which makes them a prime location for PvP to occur (on PvP realms.) These are not PvP zones on PvE realms. Unless you flag, you shouldn't have any concerns with PvP. If you're on a PvP realm, it's the same as any questing area you would currently encounter. On a personal note, as someone who has played predominantly on a PvP realm, I've never had a problem leveling. Even in classic when world PvP was all there was, I still got by with a little help of my friends (and sometimes just strangers who happened to be by.) All this does is brings back some of those same opportunities for those that want to take part in PvP who are on a PvP realm. As was said in the interview, your experience on a PvE realm shouldn't be affected. PvP realms have different rulesets for a reason, and we're able to define this ruleset a bit further with some slight alterations to the guards. The "danger" on a PvP realm has always been there for you if you play on a PvP realm now. The difference is the opportunity either wasn't taken up by others or was avoided. For all you know, you may well not encounter any once this goes live either. Your realm may well be OK with not engaging each other at the hubs or elsewhere. They may be more focused on other things. This isn't about "forcing" anyone to anything, but opening up opportunities that have always been a part of the intentions of PvP realms. |
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Can you give us more details on the quest hubs? are they going to be grindy, pve related quests or are they going to be pvp related at all? The quest hubs aren't specifically designed for PvP. They are hubs though with daily quests that will have players coming back time after time to do them which makes them a prime location for PvP to occur (on PvP realms.) Our roundup of Mists of Pandaria content from our press tour a bit ago has more information on questing and how that's all going to work. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/4664616 |
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With the Mists of Pandaria beta in full swing we thought we’d take this opportunity to shed some light on what lays ahead for PvP. To that end, we sat down with World of Warcraft Game Director Tom Chilton to discuss the future of PvP in Mists of Pandaria.
Read the new blog article then discuss it here. |
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We have information about cross-realm zones in our blog article here- We'll be keeping an eye on this thread for any additional questions or feedback btw and try to answer what we can as soon as we can. I'm unsure how I feel about the dismount item though. I can deal with getting camped, but I can definitely see a huge QQ fest incoming. It would need one hell of a CD. Hopefully, we'll get it into the beta at some point so that players can get it and test it out. We'll be looking for constructive feedback on it for sure as to whether there's too much of a cooldown, too little of one, availability (too available, not available enough etc.) |