Ensidia

We have several changes planned for Battlegrounds in the next minor content patch and would like to share them with you now. This patch will be available for public testing and we encourage you to participate, queue up and provide some feedback on these changes.

Zarhym's announcement today came as a welcome sight for PvPers, with significant changes improving the BG system considerably.

Marks of honor are gone and will be tradeable for honor even on an individual basis, so no more grinding of your least favourite BG in order to buy stuff. The holiday weekends are now called Call to Arms and have had their bonus honor system tweaked. The overall honor for a kill has been doubled, and, in the biggest news of the post, a random BG system is being implemented. It will work exactly like the random dungeon finder and you can queue for it solo or with up to four others (seems a bit weird to limit it to 5, but whatever, it's still a good thing). It will replace the daily BG quests and you won't know which BG you're queued for until you zone in, so HF in AV.

Other facts about the random BG system:

• Winning a Battleground using the Random Battleground option for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency and 25 Arena points.
  
• Winning additional Battlegrounds using the Random Battleground option after the first random win will award players with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
  
• Losing a Battleground using the Random Battleground option will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
  
• When using the Random Battleground option, players will not receive additional rewards if the Battleground chosen is under the effects of the Call to Arms bonuses. In other words, the bonuses do not stack. In addition, if a player has been rewarded 30 Honorable Kills worth of bonus Honor currency and 25 Arena points from either the Random Battleground system, or the Call to Arms Battleground, he or she will be rewarded 15 Honorable Kills worth of bonus Honor currency and no Arena points that day for each additional victory. This applies whether the Random Battleground system is used, or the Call to Arms Battleground is chosen specifically, as a player cannot be rewarded the full amount of bonus Honor and the 25 Arena points more than once per day.