How do others feel about the new cross server battlegrounds they are implementing?

I'm concerned it may kill the game for me. I really enjoy open-world PvP and I enjoy the community that rises up around PvP in an open world PvP system. Most of the games that I've played in the past open world PvP dies when queued battlegrounds are implemented.

What are your thoughts? Right now I'm really hoping they change their minds and not implement this feature.

I would prefer no battle grounds at all, but if they had to implement them at least do it same server. I don't like cross server ideas at all. It takes away from building same server rivalries.

If the BGs are supposed to also serve as a way for Vanarch positions to be won, how does that work cross server? Excuse my ignorance on the BGs and Vanarch situation, I'm not familiar with it.

I like battlegrounds but I would prefer it be server-only, at least on the PvP servers. The PvE servers are a different story and for many of them it's just a much more casual thing so they might enjoy more the idea of queueing into a random BG.

But on a PvP server, I like the idea that people need to organize their own groups when doing a BG and work together. Not to mention, when you know the people you are fighting it adds to a sense of community, or adds to any political rivalries you may have.

I have no problem with BGs. But I also do not want to see OWPvP die. I really hope that Tera incorporates an OWPvP area. I think they should have BAMs or something that would draw people to it. Maybe a special BAM spawns once an hour. And groups have to go in and fight it out in order to get a chance to down the beast. The monster would drop BoP gear to prevent farming for zerg guilds. I think that would add an interesting aspect to Tera.

I played many other games, and I agree that OWPvP usually dies with the implementation of Cross-Server stuff, but the problem comes with que times if you only do same-server BG's. The que times would more then likely go through the roof if it was contained to same-server. I could be wrong though.

Also you guys should read the other posts about the "Castle Siege" stuff. If they did that as well as these BG's it might save OWPvP too.

Just my thoughts on the matter. :D

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That is all I hear everytime I come to the forums.

Battlegrounds are being implemented cause it makes sense, 60's dont have anything to do.

We get yelled at for ganking lowbies, we get yelled at for killing 60's, we get complained to about doing this doing that.... dude... Seriously if they said were not Implementing battlegrounds, you would probably still be Bìtching.

As much as I don't mind BG, EME/BHS needs to also refine the OPPvP and not just BG. I really hope they do not become extremely lazy and just to ignore one aspect over the other.

Quote: DigitalRemix on 06/01/2012, 12:48 PM - view

I don't know what game you're playing but I have far too much I need to be doing at 60. I wish I had less to do so I could spend more time running around PvPing.

I dont know what you are doing then, cause I'm bored as hell..

I'm not a Lancer so I dont que for dungeons anymore, dont even bother, 4 hour wait time isnt worth the effort put into it.

• 5 - 10 Mins / Sloths Normal BT Farm
• 5 - 10 Mins / Sloths Hardmode BT Farm
• 10 Mins Dailies (Maybe longer if I get pk'd)
• 20 Mins ToT Run

A geared group can run all available 60 dungeons in a matter of a Hour, so that leaves waiting for dungeon cooldown timers.

Therefore even a geared group will be sitting around for approximately a hour with nothing to do with a 2 hour cd on BT.

If you have so much to do, then please enlighten me cause I'm definitely missing out.

If you are talking about crafting, you shoulda leveled that while leveling.

Reputation? I do dailies, Im not going to grind mobs for hours, no way in hell.

Nexus, 6 times a week a hour a peice.

Still need enchant fodder so I run dungeons when I can to get that (nothing is at +9 yet and I've been 60 since May 7). Try to do it with guildies though so we can turn off class specific loot. Although haven't been able to farm that back to back as much I'd like. Daily quests but I'm a Priest so doing dailies in two zones takes longer than 10 minutes - heck, it's a few minutes just traveling around the daily zone and then off to the next zone. ToT runs although I've only done one so far so I need to do more of that. Guild DM events three times a week which takes a few hours out of my night. Nexuses three times a week on weekends so that's two hours right there. Random GvG battles which can go for a while. I log in between 6:30PM EST to 1:30AM est and still don't have time to get everything done every day depending on what is going on that night. Not sure if I forgot anything. Haven't even started doing hardmodes yet.