Hi,
No idea where else to post this and its probably coming in kinda late, but I guess since I haven’t really seen anything to this tune anywhere else, I might as well post it since Blizz did say to give them feedback, or whatever.
The battlegrounds system right now has a number of issues, and while many of those issues come from PVP itself, I’d like to keep those out of the post since that’s not what this is about.
There’s a okayish mesh of available content for BGers nowadays, especially since brawls have 100% uptime finally, but there’s some stuff that could be done to give a little more QOL and keep things interesting.
I suggest the following improvements, most of which are not heavy lifts at all and could be done pretty easily:
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Convert the Cooking Impossible brawl to a regular BG and include it in the random BG queue. They could add achievements and stuff for it later on like they have going on with the other regular BGs as well, but the Cooking Impossible event is a unique game mode that doesn’t really have anything else comparable in the game right now, whereas brawls are typically a clone of an existing game mode, with a (or a few) added twist(s).
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Add Twin Peaks into the Deep Six brawl. There’s some issues here yeah I get it, but they’re both CTF maps/modes so whatever issues there are will be the same for WSG and TP, no reason not to include it imo.
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Deepwind Dunk could also be moved to the random BG queue as again there isn’t really anything else like this one in the game. Basically all the stuff I said for Cooking Impossible applies here too.
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Convert Southshore vs. Tarren Mill into an epic BG. The epic BGs right now are pretty lacking in terms of variety, and there isn’t really another one thats just a straight up fight (except for turtle AV’s I guess). No reason other than nostalgia why SSvTM couldn’t be moved over.
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Rename Warsong Scramble to something like CTF Scramble and include Twin peaks in the queue. They both flag maps so why not.
Basically the issues are that there’s 12 brawls right now (and whatever else they add in the future), meaning each brawl happens once every ~3months, which is a long time. BG’s as a whole have also been suffering massively for fresh content, where we only get like 1 new BG MAYBE each expansion. Hell we didn’t even get anything new for SL, just the Kyrian arena map that assaults ur framerate the whole time.
Yes, we desperately need new BG maps/games, but I’ll admit that those are a pretty heavy lift in terms of designer/developer workload. DO please put some effort into those, but in the meantime these would provide some nice QOL/variety to the masses.
TLDR: Some minor improvements/variety to existing brawls and make the unique brawls permanent + include in random/epic Queue. Not as good as adding new BGs/Brawls, but still beneficial and way easier.