



Drums of War can already be heard in the distance, an ancient call to defend your faction and sing ballads of victory in every tavern and city through Azeroth.





The eternal fight for power and domination is now a common effort; not only those prepared for the battle are the chosen ones to enjoy these challenges and rewards, everyone from the same faction is.





We are very glad to present to you our Weekly Battleground Tournament, a faction-wide collaborative event that will allow both the Alliance and the Horde to fight for glory. This event will be an ongoing Tournament and will start on the 6th of December at 15:00 Server Time.





This tournament is designed to promote PvP in a PvE focused server. Our intention is to encourage each faction’s participation in every Battleground's bracket. We have tried to make it interesting with its cyclic form and the faction-wide rewards so any kind of player can overcome their PvP blockage and turn into the bloodthirsty enemies you have always feared.





With time, the PvP aspect should be more active thanks to the participation of the community. Therefore, we will be including more perks, rewards, and challenges to the Tournament as it increases in popularity.





For now, we have prepared a few initial rewards that will rotate each week and will benefit both the PvP and PvE aspects of the game while trying to increase the interest towards PvP gradually.





This Weekly Battleground Tournament should also contribute towards making the Northrend’s Heroic Dungeons and Raids more active thanks to the faction-wide perks.





How will it work?





The system is really easy to understand.





There will be a Battleground counter which will be reset every week (Fridays 15:00 p.m Server Time), the faction with more Battlegrounds won that week will be considered the winner and will be enjoying the faction-wide rewards until the next Friday’s reset.





For this, we have prepared a new PVP section on our website where you can see the weekly winner, Battleground statistics, Tournament history, active and upcoming rewards/perks...etc.





After each Friday’s Tournament reset, the rewards will be available for the winner faction. There is no need to do anything as a player: just enjoy the perks and keep pushing!





All the relevant information will be broadcasted everywhere each week: in-game notifications, website, our social networks...etc.





In the future, this website’s PvP section will also include some top rankings (H.Ks...etc), as well as some extra interesting data. We are also going to dedicate a space for Wintergrasp, Gurubashi Arena and capital cities raids into the Weekly Battleground Tournament along with the introduction of more enjoyable features.





How can you participate?





By just doing Battlegrounds. There is no need to do anything special, just participate in any kind of Battleground from level 10 to 80. Unless there are some specifications for a particular week, the level or the Battleground does not matter.





What are the Faction-wide rewards?





The faction-wide rewards are some perks that every player from the winning faction will be able to enjoy for a week, there is no need to participate in order to benefit from them though. It is a very similar case to the Stone-Keeper Shards from Wintergrasp.





There will be two kinds of rewards: static and random. The entire winner faction will benefit from them until the next reset.





- Static rewards : These are the perks that will always be active for the current winner faction. If your faction wins, you can enjoy them at least until the next Friday’s reset.





A post with all the possible rewards and specifications will be released shortly.





Some of the initial static rewards:

Extra emblem drop from certain WoTLK raid bosses (e.g: Naxxramas last bosses from each wing, Ulduar’s Keepers...etc). Emblems will drop individually for each player, based on their character progression (Frost for ICC attuned players).

25% chance to have an extra emblem drop upon finishing a WoTLK Heroic Dungeon through the RDF tool. Emblems will drop individually for each player, based on their character progression (Frost for ICC attuned players).

Extra XP in Dungeons and Battlegrounds.





- Random rewards : These are additional perks that will be changing each week randomly and will be available for the winner faction.





Some of the initial random rewards:

Extra Honor.

Extra Wintergrasp rewards.

Battleground Marks of Honor available.

Extra reward/drop from Vanilla and TBC raids.

Vote/Donation Shop discounts.

Services discounts.





Regardless of the faction winner, the level 80 battlegrounds will grant a small amount of Arena Points during the Tournament.





A quick example:





1) The Friday 6th of December the WBT will start.

2) Then, the next week, on Friday 13th the reset will happen at 12:00 pm and that faction who won the most Battlegrounds shall be declared the winner.

3) A new week starts, therefore the Battleground counter starts from 0 again and all the static rewards become available for the winner faction, plus one of the random ones until the next reset.

4) And this gets repeated every week.





Why this kind of Tournament?





Our intentions are to bring the competitive PvP scene back alive. We consider this to be one of the firsts steps. We think that by making it a faction-wide collaborative effort and rewards, it may ease the participation and reinforce the faction feeling of victory. And by being able to collaborate no matter the level or the battleground will help towards a common goal: be the winners that week. So everyone with a bit of curiosity about PvP could help to achieve that weekly goal and, bit by bit, keep improving and get into the PvP scene more and more. Practice makes the master.