Friday, 11 June 2010 16:00
Filed under: News items, PvP, Cataclysm
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.
Kalgan
We"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.
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Cataclysm to bring region-wide battlegrounds originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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