LoS in bg'sFollow

I sincerely doubt it. I’ll be a little surprised if they fix issues such as the Alliance-side AB early escape exploit or the wall-climbing exploits in WSG.

I think it more likely that the ranked BGs will be the ones without these issues: Eye of the Storm I would bet on, probably the new-in-Cataclysm battlegrounds, and possibly Strand of the Ancients and Isle of Conquest, though the vehicles make those problematic.

I hope not. EoTS is just stupid as hell with knockback effects, veichle combat makes me want to kill myself and the battle for gilneas doesn't look like a very good map. WSG, AB and Twin Peaks are the only ones I'd want rated, but it's pretty clear Blizzard and I have wildly different criteria for this **** or Dalaran and Ogrimmar arenas would have been removed from the game a long time ago.

I like EotS and it could end being pretty good as rated. IoC and SotA should be nuked and we should be brainwashed to forget they ever happened.

Isle of conquest is not required for battlemaster, you only get a tabard for completing the meta.

Is there any defense against the knockbacks in EoS?

I'm so f-n sick of some gd boomkin or shammy rolling into a flag fight and blowing everyone off the edge.

There are a few options. Warlocks have the best of them, a ‘port to their demonic circle. Warriors can charge/intercept/intervene. Ferals can feral charge. Subtlety rogues can shadowstep. Mages have a small chance to save themselves with a blink, if they’re sailing over solid land.

But for any of these to work, you have to have enough situational awareness to see the elesham/boomkin/firemage moving in with that particular gleam in their eye, because you can’t be in the middle of a global cooldown when you get hit, or you could be out of range before you can save yourself. You also need low latency and darn good reflexes.

As a ranged class, against amateurs, you can often keep them from flanking you--make sure the straight line that connects you and them points to a solid landing, or that you have the flagpole at your back. This is largely impossible if you are melee, however. All the knockback powers are instants, so no interrupts, and you’d have to be psychic to throw up an immunity or self-root.

Also, a real pro will ***** you no matter what. I’ve a BG buddy who hexes people before launching them with a thunderstorm, if he thinks they’re likely to know a counter. Honestly, the best defense is probably preemptive knockback, if you’ve got it. I’ve seen some hilarious flag battles where both sides get launched into space, half a dozen or more people flying and the flag untouched.

Cataclysm promises to add some knockbacks (notably to warriors and a hunter pet) and remove others (fire mage). It also promises to add at least one new countermeasure, Leap of Faith.

You can also shadowstep. I do that all the time in EotS and BEA.

So your pro shammy friend casts hex 1.5 sec cast which risks him getting locked out of nature spells thus preventing him to cast the Tstorm. Not to mention you still can run around freely while hexed so you can still position yourself to avoid the knockoff.

Best defense is(as said above) situational awareness and not standing close to edge. But we all will get caught at times,(stealthed moonkin anyone?) just laugh it off and go gank him back after rez. ;)

Edit: grammer

Edited, Oct 12th 2010 12:55pm by Zornov

Death Knights get a spell in the Frost tree now that grants immunity to knockback effects, which is useful. Because you can practically smell when someone is planning to knock you off the edge.