Rating Battlegrouns already at Logon 3.3.5a

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Dear players! We are glad to announce launching Rating Battlegrounds system in test mode at Logon WoWCircle 3.3.5.
Rating battlegrounds are an alternative to Arena, where players can equally fight each other and get valuable rewards for it.
Instead of playing in 2v2 / 3v3 teams you can compete in common situation, for example Arathi Basin or Eye of the Storm.

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General reference:

- Rating battlegrounds can be of two types: 10v10 and 15v15, using the following maps: Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, Eye of the Storm, Strand of the Ancients.
- Team are formed according to RBG rating.
- If there are healers in a queue, they are spread equally.
- You can only queue RBG solo, group registration is not an option.
- Player with highest rating becomes a raid leader.
- You can not leave rating battleground till its end.
- You can check your rating/rank either in your control panel, or at Хоторо NPC in Duel Zone / Dalaran / Stormwind / Orgrimmar, and also by typing .menu(https://wowroad.info/?spell=38057) => Information (Информация).

Rewards for RGB:

- For winning RBG you get rating, after getting certain amount of points you get the title and achievement (more info below).
- For victory/defeat you will also get honor, like for ordinary battleground.
- Once in 7 days for x5/x100 and once in 3 days for FUN you will get arena points for playing 10 RBG games.
- Players, playing in heal spec get 20% more honor and 10% more rating for RBG.
- You can get bonuses/money for reaching the highest rating in a season.
*after test season, you might buy A8 items for RBG rating.

Restrictions/penalties at RBG:

- Spec switch is blocked for RBG.
- When a group is completely prepared, no players can be added to the current BG.
- Completely blocked on RBG: https://www.wowhead.com/?item=5634 / https://www.wowhead.com/?item=20008.
- For leaving RBG before its end you will lose rating and get deserter aura.
*in future we will implement reducing honor/arena points amount for amount of RBG player left from, and also RBG joining restrictions for N amount of days.

You can queue RBG in two ways:

1. Type .menu(https://wowroad.info/?spell=38057) => Join RBG (Вступить на Рейтинговое поле боя), or just type .rbg join
2. You can also queue RBG at Хоторо NPC in Duel Zone / Dalaran / Stormwind / Orgrimmar

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Basic information about the first test RBG season

Season will last from 02.04.20 till 02.07.20

For reaching the highest rating you will get the following rewards:

1 place:	20 000 bonuses
2 place:	15 000 bonuses
3 place:	10 000 bonuses
4 place:	8 000 bonuses
5-10 places:	5 000 bonuses
11-15 places:	3 000 bonuses
16-20 places:	2 000 bonuses

For reaching required rating you will get the following titles/achievements:

Rating	Alliance	Horde
2800	Warbringer + shirt	Warbringer + shirt
2400	Grand Marshal	High Warlord
2300	Field Marshal	Warlord
2200	Marshal	General
2100	Commander	Lieutenant General
2000	Lieutenant Commander	Champion
1900	Knight-Champion	Centurion
1800	Knight-Captain	Legionnaire
1700	Knight-Lieutenant	Blood guard
1600	Knight	Stone Guard
1500	Sergeant Major	First Sergeant
1400	Master Sergeatn	Senior Sergeant
1300	Sergeant	Sergeant
1200	Corporal	Grunt
1100	Private	Scout

Important information:

- If RBG collects active community, bonus rewards will be replaced with real, moreover you will be able to buy arena items for RBG rating.
- Titles for the highest (!!!) rating can be changed/completed from one season to another.
- Bonuses/real rewards when a season ends are given to one unique logon account, to which your character is binded.
- All actions that are not normal play, are forbidden on RBG (fro example: inactivity, using Bloodlust/Heroism before RBG starts etc.), this will be considered as rules breach and violators will be banned from 30 to 120 days.
- Players, who got banned for cheats/scripts at Arena/BG are not considered when preparing the top list.
- If you will leave RBG too often you will be banned soon enough.

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Reference information about second test RBG season, debugging continues.

Season lasts from 28.07.20 till 28.10.20

For reaching the highest rating you will get the following rewards:

1 place:	9 000 bonuses
2 place:	7 000 bonuses
3 place:	5 000 bonuses
4 place:	3 000 bonuses
5-10 place	2 000 bonuses
11-15 place	1 000 bonuses

For reaching required rating you will get the following titles/achievements:

Rating	Alliance	Horde
2800	Warbringer + unique shirt	Warbringer + unique shirt
2400	Grand Marshal	High Warlord
2300	Field Marshal	Warlord
2200	Marshal	General
2100	Commander	Lieutenant General
2000	Lieutenant Commander	Champion
1900	Knight-Champion	Centurion
1800	Knight-Captain	Legionnaire
1700	Knight-Lieutenant	Blood guard
1600	Knight	Stone Guard
1500	Sergeant Major	First Sergeant
1400	Master Sergeant	Senior Sergeant
1300	Master Sergeatn	Sergeant
1200	Corporal	Grunt
1100	Private	Scout

Important information:

- Every calendar month of a season a player must play 10 RBG matches or more to claim the reward.
- Skipping first 15 days per one season (from 04.08.20) is acceptable.
- Players, banned for cheats or arena/RBG/BG violations (scripts, rating fraud, using bugs) are not considered when preparing the top.
- All players, that try getting into top list with twinks will be disqualified (including main characters).
- Bonuses/real rewards (titles incl.) are given to one uniques logon account to which your character is binded.
- All actions, that are not a normal RBG play, are forbidden (for example: inactivity, using Bloodlust/Heroism before BG starts etc.). All of these cases will be taken to be cheating and such players will be banned for 30-120 days, always do your best to win.
- If you leave RBG too often you will be banned.


Some changes already actual/are planned for RBG:

- Completely reworked rating calculation system (applied).
- Added special daily/weekly quests available via .menu to stimulate RBG/arena (applied).
- We are changing enemy matchmaking system to make it more balanced, not only rating is considered (in progress).
- Strand of the Ancients proc decrease (in progress).
- Titles/achievements fro reaching rating are temporarily not given to players automatically (in progress).