Battlegrounds 101: Honor made easy.

By Tihrel Updated: 2017/09/28

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Comment by Tamardia

Great guide!

Found one little thing that you might want to correct. In the healer section you mention Windwalker Monks, but that's the DD monks. The healers are called Mistweaver.

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Comment by 982956

Some useful information, but 101 implies a starting point for people who know *nothing* about the subject. This seems more like an intermediate guide. My comments are based on assuming that it *is* your intention to write a helpful treatise for players who are brand new to battlegrounds and the player-versus-player aspect of World of Warcraft in general.

Please explain terms and strategies before you refer to them. Someone brand new to the game would be helped by defining even basic terms like CC and AoE. I've heard of turtling, but how is it done? Since it has something to do with turtles, it probably refers to something defensive, because of turtles' sturdy shells. When and how is it best used or to be avoided?

I've played casually on and off since the game was new, but have done next to no pvp. I'm the gal you mentioned who is "crazy lost". But I'm well intentioned and want to help the team if I can find a good guide to equip me with a clue.My main incentive to ever venture into a battleground has been to earn holiday achievements. But maybe it could actually be fun.

Some things I can figure out, just from having been around, but still with effort. (It took me a minute to realize that "FC" meant flag carrier. And yet, I still don't know how to retrieve a flag to carry it. Likewise, "EFC" probably means enemy flag carrier. Imagine someone who's brand new to the game.

I've seen those flags in world pvp areas like Hellfire Penninsula, and know that having more of your faction members there than the enemy has turns the flag to your side's possession. Is this capturing or "capping" the flag? It could be, but then it seems like a different sort of flag than one that gets carried. I've heard that mounts can usually not be used in battlegrounds, so sometimes certain classes have an advantage, like druids in travel form. But maybe that's outdated.

There are Battle Masters, and these days, an interface to use to join a battle. Queuing is not addressed. I would love a list of steps for learning and gaining skills. Are some Battlegrounds easier, slower, better places to start out and learn?

Believe it or not, some of us have never played Halo! So, sorry, using it a frame of reference isn't helpful. Balls? Where do I get one? Do I click on something somewhere to pick it up? Does a friendly non-player character throw it to me at random if I have an open bag slot? How can I tell that an opposing player has one. Can I tackle her?

Is a "node" anything more than an area with a certain purpose? If so, does that make a graveyard a "node"? I once tried a battleground that used vehicles. I was unable to use them. Maybe I just didn't know how to use them. There was some sort of workshop that created them, but I think I hadn't "earned the rank needed" to use it.

In eight years, I've never heard the term "hard casting" is that spell casting immune to interruption? (Educated guess here.)

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that "honorable kills" can be earned without actually doing the killing! What's the difference between honor and honorable kills? Questions like this, I know, are very basic, but, you've called this a very basic guide to easily earning this thing called "honor".

Since you define "low gear" as having freshly arrived at level 90, does that mean that you suggest never trying pvp before then? While I've know some who ache to start battle grounds at the lowest possible level, I'm planning on starting with a paladin who's a bit short of 50. My understanding is that different battlegrounds become available at different levels,and that there are brackets, each one covering 10 character levels. Some people, perhaps fewer than in the past optimize their characters to be the best in one of these brackets, and these characters are called "twinks". What can you share about playing battlegrounds at any level, including at the lower range of one of these brackets. Is it difficult to transition from the top of one bracket to the bottom of the next?

Since you obviously know a lot about these grounds of battle, please help me and other rank neophytes to not just be "crazy lost", but instead, to have fun, and even help our teams win.

Battlegrounds 101: Honor made easy.

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