together.
This won't mean much to many of you because, if you didn't play prior to the release of TBC, you won't have experienced old style PvP. Let me tell you about it.
Back before honour was introduced and cross-realm made battlegrounds readily available to the masses, PvP took time. A queue would last anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. To give you an example, a typical AV used to last massive amounts of time. At one point, I logged on, joined AV and stayed in the AV for 13 hours. Things were so much more epic back then. The great thin was that you could really make a name for yourself based on how well you did. People on your server would begin to fear you.
Needless to say, cross-realm broke this feeling of epic-ness but it did bring obvious, easy-gear benefits.
So you get the idea. We were in AB - 15 Bronzebeard Horde Vs. 15 Bronzebeard Alliance. For the first time since the release of TBC, we would all get the chance to prove that our respective faction was the better of the two. This rare opportunity was not to be squandered.
Horde won. Like we always did back in the day. It was a comfortable win with little in the way of challenge. I say that like you aren't going to assume I'm bias towards my own faction.
I won't bore you with a rundown of the match but I shall quote Vortas, a rogue on my server, who sums up the game very well indeed.
Communication was excellent and teamwork was superb. Watching 6 alliance zerg the LM to be held up by 3 us and then to have to watch our roaming defence come charging up hill to wipe them out was just pure class.
Credit where credit is due, i enjoyed the game because you alliance didnt sit back an give up but kept coming at us trying to attack different positions an mixing it up! Thank you for the awesome game!
The sad thing is that this one match reminded me of how much I do, indeed, miss vanilla WoW. Oh how I wish we could go back to the good old days where names mattered and battlegrounds felt like more than a grind… unless you were going for High Warlord but that would be another, far more gruesome story.
I wonder, what do you miss about vanilla WoW that TBC changed?
