BURNING CRUSADE CLASSIC Will Be Testing Same Faction Battlegrounds This Weekend

Battleground and PvP Enthusiasts rejoice! Blizzard has announced that they will be testing SAME faction battlegrounds in The Burning Crusade Classic to improve the PvP experience!

By GBest - Jul 01, 2021 12:07 PM EST

Filed Under: World of Warcraft

Great news for Horde and Alliance PvP enthusiasts that are on faction dominated realms as Blizzard announced today through a new blue text post that they will be testing same faction battlegrounds for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic this weekend! Hopefully this will help players with the long queues and wait times for battlegrounds so that they can unlock their desired PvP gear!

The full blue text is included below:

Hello, Battleground enthusiasts!

As soon as we saw Battleground queue times go way up a few weeks ago, we got to work on our options for addressing the situation. They’ve all been discussed here and elsewhere, as you know, and in addition to following your discussions closely, we looked at game history and data. What was most evident from all of your feedback was: players want to continue to play on their chosen side of the faction conflict, players don’t want to wait in long queues for BGs, and players don’t want a highly convoluted mechanism for getting into a BG.

To solve those issues as best we can, we’ve been internally testing a configuration where the War Games system is used to bring about Horde vs. Horde or Alliance vs. Alliance Battlegrounds from the regular queue, and we’re ready to test it in the live game. Here’s the plan:

Starting tomorrow (Friday, July 2), we’re going to enable same-faction Battlegrounds.

You’ll queue for BGs as usual, and the matchmaker will first try to make an opposite-faction match for you.

If an opposite-faction match cannot be quickly made, you’ll be matched against a team from your faction.

Rewards such as Honor and Reputation will be assigned as usual.

We’ve been thinking of these like military training exercises, and to help get that feeling across in-game, we’re testing putting masks and tabards on the team playing out of the enemy faction’s base.

Please note that same-faction play won’t be available for Alterac Valley, which was never hooked up for War Games and would be particularly awkward for the team that found themselves fighting alongside a great number of enemy NPCs.

We’ll follow the action closely throughout the weekend, and with scheduled maintenance next week (July 6 in this region), we’re going to return the matchmaker to its regular configuration and analyze what happened.

When same-faction play goes live tomorrow, we’ll open a new feedback thread in this forum. After you’ve played some BGs, please come to that new thread and let us know how it went.

Thank you!

If you want to read the forum post and see/participate in the comments, click here!

What are your thoughts on the announcement for same faction battlegrounds? Do you think this will solve the faction queue time problem in TBC classic? Are you a Horde or Alliance player? Let us know your thoughts in the usual place down below!

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BURNING CRUSADE CLASSIC Will Be Testing Same Faction Battlegrounds This Weekend

Battleground and PvP Enthusiasts rejoice! Blizzard has announced that they will be testing SAME faction battlegrounds in The Burning Crusade Classic to improve the PvP experience!

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