Aerial Combat Battleground

#0 - April 3, 2009, 11:49 p.m.
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Why give us so many fancy fly mounts if we can't actually do something fun with it? There are so many quests which we can use fly mount for battle, so why not design a BG featuring aerial combat? I am sure it will be much more fun than the 10min WG zerging feast.

We can make it like a bombing mission. Players can choose to fly as bombers or escorts. And the objective is to escort the bomber safetly to the enemy camp and back. Both the successful hit on the ground targets and the the safetly return of the bomber give victory points. Whichever side won the most points wins. While the bombers (imagin those icecrown bombing quests) are provided by NPCs. The escorts are players' own fly mount, which each type will have different abilities and stats. For example, the bronze dragon fly mount might have those AoE time stop like their counter parts in OCC, whereas da choppers might pwn with guided missles. The rewards... meh I have no idea, probably even more bizzard fly mounts, or the decorative items to pimp your mounts.

Anyway, feel free to tip in ideas if you like this concept.
#6 - April 4, 2009, 2:26 a.m.
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Aerial combat is definitely something we'd like to explore further. Tom Chilton recently discussed this in a bit of detail -- mostly in regard to the aerial combat in Lake Wintergrasp during Wrath's beta -- in our most recent episode of BlizzCast. You can find the audio and transcript here:

http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcast/archive/episode8.xml

Please don't let me throw you folks off track from conjuring up ideas about how aerial combat could be fused into a battleground scenario.
#12 - April 4, 2009, 3:04 a.m.
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Zyram.. you are not my favorite blue.

Keep ideas coming in guys, for World of Acecombat Craft!

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At least you're not talking about me I guess. :p