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jeudi, 7 février 2008

Revisiting Halaa

Halaa is a neutral city in Nagrand that was designed by Blizzard to be an outdoor PvP hotspot. Fighting here grants you tokens you can use to buy PvP stuff (read: with resilience) and controling the city grants a faction a zone-wide damage buff. While Halaa may have been successful some time ago, when dozens of levelling players where swarming Nagrand, it is very hard today to have a fight there involving more than 5 to 10 players.

Halaa is actually fun to play, but most players have no interest in coming here and this ruins the concept. While you would expect fights in Halaa several times a day, it hardly happens one time a week on a very well populated server. Is Halaa definitely broken ? Can Blizzard do something ? Hell yes, and you'll find out how in the rest of this article.

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lundi, 4 février 2008

How to win in Arathi Basin

Euripedes has published an article today on CriticalQQ on how much Horde sucks today in Arathi Basin. With Horde getting paladins and Alliance getting Shamans, I expected to find some good balance between the two factions in battleground PvP (Alterac excepted, since this map is not symmetric). And I found out it was not, for no particular reason.

While this would be worth a long post, I won't go into explaining why Horde sucks in the 70 bracket and why Alliance sucks even more in the 69 bracket. I'll just take the opportunity to talk about strategy in Arathi Basin, since the most obvious reason beyond gear and class mastery for repeated losses in battlegrounds is lack of knowledge.

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