A Summary of World PvP Today: What Wintergrasp Means to You
Before Wrath of the Lich King, World PvP was a pretty simple aspect of World of Warcraft. Outland had a few basic objectives available, where you could do basic stuff like capturing Haala or the towers and beacons in Hellfire, Terrokar Forest, and Zangarmarsh. While completing these missions was easy enough, few people actually bothered with them. There were a couple of reasons for that. Firstly, the reward for completing the missions wasn’t very large. Secondly, completing many of them gave off results zone-wide. That meant that all you had to do was be in the zone to get the reward. Why put a lot of effort (or any effort at all) into completing these if the odds were good that some group or another would come along and complete them without your help before too long, and you would still get credit for it .
But that all changed when WotLK hit and the game started emphasizing more advanced, real time battles in World PvP with their first real time PvP battle zone in Lake Wintergrasp. In this new zone, you’ll find players facing off in epic battles on the live server and in doing so, earning points that allow them to buy a wide variety of rare and valuable items such as the new Heirloom items that any character in their account regardless of that character’s level can use.
There are other areas where World PvP has been enhanced, such as the Grizzly Hills. That said, clearly the place most people think of when they talk about World PvP is Lake Wintergrasp. There you’ll find the most new content, the most opportunity to get involved, and the biggest opportunities to advance your character’s PvP skill.
It’s clear that World PvP is immensely popular. All you have to do is check out how much people are talking about Lake Wintergrasp and how much time their characters are spending there to see it’s true. And that means we’re likely to see many more new World PvP options in future expansions and patches. Building up your skills now will pay huge dividends in the future, particularly if you have any dreams of earning top rewards and other achievements.
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