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PvP additions Battlegrounds

The currently planned battleground referred to as the Strand of the Ancients will have siege vehicles, 10 or 15 people in each team, and games will last 30 to 40 minutes.

The issue with battlegrounds starting with unbalanced teams, caused by multiple queueing and the grace period for joining, will be addressed. The reporting system is also being further tuned to allow players to better police abuse of the PvP to gain easy marks of honor.[citation needed]
Arenas

Two new Arenas will also be introduced in the expansion. One in the currently unused Orgrimmar Arena and the other in a new Dalaran Arena in Dalaran's sewers. These arenas will introduce moving objects such as pillars and waterfalls, and damaging objects such as spikes in arenas and other such mechanics to create dynamics with line of sight and gameplay.
World PvP

PvP mechanics will be extended in WotLK, with the addition of a dedicated PvP zone (even on PvE servers) in central Northrend called Lake Wintergrasp. There is no requirement to visit the zone, but the benefit will be that all bosses in instances will drop a token, similar to Spirit Shards in Bone Wastes, when your faction holds the keep everyone is fighting for. Players will be able to use these tokens to purchase gear.

 

Siege Weapons

The expansion will also introduce siege weapons, destructible buildings to PvP in both Lake Wintergrasp and the new Northrend Battleground(s).

Battlegrounds are instanced areas solely used for the purposes of PvP. Each "BG" has two red instance entrance portals; one for Alliance, and one for the Horde. To enter the queue, the player must either step through the instance portal, or seek out a Battlemaster which can be found in any capital city. Once inside the instance, the two teams will engage in large-scale PvP, with various and different objectives determining the winner. Players will earn one or more Mark of Honor, using these along with honor points make PvP rewards available. (There is no durability penalty associated with death, except if you fall to your death).

If a character goes AFK they will leave the instance and gain the Deserter debuff. This prevents entry to another battleground for a 15 minute duration. You can report inactive players by right clicking on the player and selecting "Report AFK". When enough reports are registered, a 60 second debuff will begin to count down. Once the timer is up a new debuff will appear that will prevent the player from gaining any honor or marks while it is on. This debuff can be negated as soon as the player engages in PvP combat.

The two initial Battleground areas, Alterac Valley and Warsong Gulch, went live June 7th, 2005. Arathi Basin was added to the list in patch 1.7 on September 13th, 2005. A fourth battleground, named Eye of the Storm, was released with the Burning Crusade. A fifth battleground, the Strand of the Ancients, is planned for Wrath of the Lich King.
Contents
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* 1 Existing Battlegrounds
o 1.1 Alterac Valley
o 1.2 Arathi Basin
o 1.3 Eye of the Storm
o 1.4 Warsong Gulch
* 2 Future/Incomplete Battlegrounds
o 2.1 Azshara Crater
o 2.2 Gurubashi Catacombs
o 2.3 Strand of the Ancients
 

Existing Battlegrounds
Alterac Valley
The Alterac Valley graphic
The Alterac Valley graphic

* Factions: Stormpike Guard (Alliance), Frostwolf Clan (Horde)

* Alliance Base: Dun Baldar
* Alliance Entrance: The Headland

* Horde Base: Frostwolf Keep
* Horde Entrance: North East of Sofera's Naze

* Levels: 51-60, 61-70

* Combatants: 40 per faction (20 minimum)

Arathi Basin
The Arathi Basin graphic
The Arathi Basin graphic

* Factions: The League of Arathor (Alliance), The Defilers (Horde)

* Alliance Base: Trollbane Hall
* Alliance Entrance: Refuge Pointe

* Horde Base: Defiler's Den
* Horde Entrance:Hammerfall

* Levels: 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70
* Combatants: 15 per faction (7 minimum)

Eye of the Storm
The Eye of the Storm graphic
The Eye of the Storm graphic

Requires The Burning Crusade expansion.

* Factions: There are no factions associated with the two sides.

* Alliance Base: Unknown.
* Alliance Entrance: There is no exterior entrance. You can only enter by speaking with a Battlemaster.

* Horde Base: Unknown
* Horde Entrance: There is no exterior entrance. You can only enter by speaking with a Battlemaster.

* Levels: 61-69, 70

* Combatants: 15 per faction

Warsong Gulch
The Warsong Gulch graphic
The Warsong Gulch graphic

* Factions: Silverwing Sentinels (Alliance), Warsong Outriders (Horde)

* Alliance Base: Silverwing Hold
* Alliance Entrance: Silverwing Grove
* Horde Base: Warsong Lumber Mill
* Horde Entrance: Mor'shan Base Camp

* Levels: 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70.

* Combatants: 10 per faction (5 minimum)

* Map: On WorldofWarcraft.com

Future/Incomplete Battlegrounds
Azshara Crater

A reported future addition, but details are mostly speculative.

Tom Chilton: That was a battleground that was created pretty much at the same time that we were creating Alterac Valley...I've never really felt comfortable going forward with Azshara Crater until we finally feel like Alterac Valley really works the way we'd like it to work ... I don't want to make another "Alterac Valley" until we're pretty happy with Alterac Valley.
 

Blizzard info:

* Caydiem: We're not making any new Battlegrounds in the near future. We naturally need to be careful about spreading the PvP community thin. That isn't to say we're not thinking about what we could do with a new Battleground, but I wouldn't expect anything anytime soon, no. (2006-01-20)[1]

* Nathaera: There is one new battleground planned. (There may be more added in the future but we shall see.) Just to clear something up, The Caverns of Time are not Battlegrounds. (2006-10-11)[2]

Gurubashi Catacombs

A "deathmatch" style battleground that was scrapped and made into Arena PvP.
Strand of the Ancients
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King This section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.
The Strand of the Ancients map
The Strand of the Ancients map

* Factions: The map seems to suggest that the factions will be a tauren faction for the horde and a human faction for the alliance.

* Alliance Base: Alliance boat
* Alliance Entrance: There will be a Battlemaster available in the lake wintergrasp when the Alliance Controls the Wintergrasp Fortress.

* Horde Base: Horde boat
* Horde Entrance: There will be a Battlemaster available in the lake wintergrasp when the Horde Controls the Wintergrasp Fortress.

* Levels: 71-79, 80

* Combatants: 10/15 per faction.

Note

* If you are the highest level in a bracket and you join the queue for that bracket it is possible to become 1 level higher than the maximum level for that bracket (with the exception of the level 70 bracket). This is done by joining the queue then while still in queue leveling up to the next highest level. Since you are still in the queue for the bracket that is below your current level you will still enter that type of battleground as your higher level. This is considered cheating and will make other players dislike you a lot.

* Some nefarious (mean, bored) players will use a macro to send other players on their team a message telling them that they have been reported AFK and that in order to stay in the "BG" they must type "remove /afk" or something similar. This will only make you automatically get kicked from the "BG" so don't do it.

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