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PVP Overview

From WoW: IncGamers World of Warcraft Wiki

1 World PVP
2 Arena
3 The Eye of the Storm
4 Old Battlegrounds

World PVP

Every zone in Outland has new "World PVP" objectives - all i have been able to see and try were variations of capturing a place - either city or some building. The capturing buildings is simple - turn your PVP on (and dont use stealth of course) and just wait for place to turn to your faction. If there are players from opposite faction you are calling for being killed (kill them before) or outnumbered - as i understood so far, side with more players available wins the capture as there is a timer running - you can see the time on your screen.

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Hellfire Peninsula

Hellfire Peninsula PVP

In middle of zone are three buildings - The Overlook, The Stadium and Broken Hill. You can capture them for your faction by just waiting there with PVP on. There is also quest for capturing them - rewards are "Mark of Honor Hold".

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Zangarmarsh

Zangarmarsh PVP with visible timer

Place called Twin Spire Ruins is located in middle of zone. It has two "beacons" and graveyard in middle. Capture left and right tower, then run to your faction officer (map shows their location as little flag) where you can grab the flag. With flag run back and capture gravyeard - it's not automatic. Time to capture beacon is few minutes - you can see status the same way as in previous zone (see the screenshot below, just below the minimap).

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Nagrand

In middle of Nagrand is town called Halaa - it can be captured for your faction - i haven't tried it yet fully but it looks interesting and fun - at four roads into city there are piles of wood which you can capture (just "open" them) and they turn into flying mount station. You can use it and you will be given bombs which you can throw at defenders of Halaa - mount just does about three circles above the city, then lands. You can repeat this as many times you want. The point of doing is to kill defenders of City - when all are killed, city is yours. I guess you can kill them by yourself as well.

There is also Arena located in Nagrand - it's not World PVP, but 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 match. Will return to it later.

Terokkar Forest

PVP Towers in Terokkar Forest

Haven't tried this one (my priest is bit low for running around in this zone), but seems there are five four towers around Auchindoun which you can capture. The tower is visible on next picture. This PVP place will be bit harder than others - it's full of higher level undead and spiders :)

After all five towers are captured by one faction the towers become uncapturable for 5 hours, a countdown timer shows up in the top center of the screen.

The faction owning towers will receive zone buff [Blessing of Auchindoun] - XP gain increased by 5%, damage increased by 5%, allows the capture of Spirit Shards.

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Arena

Arena inside

Arena is new place where 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5 matches happen - i was able to enter Arena few times in Beta (not too much ppl testing PVP) - so at least i have a feeling how it works :) There are Arena masters in places where battlegrounds NPCs were - you can sign for any size of match and then just wait. While in Arena you are thrown into small building (arena style) with your oponents - when you are killed, there is no rezzing, so the match is about to kill opposing team.

Arena itself is located in Nagrand (Ring of Trials) - you can enter the building there and you will gain PVP status. I guess it is possible to do "public" PVP in there. Otherwise standard 2v2/3v3/5v5 matches are running like battlegrounds.

Outside the Arena is Arena Master for signing in for fight and "King Dond" with title Arena Promoter - it seems that anybody wishing to create a Arena teams must purchase Arena Charter and get his players to sign this charter (similar to guild creation). The price of Arena Chartes is 50G

Entering Arena is possible in "Practice Battle" and "Rated Battle" - as name implies, the "Practice Battle" will let you just practive with other randomly picked up players, while "Rated Battle" is the battle where you get (or loose) your rating. But no other details yet :)

Arena place is also in Blade's Edge Mountains - called Circle of Blood (do not mistake it with Ring of Blood in Nagrand). As BEM zone is not yet finished it is not know how this other Arena will differ from Nagrand's one.