- Rated Battlegrounds will be an alternative way to gain Arena points for those who prefer large-scale PVP.
- Your personal rating gain for a win will vary depending on the specific Battleground.
- There’ll be featured Battlegrounds each week with bonus rating gain for wins.
- You will not lose points or rating for a Battleground loss.
- Arena points can be used to purchase pets, mounts, vanity items, and perhaps best of all, the old honor system PVP titles like Grand Marshal.
- Tol Barad will provide bonus daily quests and instances for the faction that wins the battle for the zone, somewhat like, as Brack put it, a cross between the Isle of Quel’Danas and Lake Wintergrasp.
You can check out our previous IgroMir post here, or read Blizzard’s official recap on their IgroMir site.
There’s lots of lore to mine there, too: Magatha is the reigning matriarch of the clan, and not only is she buddies with the Forsaken (obviously there’s been something happening with them during Wrath), but she’s rivals with Cairne Bloodhoof as well. It would definitely be interesting. Of course, this is all speculation — we aren’t sure that there will even be an instance in Thousand Needles, much less that it’ll be Grimtotem based (the whole place is getting flooded, so anything could happen — maybe the Naga will get a “fin-hold” there). But the idea of taking on the Grimtotem again seems like fun.
