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Originally Posted by utenan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I wish they would never introduce battlegrounds. They turned pvp into a repetitive, instanced, pve like grind that had no meaning.

Battlegrounds and Arena gave PvP signifigance in WoW. If PvP is a grind to you, you're either in really low arena brackets or opt to sitting afk in AV during the CtA weekends for honor rather than actually PvPing. The only difference World PvP has over BG PvP is you have longer res timers in WPvP and you weren't in an instance of x amount of people. Also, in BG PvP you actually get rewarded with nice gear so PvErs don't get to automatically dominate the PvP scene.

The only effect world PvP had was grief because lowbies couldn't quest for shit once everybody started calling in their friends. Guards and quest givers were frequently camped by dickasses who wanted more world defence callouts.

Take nostalgia goggles off pls. Without BGs and Arenas people wouldn't be able to keep their interest in that area of the game because before BGs there was absolutely no reward for fighting other than for the fun of it, which often came at the expense of people who weren't max level. If anything, world PvP had no meaning and continues to have no meaning today.

Want big fights? IoC.
Farming honor? AV, they ruined that so it's only good for the Battlemaster meta and AFKing.
Want smaller team fights? Everything else except SotA.
Want even smaller fights that have an extremely high skill ceiling? Arena.
SotA sucks. So does WoW limited to world PvP.

I also sometimes wish that battlegroups weren't created, but then I remember waiting for hours just to get into a single AV and I don't wish for it anymore.