Thor ' s guide to win a Battleground Introduction . IF you come here and find the page unifinished . i m probably still working on this but for the next few days i m gonna create a pvp guide for those who are new to pvp . So let ' s get started . a battleground is an instance where you have to complete a certain task in before the other faction does . Depending on the battleground you will be in a 10 , 15 , or 40 man group . One of the most important parts of pvp is understanding that tough you might be good geared and doing everything right , there are still 9 to 39 other players that can fail So if you ' re following this guide perfectly this does not make you win every battleground . But whatever happens , stay calm and don ' t go nerdraging . You will notice whenever someone starts a nerdrage your team members will get frustrated and preform les . This will lead to a loss most of the time . How to start ? I am not going to tell you how to play your class . so the first thing you need to do for your self is how you can play your class with confort . You want to pick a class that fits you . It ' s not because they say hunters own in pvp that you will own with a hunter . sometimes the class just doesn ' t fit you . Once you have your class solved you want to have as many spells bind to keys as possible . you might get away with mouse clicks in raids and dungeons but in a battleground that will get you killed , although i have to admit that casters can get away with it somethimes while mellee players can ' t affort it since they re gonna use their mouse mostly for steering their character in unpredictable paterns around their target . The next thing you want is to have the correct addons installed . not every addon is a must but some of them give you just that bit of information over your enemy to get the winning hand . other addons make it easyer for you to do certain combo ' s or cast your spell or cc on the correct target . some just make it easyer to see what debufs you have and what debufs your targets have . of course you can play pvp without addons and certain players have a relatively slow pc . I can ' t make you buy a new pc but if yours is running slow and gets stuck a lot i suggest to get a new one for those lag moments are gonna be the moment you die . Keybinds . Like i said before , Keybinds are one of the most important things to be good in pvp . Wat you want to do is to bind as many spells as possible to a key . also you want to bind your trinket and other items that have a " use " on them to a key . This way you will be able to react as fast as possible and counteract on whatever your opponent does . the best way to bind your keys is to put them to the keys close to your left hand . possibly around " wasd " ( or " zqsd " for azerty users ) this way you can reach every key without moving your hand and your right hand can use the mouse for steering . bartender is a good addon to do this Gear . Gear is another Important thing in pvp . since blizzard decided you need other stats for pvp you want to get pvp gear . how do you get pvp gear ? well you buy it with honnor , how do you get honnor ? you win in pvp . I see what ' s going wrong here but you will just have to coope with it . the best thing you can do is buy or craft some of the craftable pvp gear to get started . some pvp blues may be more valuable than a pvp epic . in any case you will just have to find out what works best for you . i can imagine you don ' t want to replace a 398 gearpiece cause you will drop a lot of stats , but in that case you can considder putting resilience gems on it . if you have a lot of justice points or valor points you can go to one of the jp / vp vendors and change them for honnor points / conquest points these will get you a good pvp set to start with . since 4 . 3 they also made it easyer to earn conquest points without doing arena or RBG Use of CC . CC is everything . the most common statement is " a cc ' d player equals a dead player " when you see an enemy being cc ' d , whatever you do . don ' t ' breack it . if you have double cc abbilities make sure your target didn ' t use a trinket that breaks it and if he does . cc him again . there is nothing else to tell about this . I presume you know your class better than i do . Addons . How silly this can be , having the correct set of addons can give you a huge advantage over the other team . However , if it comes to the point that your addons cause you to have lag spikes or other problems that can influence your reaction speed . turn them off . " It ' s better to not know who the enemy healers are and kill some of them than know who they are but not being able to attack them . " what kind of addons you use mostly depends on your class . dk ' s might use a disease tracker and warlocks are probably tracking their dots as well . but there are some addons out there that really give you the intel you need about the other team and those are useful for anyone . for example . battleground targets - this one gives you an extra window with therein the player of the opposing faction together with spec and health bar . this way you know if they have healers , tanks , rogues , before the battle even started . knowing what you re up against can influence your tactic . focusheals - reports the enemy healers in chat . verry useful to have a quick report in your group and let everyone know who the healers are . ( healers need to be killed asap ) bg defender - a verry useful incoming reporting tool . this adds a small window with a few buttons so you ca report the incomings in a certain base just by clicking a button . it auto tracks your location . the only thing you need to do is click on the number of incoming enemy ' s and it reports it in your battleground chat . I have an addon pack made that i use for pvp here but remember , if any of these addons make you go slow , just turn it off . I hope this was useful information and you can get started on doing some good pvp . I just gave you the basics , there are some pretty good Class guides out there for pvp if you need more class spesific info on how to use your skills but since i only play DK pvp i can ' t get deeper into the spesific classes . If you want to leave any coments about anything you can leave them on the curse page with the addon pack . Thanks for reading this .