http://pc.ign.com/articles/718/718310p1.html

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the new world PvP content will take place in Silithus and Eastern Plaguelands, although it may eventually branch out to other areas. Silithus and EPL are the highest-level zones in the game right now anyway (Deadwind Pass is too small to count, really), so it will generally be level 55-60 players bashing away at each other.

In Silithus, the objective revolves around collecting dust, called "silithyst," and players will activate the geysers to collect the silithysts. You get a nice "buff" (stat boost) when you turn in the resources, but you'll be flagged as a PvP player as soon as you pick the stuff up, making you attackable by anyone in the opposing faction while you attempt to make your way back the Field Duty camps associated with the Cenarion Hold faction quests. If you manage to turn in enough of the dust, all of your fellow faction members in the zone will gain a buff as well, including those in the "AQ20" Ahn'Qiraj dungeon. Also, Blizzard tells us that no new PvP rewards are on the horizon, although faction and PvP honor points will be involved.

In the Eastern Plaguelands, we'll have a PvP mode that's similar to the Arathi Basin play style, rather than the resource collection in Silithus. There are several towers in this zone, already standing, that will be converted to captureable bases. You'll need to control and defend each tower, and the faction who possesses all four will gain zone-wide benefits like in Silithus. In addition to increased damage against the many undead creatures there (and in Stratholme), there will also be PvP-specific flight paths connecting the towers to each other. Although this game type has been prone in the past to tactical exploitation by rogues and other stealthy classes, Blizzard plans to implement a feature where the time it takes to capture a tower is reduced according to how many friendly players are nearby. If you are a stun-kill-disappear commando, you may find your usual tactics less useful here. Also, unlike Silithus, there is no automatic PvP flagging.

I hate to sound whiney, but I read this as effectively saying, for the majority of servers :

All alliance players are permanently buffed in Silithus, Eastern Plaguelands and the Ruins of Ahn'Qhiraj. ]

I know it doesn't seem like much, and yes it's no detriment to the horde - but the population balance is *already* so massive on many, many servers, that adding just another little thing to it just makes me think more and more about re-rolling.

And yes, it's whiney and moany. I don't get why people who have 3* the numbers of one side get to be permanently boosted in a PvE instance...

Its almost impossible to rebalance existing faction balances. I don't think that these buffs will be outrageously powerful. However I doubt that the minority faction will really put up an effort to fight for these buffs. On our realm horde queues are instant, faction imbalance is pretty awful. I guess, no horde player will go to the open pvp areas if he can have a "fair" 10 on 10 in WSG instead of being zerged down by the masses.

I'm alliance and agree with you Maledict. It will probably just end up that the underpopulated side just never bothers with this.

I was really hoping for something like contested zones having checkpoint towers that can be captured by either horde or alliance, if one faction eventually gains control of all the towers the zone becomes that faction's territory for however long the towers are held.

How great would it be to get control of a place like Stranglethorn and let all the low level guys grind in peace for a bit until a tower is taken again. I'd enjoy it. Or start making use of the arena's and have a BG type 1v1, 2v2, etc tournaments set up through there for big cp or gear prizes.

This just sounds really boring, but I guess it can be a way to kill time between BG waits, which will probably not be bad at all with the cross server ones being implemented at the same time.

I see it as proof of concept, basically, for ideas that will be expanded upon in TBC. Because of population imbalance issues, I imagine they're hesitant to add anything with truly significant effects on the game world (e.g., if certain points of interest are controlled one faction pays higher merchant prices across the board and the other pays lower prices). People fought over a damn tower in Hillsbrad for a month just because it was there, and other players were there. I think they're curious to see if giving a little nudge in that direction will encourage more world PvP -- even if you don't go there for the rewards themselves, but simply because you know other players looking for PvP will also be found there.

Yeah, if this is their awesome solution to bring back world pvp, it's pretty weak. Hopefully it's just one aspect of a bigger system, but I dunno.

I'm suprised they are not trying to use experience gained from AQ opening event and AV... making said EPL towers real NPC hubs, with quests, special events (3rd party attacks - Scourge anyone) and so on would make it less AB like. In general, giving players something that make them feel like part of the army, not part of the zerg.

And it's actually even worse, because in AB you rarely can have full time zerg controlling all the nodes, while in outdoor PvP it is quite possible.

Silithus Dune-like spice harvesting is not even worth a comment.

I like the concept, but if I'm already in a mood to pvp I'll be in org queueing up. Sithilus and EPL are both pretty far to get to from org, involving at least 10 minutes travel time. The way the queues have been on MG lately I'll probably be in a BG before I get there. For servers with much more of a pop imbalance (practically all of them) the pop heavy side will just be in the zones turning in the dust and controling the towers and just griefing people trying to do quests while the other faction people that want to PvP are probably just going to be in a BG. This would be a lot more appealing to me if they changed one of two things.

1. Be able to queue for a battleground from more places around the world (gaget, all major factions cities).

2. Have battlegrounds dump you more or less right where you were when you entered them. I have no idea how feasable this is design wise.

This is what I figured it would be, if there is no bonus honor for doing either look for this to only be used to get buffs, and generally ignored by most PvP oriented people on balanced population servers.

I do hope that what gurg said is true and this is a test for the expansion. Hopefully in the expansion with PvP oriented zones they will be exciting.

It needs to be more rewarding than BGs for people that want 'honor'. If it isn't, it will be less populated.