My previous post didnt really capture how i felt about BWB and pvping with new players.

I finally got my friend into the game and i took him to pvp and rolled a character to play through the game with him.

While BWB has some serious potato, it is also the most fun ive had in PvP in quite some time. Its mostly lag free and the epic sieges are truly epic.

I had to commandeer a group of pugs at some point because i couldnt tolerate the potato anymore. Taught them a lot about how to proper siege a keep, such as not telling the other faction you're about to hit a keep by first taking a resource (responsible for 90% of siege take failures on BWB). It seems to have helped quite a bit as they started taking keeps much easier with fewer wipes.

When its all said and done im gonna be sad when my new character hits lvl 50 cause i wont be able to have those epic sieges.
Ill always remember the 45 minute battle at chal i had the other day where we lost the entire north wall and part of the east and still managed to defend it. (thanks AD for pushing to glade and rayles)

The thing that is mind-boggling about Blackwater is that it is possible to spend hours siegeing and skirmishing outside of a keep, with the front raging across 2-3 walls with holes being punched through and all three alliances in a mighty ZergvZergvZerg on pop-locked primetime...and experience no lag of any kind.

Really, the pre-vet campaign actually looks like the advertisements for the game.

The question is...how
Is it because the common blob spam skills are not unlocked by most players yet?
Is it because people don't cram into AoE radius and actually spread out across the battlefield while fighting?
Is it because Meteor might not even be unlockable by a pre-vet character?

Whatever it is, the performance disparity between Blackwater and the vet campaigns is astounding.