Just finished AV for the honor quest in the 20th anniversary celebration and it got me thinking. I never post on the forums and just posting this to get it off my chest in the hopes of providing some feedback for the developers.
My first game ever was Warcraft 2 and I grew up in my teens addicted to Warcraft 3. The last time I PvPed was in Legion and BFA because of the incredible limited time Alliance-themed transmogs that I couldn’t pass up. But even then, I spammed arenas to farm conquest because even those are way more bearable than battlegrounds. I would love a reason to want to play bgs but they don’t feel like bgs. They feel like massive storms that you survive by staying on the outside and just poke at it with the longest ranged spells you have so that you stay alive and maybe get a kill here and there.
Imagine an Alterac Valley designed closer to the version in Heroes of the Storm. Taking advantage of the improvements to npc AI and having them openly clash with each other while the players take on more of an actual hero role similar to Warcraft 3. Spawn multiple objectives that the players have to fight over that will empower the npcs to the point where the team that better controls the objectives will cause their armies to overwhelm the other side - forcing a cap on the timer of every game to avoid the infamous never-ending games.
I realize this was kind of attempted already with the Warfronts. To this day I think it’s sad that they weren’t iterated on and abandoned due to how poorly they were received. They were dreadful to play, but I think they were a step in the right direction to bringing the “War” back to “Warcraft”. Perhaps that technology could be repurposed to fixing existing battlegrounds instead of sinking massive developer resources into trying to build brand new ones. Just scrap the resource gathering and base building nonsense (that’s for peasants/peons, not heroes) replace it with more skirmish-based objectives that are actually interesting.
I don’t know how big Blizzard’s team dedicated to PvP is, I don’t know if anything is being worked on such as the lag issues. I don’t know if my idea is any good or if it’s been suggested before or if I’m just some rando spouting nonsense.
The only thing I do know for sure is, as a PvEer, I would love a reason to get back into PvP. Battlegrounds that more closely resembled the gameplay of Warcraft 3, I feel, would go a long way towards that.