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[Luci]

Since the dungeons are so hard to get these days on Beta, we have decided to test out the new battleground: Tol Barad.

We already spoke about Twin Peaks Battleground and some older Cataclysm Exploration episode. For Tol Barad we needed a bunch of tries because there are very few people on Beta lately (we've no idea why).
Tol Barad will be the Cataclysm Wintergrasp. It's an outdoor non-instanced battleground filled with daily quests, with more quests for the winners, as always. The factions who fight over controlling the Tol Barad are Baradin Wardens for the Alliance and Hellscream's Reach for the Horde. There is nothing like reputation or anything (yet, anyhow) with any of these factions.
The area is split in two: The PvP area, where everyone will fight every hour to take control over Tol Barad prison, and the Tol Barad Peninsula, where the quests are found and where the opposing camps reside. These two are connected only by a bridge and both are non flyable (for the moment anyway).

If you want to win, you have to control Ironclad Garrison, Slagworks and Warden's Vigil. Very much like the Eye of the Storm battleground. There are also three destroyable towers and, like WG, you'll have to increase your rank to be able to use the area vehicles and destroy those towers. There are two vehicle workshops ...
Beside the quests, the winners will be able to access the Prison raid instance (told you is the new Wintergrasp!) called Baradin Hold. Hopefully we'll have a full review about that in the future when it will become functional.

As for the "look" of the area, it looks very much like Worgen starting zone: dark and somehow scary. Well, it's a prison! Don't think we should ever expect butterflies here. We took a few screenshots of the PvP area and you can see them below.

With this new battleground, will you miss WG when Cataclysm kicks in? Would you add anything to this battleground?

[Zaknafein]

The place need's to be tuned or to be tried better on beta i never get more then 10 people so i cant work on it..tbh i need airplanes in the game .

[skippy]

There are very few people playing on Beta lately. I have no idea why. I barely manage to enter one dungeon / day using the dungeon finder.

As for this new battleground I think it will be better than WG. I only hope it wont affect the realms like WG did, and I'm talking here about the lag issues.

[Neirin]

It seems to me that there are just as many people playing beta as normal, but that there are fewer people running dungeons and/or LFG still isn't working right. If it's the former, I suspect it's boredom. We've been running these same dungeons in and out non-stop for weeks/months, depending on how long people have been in the beta. I think people are just getting tired of running the same three over and over.

Of course, it could just be more LFG problems. the thing has been a little buggy and might not be forming groups properly. I really hate to suggest you guys put yourself through the pain and suffering... but have you tried trade chat? >_<

[Zaknafein]

There are very few people playing on Beta lately. I have no idea why. I barely manage to enter one dungeon / day using the dungeon finder.

As for this new battleground I think it will be better than WG. I only hope it wont affect the realms like WG did, and I'm talking here about the lag issues.

Guess what?! people log in beta to power lvl and do dungeons..i personally lvlign enchanting from ground 0 to see if there is a bug with it..boring i know i got myself without character copys cause i coppied my banks..

[Goht]

im not really the big pvp fan in wow, i even played not 10 wg at all since release of wotlk. but i like tol barad, done it so far only once but defending 3 bases, some real world pvp(in my opinion) feels nice for me. i like tol barad