This is Wintergrasp. Not a Battleground, but I wanted a semi-relevant picture.
In thinking of themes for this blog, one of the ideas that came up was a feature on my favourite battleground. As lame as the idea may sound, it is not without motive.
I think it's easy for PVPers to get jaded about battlegrounds. Depending on your faction, battlegroup, and alliance to horde ratio, sometimes battlegrounds can be the most excruciatingly painful PVP experience ever. Depending on your tolerance threshold for bullshit, you might feel the urge to bust in some of the skulls on your team. People go afk, people enter BGs for achievements then immediately depart...
...anyway, my point is that it is very easy to find reasons not to like certain battlegrounds. I think it's harder, but more satisfying to find reasons why you DO like a certain battleground above the rest.
In forcing myself to think about it, my favourite BG is Arathi Basin.
There's a lot to hate about Arathi Basin. I think that aside from WSG, AB contains the least amount of teamwork-oriented PVPers, unless you go in with some friends. But I think I love it the most simply because to me, it's easy, it's quick, you get a lot of HKs (even guarding flags - which is an important aspect of AB), and nothing quite beats the feeling when you assault a flag and that flag is captured in the name of your faction.
Also, if you pair up with a nice mage or priest, you can find yourself floating off of the lumber mill with your pewpew lasers set to full and nuke the hell out of people from above at the blacksmith. I like the rush out of the gate, especially when DKs leave up their path of frost and your forces go barreling across the water directly to blacksmith, sometimes leaving stables entirely in the hands of fate.
I like that it's so easy to get - capture flags, hold flags, receive bacon - and yet it poses a rudimentary challenge in teamwork. Perhaps this will serve as fuel for a later post about learning teamwork in battlegrounds.
Anyway. I just wanted to put some positivity down on paper related to a battleground, since it's really easy to get frustrated with running endless battlegrounds, especially when they're unsuccessful. Maybe your favourite BG is different, but I encourage you, people who are reading these words, to think about what battleground you enjoy the most and WHY. You'll find it's a harder task than you thought, and maybe it will refresh your enjoyment of PVP as a whole.
