Lot of talk about Wrath of the Lich King in forums and on WoW Insider, musings over what new content is going to be in the expansion.

I think it’s waaaay too early for that kind of thing.

But I want to leave speculation on upcoming content behind, and throw out there what I want to see happen, something that Blizzard already has proven they can implement in the existing game;

Aerial PvP.

Hear me out, now. Think about it.

You make an instanced arena. Put some floaty things in it that serve no purpose. I don’t know about you, but I think Nagrand has plenty of those to spare.

Now, of course you need your pre-requisites… your flight skill level determines which Aerial Arena you are qualified to enter.

Hey, let’s really have fun and let there be 2v2 and 3v3 teams.

Ah, but how to do battle? How to score wins?

In the current system, you have two choices. You can choose to disable spell casting while mounted, or you can choose to allow casting but it automatically dismounts you.

I agree with that, and I see no reason to change that. We need an option that only changes gameplay while actively in the Aerial Arena.

What Blizzard has done with Shartuuls’ Transporter Event and Teron Gorefiend, I Am is prove that they can temporarily give you a new caster/pet bar that adds abilities and spells to your character.

These are spells that you can use during a specific event, and when the event is over they are removed.

In this case, I could see the beginning of the Arena match starting with both teams on tall, slender pillars on opposing sides. The bottom of the Arena could be lava, green goop, whatever. The point is that when the match begins, each player activates their chosen mount. Once on their mount, a new caster/pet style bar pops up that would have your attack options.

The purpose of the match would be to unseat your opponent. The team that still has a player airborne wins the match.

I would LIKE to see the Horde and Alliance each have different attacks. Heaven would be each race having a special attack animation. Thrown dynamite for dwarves, woven nets for elves, thrown spears for trolls, whatever.

At it’s core I think there should be a long range slowing/hamstring style attack, and at melee range a dismounting blow.

I could see the caster bar having nothing fancier than a Net attack for long range hamstring, and a Lance attack for melee range dismounting.

I don’t think I’ll get any argument that those damn Monstrous Kaliri prove that Blizzard can make aerial based attacks that hamstring and dismount aerial riders.

So with already proven and existing methods, Blizzard has all the tools necessary to give us Aerial PvP.

The only thing that would have to be refined would be targeting an opponent in 3d space with a net attack… assuming they added a hamstring style move for PvP tactics… frankly, I would be delighted just to get a lance for melee ranged unseating and go head to head with another dragon rider!

God, my imagination is running wild… I can see people suddenly farming their Sha’tari Skyguard rep to get the epic mount with the smallest graphics footprint in the game to better scan the skies to see their prey… leatherworkers going into overdrive selling Riding Crops… heck, make the quest reward for defeating Captain Skyshatter a faster speed boost than the Riding Crop, or give it a dismount stun resist, and watch that quest get taken very seriously indeed!

C’mon, anyone else out there feel the same? We have these awesome dragons we love, and bombing them again in Blades Edge Plateau is fun, but I want to bring the war to the skies!

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