There has been a recent push to improve the overall Battlegrounds experience and the GMs have been doing a great job. There are unique BG additions that improve the overall experience without sacrificing the vanilla game play. BG is restricted to vanilla gears (no mvp cards or crazy gears) There are also 3 types of WoE, Unrestricted, restricted, restricted non-trans. All three of which offer GvG experiences that are rare to find in RO these days. Overall, my 5 years on TalonRO have been great!