Posted by Spooner | 3 Comments
Grizzly Hills: I want more PVP
Grizzly Hills was an awesome idea an amazing and beautiful zone that gets zero attention right now, and that’s sad.
Wintergrasp is the high profile seller for Blizzard. You can tell they put work into it and a lot of players participate in it. There’s good rewards and siege vehicles and about the only thing I would change is to allow you to fly over when there is NOT a bettle going on. Flying and PVP is a terrible idea, hence how Halaa and world PVP in Outland was a failure and yet world PVP and the sunwell isle area was the most fucking popular thing since Tarren Mill + Southshore.
Grizzly Hills has amazing PVE lore through the demigod Ursoc, Yogg-saron and the origins of saronite and the world tree Zordrassil, and the beginings of the Drakuru story arc. It has great PVP aspects as well! The Horde and the Alliance are in the zone for one reason and one reason only; gather resources for themselves and deny them from the enemy.
You have Alliance trying to recruit natives and secure logging and mining areas as well as hunt wildlife for food stores or mounts. At the same time you have the Horde doing the exact same thing; fighting for lumber, securing mining operations, killing the natives so the alliance can’t recruit them, killing or scaring off wild horses to deny the alliance fresh mounts. It’s an amazing zone. But why is it so desolate once the majority of the players reach 80? Obviously the quests and mob levels are designed to make the zone a great place to level with not much end game content, but the PVP hubs are great.
The entire zone has multiple areas where you can pickup something like 13 daily PVP quests that require you to preform various tasks like fueling and repairing shredders or killing off Alliance players or NPCs. You can even ride a torpedo bareback as it slams into the hull of an enemy supply barge; YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THAT’S COOL!
But alas you never hear about Grizzly Hills being rebalanced or given attention or players actually in the zone partaking. Granted the venture coin rewards aren’t any good at all considering how fast you outgrow them, but maybe in the future Blizzard will give a little love to the zone?
By the way I have no idea who Kalm is but he’s a cool cat in my book.
You almost manage to make it sound fun. =)
I was on a PVP server for a while, mostly due to friends there asking me to come over, but in part it was based on some of the articles you’ve written. 3 months I was on Kil’Jaeden before I realized PVP was not for me.
The guild was awesome, I got to experience a lot of content but the PVP is what killed the place for me.
I hated that I needed a bodyguard to mine.
I hated that I needed a bodyguard to quest.
I hated that I needed a bodyguard to do freakin’ dailies.
I hated having to fight my way into Naxx, or instances because some asshats got bees up their butts. =)
World PVP was about the only thing I experienced and it sucked. There were typically three scenarios:
1) Multiple Horde would attack me.
2) A stealthed rogue or druid in cat form would jump me, stun lock me, and kill me.
3) Some douchebag would wait until I was engaged with some mob or mobs and then attack.
Though what you describe above sounds like fun I think perhaps that it is wishful thinking, I’m afraid my opinion of most of my fellow players is not very high. =)
I have to believe that the accounts you wrote are true because I hear it pretty much everywhere but to be honest, I’ve ONLY ever played on PVP servers and yeah there’s a pretty rare world PVP scenario where somebody is outwardly trying to gank you.
Yeah there’s PVP around meeting stones because it’s about the only place you can get folks to sit down for a few seconds, but as soon as the group all shows up players will zone in to the raid or dungeon.
The only places I can see PVP 100% of the time was in the Sunwell Isle during TBC. I see PVP in Sholazar Basin typically when there’s more than a handful of people mining.
I started out on Durotan – normal, got fed up with guild drama so I moved to Silver Hand – RP. It wasn’t active enough and my friends at Kil’Jaeden sang hymns of praise for their guild Concordis (which is pretty damn awesome I must admit).
I loved the guild, but the sad fact was all the pointless ganking got to be too much for me so I moved back to Silver Hand and was let back into my old guild. =)
Sholazar is wretchedly over mined usually, I gave up on it real early at KJ. Ice Crown is my preferred spot to mine now.
I don’t think I ever went to Quel’Danas while on KJ. Of course Wrath was out so I’m sure it would have been nearly empty like Shattrath usually is.