[wow] Warlords of Draenor - Page 8

Battlegrounds did not launch with the game, and came out almost a year or more into release, also back then it was server locked, so horde from server only fought alliance from their server. This is when the old-school PvP heros were born, like Constantine, was a lock who was infamous for his BG premades that pretty much flawless'd every single bg they went into.

Battlegrounds are what killed World PvP. Originally if you wanted to get GM or High Warlord, it meant going out into the world and hunting people down, and basically causing all out guild v guild wars.

TM/SS was a very common and understood World PvP spot for the first year or so of the game, there was always a war going on TM/SS because it was one of the first zones where Horde and Alliance were leveling close to eachother, and they each had a town within a reasonable distance to the fight, creating giant back and forth swings of momentum.

World Bosses was another reason to PvP, but those have been pretty much removed since TBC (idk about MoP)

But saying that there was no World PvP besides ganking/camping nonsense is just plain incorrect, I had a couple friends who I played with from launch, for the first year or 2 who got GM or HW, simply by going out and either going to TM/SS battles, or going to camp the Black Rock Mountain, and kill groups as they tried to get to the instances, cause back then you had to actually group up in a major city, then travel there, there werent meeting stones or insta-teleporting to instance simply by queuing from a major city.