World of Warcraft

What is Wintergrasp?

Wintergrasp is a world PvP zone (designed for lvl 77-80), Features a keep at the North end that the Hord and Allaince fight to control.  Whom ever controls the Keep gets access to Special Vendors and quest givers, Access to a Raid Dungeon and Memeber of the controlling faction gets a world wide +EXP buff.

How does it Work?

The Zone has graveyards and seige work shops spread out around the Zone who ever has control of these gives obvious benefits.  Every 30mins the segie workshops become capturable and the attacking force has 45mins to take the KEEP.  The attackers have to use seige weapons to break through the outer wall(s).. then the inner wall(s) and then the Keep door... behind which is some giant ball thing.?!!?

Failing to take the keep in the 45mins means the defender get to keep it and another battle starts 30mins later.

If you faction is out numbered you get a +HP and +ATT BUFF to help.

My Thoughts

I just so happened to come across a wintergrasp portal in Dalaran so off I went.  I arrived and there was 6mins untill the battle started.. I headed for the keep and came across horde and allaince having a scrap about 30 players or so.  I was only lvl 72, most of the hord were high 70's or 80 so I just picked off the weak ones.  Before I knew it battle had kicked off.  I ran the closest seige workshop to see what it was all about.

There are currently 3 land vechicals in WG,

1. mechanical ram - carries 3 payers, 1 operator 2 others hide inside and can jumpo out at will.
2. Catapult #1 - 1 person vechial that launches posion barrels and a cone of fire in front of it.
3. Catapult #2 - 3 person vechial, the driver drives and operates the catapult, 2 others stand on the sides and can use their normal attacks (only realy good for range classes)

Players can jump in and out of the vechials at any time and also swap position just like BF1942.

Alliance held 4 seige workshops and could build a max of 16 vechicals, players had to be a certain rank to build vechials, rank earned by killing players in WG.

There were only a small number of players about 20-25 allaince and a similar number of horde so the battle was very concentrated on the western side of the keep.  

First impressions this is great, feels good and reminds me so much of WC3... but as will all siege style gameplay it will live or die on the number of players who participate, the more the better. No game does siege like this.

Here are some pics.

I must say, even though i have grown tired of wow, Wotlk is shaping up to be a better expansion than TBC. Heck, I may have to reinstall WoW (again)

Already pre-ordered my copy.  It looks amazing.

i just cant wait to play the expansion, all the world pvp, awesome areas and dungeons, omg 1 month to go guys

Must say that i am looking forward to this expansion more and more each week. Wintergrasp looks like it will recapture some of those old prime time large scale battles that used to be played out at Crossroads and such, but with a new level added to the gameplay. Great stuff.

Wintergrasp is a world PvP zone (designed for lvl 77-80), Features a keep at the North end that the Hord and Allaince fight to control. Whom ever controls the Keep gets access to Special Vendors and quest givers, Access to a Raid Dungeon and Memeber of the controlling faction gets a world wide +EXP buff.

So say the Hord wins... and they leave to go to their new raid zones... how long does the Raid zone stay open to them? 30 mins plus the 45 mins for the battle? Or until they are done with the zone?

I just hope that over half of them (the winning side) doesnt  just pick up and leave so they can do those new quest/raids.

Other then that it does look promising

Coffee: could you enter the zone?

I thought it could only be entered in the level 77 - 80 bracket.

I just can imagine what this is going to be: best PvP ever.

BTW just came off a rather long fight over the Towers in Terrokar Forest. Great fun when it happens. And won of course after half an hour :)))

Originally posted by bodypass

Coffee: could you enter the zone?

I thought it could only be entered in the level 77 - 80 bracket.

I just can imagine what this is going to be: best PvP ever.

BTW just came off a rather long fight over the Towers in Terrokar Forest. Great fun when it happens. And won of course after half an hour :)))

 

 

Thats what I thought, there is no way to get there on foot, but there is a flight point once your there that links to other points.  So I guess If blizzard take away the portal in Dalaran on live servers a lock could summon you up there.

Nice screens there. Wintergrasp is looking really good.