I like to play on Smolderforge , when I have time to waste or when I am bored. Some days I really enjoy playing PVP in battlegrounds or kill something in a dungeon with other players.
But sometimes it feels something is missing. I spend most of my time in Tanaris, gearing or waiting for battlegrounds. I usually never go out in the wow world, which is a little ironic because it is of course you know, huge, there is no world PVP.
I remember in the old days when I was playing on a private server, which called themselves Dominion wow. This server, like many others, was a fun server. You could buy whatever you wanted, T6, T5 old pre TBC gear, even Warglaives. Also this server had something I really thought was fun, they had world PVP.
The most favorite place of playing world PVP was "Gurubashi Arena". People played there every day, and I remember, it was the reason I stayed on that server, because it was so much fun.
Sometimes the arena area was dominated by the Hordes, sometimes Alliance and sometimes it was contested. But inside the Arena, everyone was enemies.
It happens sometimes players teamed up, to take out the group, who was currently the king of the Gurubashi floor.
I will try explaining as much as I can with pictures, how their Gurubashi arena looked like.
First of, this was a pure PVP server, so Stranglethorn Vale was a contested area.
Hordes and alliance came to the Gurubashi with custom teleport NPC, like we have here on Smolderforge.
Alliance spawn was at the south gate:
Hordes spawn was at the North gate:
This is a perfect spawn location for the two factions:
Now you may think the contested area would be the arena ground itself, but it wasn't. It was actually more fun, when they increased the contested area radius, from the arena grounds being the center, to the arena stairs:
Outside the red line is the safe ground. Here you are green and safe and can recover from your enemies:
This is what they had on their server and I loved it, very fun indeed.
Of course we do not have to do exactly like this. You could make some events too. Perhaps spawn a chest with valuables? People could team up and fight for it, with honor!
Or perhaps the idea of making STV faction contested is not a wise idea. I agree sometimes It could become boring when the faction sides were uneven, resulting in a too dominant faction controlling the area and having fun killing each other within the player contested arena.
I just wanted to share this, because I really miss the times in the arena.
Hope you like my suggestion to make the server more fun.
I would be happy to hear what you think about this idea.
I guess a suggestion of Gurubashi arena has already been discussed and declined, because people would team up, and no one would dare to enter it. But with increasing the radius, it makes other players dare to get closer. It actually worked quite well.
Thank you!
