Add castles (Long-term WPVP suggestion)

[Duraluminium]

Back in the days when WoW was not even released, we were playing multiple old-style MMOs. The gameplay consisted of grind for like 90%, they were clunky, graphics was very bad even compared to WoW 1.12 with no mods, but some of the greatest conceptions from those games were absent in WoW, and I always wanted to see them in this game.

The concept I want to suggest for the long-term WPVP development (post beta) is 'Castles'.
Several castles have to be created in the neutral locations. Like Gilneas Castle, Desolace Castle, Ashenvale Castle, etc.
The territory in the close proximity around these castles should be considered as a free PVP zone similar to the one on the Gurubashi arena, but with a slight difference. Everyone is an enemy, except those who are in your guild.
A castle can be controlled by a guild and it provides weekly:
- Some materials for consumables (each castle can provide some fitting to the location materials, like herbs for Ashenvale and ores for Burning Steppes)
- Gold to the guildbank
- Some unique weekly quests
The castle can be conquered by another guild during a scheduled time window of 2 hours a week. Maybe 2 hours at Sunday night? To conquer the castle, an AB-like flag should be tapped, but the time for tapping should be longer (30 sec maybe). The guild that controls the flag in the end of 2 hours time period owns the castle for the upcoming week until the next 'war'.
There should be like 4-5 castles in Azeroth, so controlling one of them should be considered a great honor, and every major guild would want to do it both for the benefits and for the name of the guild.
A guild can control only one castle at a time.
There should be NPC guards in the castles friendly to the owner guild.


I realize that it's a lot of work and it cannot be done in beta, but if at some point the PVP server will have such mechanics, it will attract PVP players from all classic WOW PVP communities

[Berdal]

I really like the idea.

Although quite different, the main aspect of guild contested event/zone is immaculate! (somewhat similar to: https://octowow.st/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1180#p1180)

Side-note: has to be carefully implemented to fit into the story of WoW Classic and the feel/ambience of Azeroth.