How this managed to slip past us, we'll never know. Wednesday night, Kalgan (also known as Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton) hit the official forums to drop some news regarding rated battlegrounds in Cataclysm.



BLUE POST:
KalganWe're currently expecting both normal and rated battlegrounds to be cross-battlegroup (within a region) for the launch of Cataclysm. So, players queueing from anywhere in North America (for example) could play vs players on any North American battlegroup, etc. This applies to all regions, not just North America.


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Yes, battlegrounds will no longer be locked to battlegroups in the coming expansion. The pool of players to pull from is going to grow dramatically with this change, which can only be a good thing. It also has interesting implications for PvE content. Cross-realm battlegrounds came long before cross-realm 5-mans via the dungeon finder, so cross-battlegroup battlegrounds could potentially suggest that the dungeon finder will pull from the entire region eventually as well. With the Battle.net revamp and the incoming Real ID features, what realm we play on may become less and less relevant for anything but the guild we're in and which faction holds Tol Barad.

Also the fact that we are now able to do rated battlegrounds is a massive step forward for WoW more rewards by doing them and we can somewhat get a really tactical and advanced game rather then a boring clueless pug.

Be interesting to see what happens re: Arena as titles are awarded battlegroup based.

yer im lforward to the old titles being back

Really? I actually dont like the fact that you can re get those titles.

which old titles?

I assume these unless im mistaken on which titles are being brought back.

Private Scout
Corporal Grunt
Sergeant Sergeant
Master Sergeant Senior Sergeant
Sergeant Major First Sergeant
Knight Stone Guard
Knight-Lieutenant Blood Guard
Knight-Captain Legionnaire
Knight-Champion Centurion
Lieutenant Commander Champion
Commander Lieutenant General
Marshal General
Field Marshal Warlord
Grand Marshal

**** that bro, Blood Guard Panzotron will meen nuffin

Im currently ranked 7th in frostmourne battlegroup with my pvp lock.

going to be a lot of cut virgin prebc playerz

Does your sig refer to team unknown?

fight club actually

lol andrew.

Still getting carried by Tsunami?

Yeah, carried to realm first shaman etc. When will the carrying stop? [sm-upset2]