I'm happy to see cross-realm battlegrounds coming to Octo. Though there is one detail that requires devs attention.
Obviously, trading between players from different realms shouldn't be possible - otherwise people would exploit and link distinct economies. However, trade restriction would prevent some functionalities that originally existed in Alterac Valley battleground. You see, Turtle WoW changed some items that are looted in AV not to be soulbound. They were tradeable.
For example, to summon Lokholar (big elemental) in AV, whole team needed to turn in 200x Blood. It was much easier to achieve this goal if there was one delivery man who took the Blood from every player close. In that case trade was convenient and promoted specific gameplay in that battleground.
Generally, this should concern all AV-related turn ins. But also trading oranges between players was very common thing.
So if you ever implement cross-realm battlegrounds, please allow us to trade these items:
- All conjured items
- Armor Scraps
- Stormpike Soldier's Blood
- Storm Crystal
- Stormpike Soldier's Flesh
- Stormpike Lieutenant's Flesh
- Stormpike Commander's Flesh
- Frostwolf Soldier's Medal
- Frostwolf Lieutenant's Medal
- Frostwolf Commander's Medal