For me, battlegrounds are the perfect balance of fast paced and dynamic play with interacting-with-people stress. YMMV, of course, but my reactions to the different types of play go generally like this:
Questing: Go here. Kill/collect 6 things. Hand them in. Repeat until boredom breaks my will.
Dungeons: Zone into a group. Struggle to keep up with strangers who never talk and are usually mean when they do, struggle to do damage in a fight I don't understand, stress out over letting down the group by dying, feel incompetent/pathetic/like a failure if I die. Repeat until stress breaks my will.
Battleground: Zone in. Head for objective. Watch BG chat for info about objectives ("enemies incomning to X location", "only 2 on defense at Y location", "I'm going for the flag, want to come?", "they're turtling", etc.). Try to fill the gaps. Fight hard against unpredictable opponents, die frequently (like everyone does), resurrect and jump back into the fray. Win or lose, come out of it with honor points to buy better gear with. \o/
I have been insulted in BGs, but it's only been personal three times, and I've run dozens of BGs. Folks do say stupid and bigoted shit in BG chat, but I would say I only see that about 30% of the time and it gets less frequent the higher level you are.
If you like a calm pace of play, BGs definitely are NOT for you. But if people stress you out and questing is getting repetitive, give them a try.
I've only tried the battleground zone in Northrend -- Wintergrasp? I think.
I'm not high enough level to play the Battleground zones yet, although I'm looking forward to it. I play the instanced BGs using the BG finder (default keybind to bring it up is "H").
Of course, I'm not geared for resistance or resilience or whatever it's called.
BGs have level brackets, so if you take a character with no resilience into a BG you're going to get one-shotted a lot unless you have awesome PVE gear. :-/ But if you put up with that for a while, you'll build up honor points and get some genuine PVP gear. And if you have gold, at higher levels you can get some crafted resilience gear on the AH.
((I've played Wintergrasp only on my Ret Pally; I'm still leveling a number of other characters, including hunter, druid, warrior, rogue -- no mages or warlocks yet. Advice for any is welcome.))
I have an 85 mage, but alaso, I got there exclusively by questing, so I am without tips for anyone but a mid-level Pally. :-/
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Date: 2011-05-06 06:57 pm (UTC)For me, battlegrounds are the perfect balance of fast paced and dynamic play with interacting-with-people stress. YMMV, of course, but my reactions to the different types of play go generally like this:
Questing: Go here. Kill/collect 6 things. Hand them in. Repeat until boredom breaks my will.
Dungeons: Zone into a group. Struggle to keep up with strangers who never talk and are usually mean when they do, struggle to do damage in a fight I don't understand, stress out over letting down the group by dying, feel incompetent/pathetic/like a failure if I die. Repeat until stress breaks my will.
Battleground: Zone in. Head for objective. Watch BG chat for info about objectives ("enemies incomning to X location", "only 2 on defense at Y location", "I'm going for the flag, want to come?", "they're turtling", etc.). Try to fill the gaps. Fight hard against unpredictable opponents, die frequently (like everyone does), resurrect and jump back into the fray. Win or lose, come out of it with honor points to buy better gear with. \o/
I have been insulted in BGs, but it's only been personal three times, and I've run dozens of BGs. Folks do say stupid and bigoted shit in BG chat, but I would say I only see that about 30% of the time and it gets less frequent the higher level you are.
If you like a calm pace of play, BGs definitely are NOT for you. But if people stress you out and questing is getting repetitive, give them a try.
I've only tried the battleground zone in Northrend -- Wintergrasp? I think.
I'm not high enough level to play the Battleground zones yet, although I'm looking forward to it. I play the instanced BGs using the BG finder (default keybind to bring it up is "H").
Of course, I'm not geared for resistance or resilience or whatever it's called.
BGs have level brackets, so if you take a character with no resilience into a BG you're going to get one-shotted a lot unless you have awesome PVE gear. :-/ But if you put up with that for a while, you'll build up honor points and get some genuine PVP gear. And if you have gold, at higher levels you can get some crafted resilience gear on the AH.
((I've played Wintergrasp only on my Ret Pally; I'm still leveling a number of other characters, including hunter, druid, warrior, rogue -- no mages or warlocks yet. Advice for any is welcome.))
I have an 85 mage, but alaso, I got there exclusively by questing, so I am without tips for anyone but a mid-level Pally. :-/