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Comment by 236567

I hope it will be like the old av :D

Comment by 406117

The Isle of Conquest is going to be a 40 man battleground featuring two generals, reinforcements, Arathi Basin-esque points of conflict, and lots of siege weapons.

The battleground shares a lot of common themes with Alterac Valley and Wintergrasp, and to a lesser extent, Arathi Basin. Hopefully, it won't become the next Eye of the Storm.

Unlike Eye of the Storm, it isn't all recycled PvP gameplay in a new environment. Assuming it all makes it to live, Isle of Conquest will boast catapults that can fling you over walls, two specific nodes that offer steady bonus honor (the Cobalt Mine and Oil Derrick), the new Glaive Thrower vehicles, and Gunships that, presumably, can be fired from as well as paradropped from. It sounds like the new BG has a lot of potential; let's hope Blizzard does this right.

Comment by Mumpley

This is a very entertaining Battleground and has the feel of Arathi Basin, Strand of the Ancients and Alterac Valley all mushed together. It introduces an array of controllable Siege Machines at the player's command, and in the Battleground Siege Vehicles play an important role in who wins and who loses.

Main Objective: Destroy the opposing enemies Keep and eliminate their General.

Siege Production Areas: Workshop (Center), Hangar (East), Docks (West)

Resource Nodes: Refinery (Northwest), Cobalt Quarry (Southeast)

THE MACHINES OF WAR

- Demolisher
Holds 3 people, including driver.
Main Abilities: Hurl Boulder, Ram
Obtained by capturing the Workshop.

-Siege Engine
Holds 4 people, including driver.
Main Abilites: Ram, Steam Rush
Main Turret Abilities: Fire Cannon, Steam Blast
Side Turret Abilites: Flame Turret, Napalm.
Obtained by Capturing the Workshop. After capture, you must wait 3 minutes for it to be completely repaired and ready for use. If destroyed in battle, it will respawn after 3 minutes and etc.

-Glaive Thrower
Holds 1 person.
Main Abilites: Glaive Throw, Blade Salvo
Obtained by capturing the Docks.
Alliance and Horde have unique appearances of this vehicle different from one another.

-Catapult
Holds 1 person.
"The Suicide Machine"
Man Abilites: Launch, Shadow Veil
Obtained by capturing the Docks.

-Airship
Unlimited Capacity
Main Abilities: Airship Cannon (Mounted Turret Only)
Paratrooper Abilites: Parachute
Obtained by capturing the Hangar.
The Parachute ability is a passive "buff" given to every occupant of the Airship. Just jump right off the Airship and it auto-deploys. Additionally, the Airship is on an uncontrollable, pre-designated course which circles around your enemies Keep. Lastly, 2 portals near the Hangars allow players to go aboard the ship.

-Turret
Holds 1 Person
Stationary Turret
Main Abilites: Rocket Blast, Incendiary Rocket
Lined along the Towers attached to the Keep.
If destroyed, players can repair it by left clicking the broken turret.

-Huge Seaforium Bomb
Main Abilites: Place Huge Seaforium Bomb
Obtained from inside the Keeps and Workshop.

THE GENERALS

-Horde
Overlord Agmar
Shows up after the Horde's Keep Wall is destroyed. Kill him to win.

-Alliance
High Commander Halford Wyrmbane
Shows up after the Alliance's Keep Wall is destroyed. Kill him to win.

THE RESOURCES
Refinery
Holds valuable oil to fuel the ravaging war machines of the controller.
The faction who has control over this resource gains Oil Refinery

Quarry
A mine filled with precious Cobalt used to smelt thick armor for the controller's armies.
The faction who has control over this resource gains Qaurry

Controlling either one of these nodes yields a constant flow of Honor. Yup, that's right.

Comment by 306228

They have changed it from the way it is in all the other BG's in WSG EotS and AV alliance is in the north and horde in the south.
By the way the map is coloured it looks like they have turned it around with this one.

Comment by tviksas

im thinking... will it kill av? :(

Comment by 407399

This is a great new battleground that opened in 3.2.

It works like AV as in you kill the general and you have reinforcements.

It also works like WG as with the vehicles, workshops and seaforuim bombs (clever blizz, C4uim).

It also works to some extent like AB with the different recources.

Here are some of the highlights of the BG in detail.

use different siege vehicles to breach the enemy wall! The demolisher, Siege engine, Glaive thrower* and catapult!*
Defend your keep using built in turrets (left click to repair)
Capture the Hangar and grab a Seaforuim bomb and skydive right into the opponents base and blow them from the inside-out!
Or even better (I.E. far more humorous) launch yourself with the new catapult right into the enemy base with your paratrooper buddies and help blow them all up!
Use the new glaive thrower to maul opponents from a distance!

Need honor? No problem! Capture the Quarry or Refinery to yield a constant flow of honor right into your back pocket!

Very nice work blizzard! Keep it coming

Comment by 138326

Here are some interesting things that you can find while in the Isle of Conquest:

In the North-east part of the zone, you can find Scarlet Onslaught ships a few yards from the shore. Looks like the Scarlet's want some of the resources as well!
If you look to the east of the island, you can find a giant land mass, what could that be? hmmm...

Also, if you use the catapult you can go to the hangar and launch yourself on top, you are able to camp yourself and wait for the horde/alliance to leave it defenseless and capture it.

EDIT: it should also be noted that if you go too far to the east (or too far from the island in that matter) you will enter a zone called 'no man's land' and will be instantly killed. This buff will also kill you even if your using a water walk, so no, you can not get to Icecrown via the Isle of Conquest instance.

Comment by 406117

As of the time I write this, the Hangar is, in my eyes, the most important of the siege production nodes. This stems from two reasons.

One: you can't attack the airship. Where as with the Docks or Workshop, which create vehicles you drive up into the fight, the airship flies on a predetermined course high, high in the sky. While players can use the keep's turrets or go out on foot to destroy approaching vehicles, the airship is too far away to be attacked by players or turrets.

Two: It allows you to paradrop massive amounts of troops into the enemy base. It's interesting to note that while the keep does have turrets, none of them can shoot inside the courtyard. The only threat to paradropping players are other, enemy players. While you'd think the enemy players would have the home field advantage (they respawn there, after all,) that's not the case. The airship can quite effectively lay down suppressive fire that will quickly injure or kill anyone who gets hit.

At first glance, you would think it'd be more effective to bring up a massive machine of war than to just drop in and plant bombs. The reason paradropping is so effective, though, is that there is no limit to how many people can drop inside and plant bombs. You are limited on the other machines, however; two catapults, two glaive throwers, and four demolishers at one time.

Twenty people armed with Huge Seaforium Bombs, assisted by the five player controlled cannons from the airship, can very quickly do a lot of damage to a gate.

Comment by 253465

Playing as a gnome rogue I found it very easy to cap and hold the flags until reinforcements arrived.

- After taking flag I hid, someone would take the flag but then run off (resource areas) to get into the fun fighting. I would just recap it before it switched fully over. If they came back then start the fight and distracting until others show up.

- If capturing the flag it is easy to sneak in and take it over as people are normally generally running for the Airship/Glaves. Once I cap it if someone goes to take the flag, well timed saps will stop them long enough to almost capture it. On the third sap you have to engage in combat with them.

- If you plan to capture while there are a large number of forces, my team would draw the combat away from the flag while I captured it and then joined the fight. They were normally oblivious to this.

- The refinery/quarry flags are on high areas. This makes it good for rogues to escape and confuse hunters (I had three hunters looking for me on the boat while I was under it).

Only real way to counter it is AOE spam just before you start the capture. But again once they think they have the flag they run away.

Oh and the catapaults are funny. :) Watched some Horde guy launch himself 4 times before he realised it doesn't shoot ammo. Silly moo. :)

Comment by Anjealous

The landmass u see is Icecrown and the stormwright shelf from scholozar, u can see in the distance the big vykrul fort of icecrown and the scarlet island, but if u keep swimmin u enter No man's land where u die instantly haha

downrated this? ooook lol

Comment by GaeBolge

Just wanted to compare this to something that I'v seen abit in my battlegroup (Cyclone) and see what other players think. Even with the above strategy which seems to me like a premade strategy (need a well groomed and synergized group to actually stay in there base for awhile, or at least competent players) the enemy faction seems able to balance it out and come out on top by using the Oil Refinery and Quarry's buffs to there advantage.

You've got probably 35 or so players inside a base using C4 on the gate, for 6k or so each blast. But for the other side, grabing the other nodes and for a total of 30% increased seige damage https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/spell=68719, several heavy seige tanks and there own players using catapaults to gain access to C4 themselves, wouldn't the team controling all the nodes have a much higher damage on the door and a higher chance of winning?

Thats what it seems like to me, and it worries me that the more players see this strategy and try it in a highly uncoordinated or fully pugged BG, the higher chance of it not working. Your thoughts? And I do play Horde, so there are quite abit of uncoordinated battlegrounds -.-

Comment by Fjobben

I think Blizzard did a great job on the new BG, it s big, well made and full of new exotic things, though they need to balance it a little:
I think Blizzard did plan on making it a long BG, like AV was years ago, but now everyone just goes to hangar and onboard the ship and a 7 min win. I think they should ´buff´he dock to equalize the hangar and also the Workshop in the middle, so that if one faction has Hangar, the other one still has a chance, also, they could change the boss to have more chance at the invaders, he always dies instantly. I hope Blizzard will make changes soon, but this BG looks very good.

EDIT: They actually did! Docks are now the best, with workshop and hangar close ahead, in my opinion, go to the Docks and Workshop, hold them until gates are breached, then go hangar and let everyone jump from the airship to the opposite base and let the cannons take down the defenders.

Comment by TheMaelstorm

Jumping from a bombing ship into enemy base?
What else can you ask from a battleground? :)

Comment by Gamefr3ak

I can't wait to try this BG, next time I am in a Major city...

Comment by 134687

from my experience it is a great BG but still has a zerg win strategy to it.

I.E. zerging hangar is now the primary action and the fight ther seems to determine the outcome. Alliance have the advantage as they are a tad closer to it.

Comment by 431547

The Isle of Conquest is a point of strategic importance for the Alliance and Horde campaigns in Northrend. Serving as an ideal staging ground for operations in Icecrown, each side is determined to secure control of the island. With the 7th Legion and the Kor'kron Guard locked in deadly combat, both factions have issued...

Comment by 429552

tabard has indeed been obtained already... and, get this... the person slept! twice!

Comment by Vlad

Biggest issue at the moment is that you can rush for the Airship to capture it and then just have all jump from it down and inside the other factions keep and use the bombs there to blow up the door, after ~3 minutes the gate will be destroyed (when several people help planting bombs) and you can basically zerg the boss. The whole battle can take between 5-10 minutes to win, 500 honor roughly but 3 marks and +1 win for the 100 win achievement in a very short time.

Otherwise a regular battle where you try and defend as much as possible will take anything from 20 to 45 minutes and reward let's say 3k honor but you earn more doing the rush mode in the long run. ;)

Comment by 283327

I love this place, its so much like Strand of the Ancients and Wintergrasp combined!

Comment by 243350

Is there any vendor?

Comment by 251217

The hanger is a bit less important now. The Huge Seaforium Bombs are now consumable, so there is a limit to how much damage you can do.

An additional note, the graveyards work like AV. I won a game because the alliance had all the graveyards except for their own keep. Everyone who died spawned at their graveyard, and so we simple entered their keep and killed their general before they finished clearing though the remainder of our defenders.

Comment by 438109

Another fun little fact is if you go to the north east corner of the isle you go into a zone saying "Isle of Conquest No Man's Land" :)

Comment by vigilpriest

Given that the level range is 71-80, and the battles being fairly short, it'd be interesting to see the viability of BG leveling in this zone.

Comment by rzzr

Currently the docks seems to be the new hanger as Glaives are the new Airship!

Comment by kapitalizmus

How can i get there?

Comment by mixter

oil derick? bomber planes? IT'S GLOBAL WARMING ALL OVER AGAIN!

SAVE THE TREES (not counting resto druids)

Comment by 451085

best place to get honor fast granted you have the time wg also gives great honor , but its a little bit less

Comment by 466516

I know people say that Blizzard is just ripping off FPS games, but I don't see it as a bad thing. It's like taking two of my favorite things and mixing them together.

Comment by 272046

So, all the comments on this page are basically positive - so why the hell can I never get a game in while I am playing? I've had 3+ hour queues for this Battleground. I would actually like to see it. :(

I'll keep trying! I hope it's as cool as everyone says.

Comment by Arsonyst

Hey Isle, I'm real happy for you, and imma let you finish, but AV was one of the best BG's ever.

Comment by 299179

about how much health does each gate have? the alli/horde gates i mean of course.

Comment by human414

for some reason the lvl 71-79 span Isle Of Conquest bg never comes up its like lvls 71-79 dont like it cause it says unavailable to me

Comment by adsamcik

Last battleground is really nice. You can try 3 types of attacs to enemy castle. With catapults: jump over the wall. With siege vehicles: destroy their walls and with air force :) jump with parachute to their courtyard. There are 4 types of rideable vehicles(Siege engine(Better than Wintergrasp), catapult, demolisher and Glaive Thrower) + cannons. added in patch 3.2.0

Comment by 408955

He swung his axe in a great arc almost entirely severing the head of a felhound looking to creep up behind him. Somewhere nearby a warlock howled in outrage as he felt his connection with the demon severed. The battle was going well, the 7th legion were falling back, however Zaphiroc knew the counterattack would come soon, the commander was a worthy adversary
and had bloodied the Horde many times in its campaign in the harsh land of northrend. Looking around the Warrior noticed the fighting beginning to intensify on the left flank where a few hundred Alliance had dug in aound their catapults, which were busy pounding away at the fortress gate. From somewhere horns sounded, Orcish horns, answering cries were raised and the warriors started to charge, flights of arrows flew overhead pummelling the enemy
position mercilessly, a few arrows came flying back but it was scattered and for the most part way overshot. Zaphiroc smiled, it was a harsh smile, devoid of any true emotion, but the forsaken warrior was incapable of true emotion, dying did that to a man. Joining the fray his axe flew from left to right cleavng shields and limbs, the bloodlust was upon him, the screams of men and horses, the death grunts of horde soldiers, it all went by in a blur. And suddenly it was over.
the Alliance were in full retreat leaving dead and wounded behind. the field belonged to the Horde for now. everywhere soldiers fell to their knees in sheer exhaustion, the battle was hard won, many of the hordes elite, the kor'kron, lay dead and dying. Yes the battlefield belonged to the the Horde, but just how long could it be held against a foe obsessed with ther precious Faith in the so called light. strapping his axe to his back, again Zaphiroc smiled and relished the battles to come..

Comment by Ketho

-- WotLK Data

Huge Seaforium Bombs (Workshop), Carrying Huge Seaforium -> Place Huge Seaforium Bomb -> Huge Seaforium Bomb ->
Seaforium Bombs (Keep), Carrying Seaforium -> Place Seaforium Bomb -> Seaforium Bomb ->
Horde Gate: Front, West, East (All Gates have 600K HP, there really is no difference between Front and Side Gates)
Alliance Gate: Front, West, East (AddOns can track Gate Health by just tracking the SPELL_BUILDING_DAMAGE combat event)

Siege Damage Compared:
(This ofcourse does not represent actual DPS numbers. Damage is mostly higher, with Oil Refinery & Quarry)

9425 to 10575 Fire --- (Workshop)
4713 to 5287 Fire --- (Keep)
4242 to 4758 Physical --- (Glaive Thrower)
4242 to 4758 Fire --- (Siege Engine's Siege Turret)
1885 to 2115 Physical --- (Demolisher)
1414 to 1586 Fire --- (Demolisher)
1500 Physical --- (Siege Engine)
943 to 1057 Fire --- (Gunship Cannon)
250 Physical --- Global Thermal Sapper Charge (Goblin Engineering)
150 Physical --- Saronite Bomb (Engineering)

Notes:
- (*) = Damage component
- (A) = Alliance counterpart
- Glaive Thrower's Blade Salvo doesn't do siege damage
- Oil Refinery & Quarry dont affect - Saronite Bomb & Global Thermal Sapper Charge

Comment by 408043

I hate the catapult! It doesn't fling me like it should, all it does when i click the "Launch" it just kicks me out of the vehicle as if i clicked the "leave Vehicle" button. Really annoying.

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The Refinery and Quarry each buff siege weapon damage and replenish reinforcements.

The Docks allows your faction to control Glaive Throwers and Catapults. Catapults allow players to jump into the enemy's fortress and begin bombing the walls from the inside. Glaive Throwers are very deadly, but also very fragile.

The Workshop allows your faction to control various Siege Vehicles. It is also located in the center of the map, so it's a strategic graveyard.

The Hangar allows your faction to board the airship and bomb the enemy's fortress from above.

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