Resources on old (pre-1.12) AV

[Akcope-thunderhorn (Akcope)]

From playing in vanilla, I very vaguely remember Alterac Valley having special features that got removed sometime mid-vanilla, being revamped even before 1.12.

For the sake of nostalgia, I would like to find some resources (a website, images, videos, whatever) that have a more detailed description of these features. What I can definitely remember:

• There used to be a special item, a “green eye”. Only one player could hold this eye at a time, and they would receive a damage buff while having it (at least I think - a 100% damage buff). In turn, the opposing team could see the location of the player with the eye at all times.
• There used to be a quest that would summon a controllable shredder. It required some items from within the battleground, 40 iron bars and some cloth I think. It used to last for 6 mins, had about 50k health and would deal some pretty sick damage.
• There used to be a rank-up system of some kind in AV. This might have been tied to the trinkets but probably not. I remember that players of a higher rank would be given privileges to take certain bg-wide actions, such as sending cavalry assaults.

[Terran-norgannon]

@Akcope-thunderhorn

There used to be a special item, a “green eye”. Only one player could hold this eye at a time, and they would receive a damage buff while having it (at least I think - a 100% damage buff). In turn,

Master Ryson’s All Seeing Eye(copied from wowhead):
Upon completing this quest, the player was given a buff which allowed them to see all players as dots on their map, including enemy players and rogues who are in stealth. This was extremely useful for clearing towers because they were primarily defended by stealthed rogues and druids. In fact, you could use this to prevent the rogues and druids from even getting to the towers, because slowly moving single dots that are far away from the rest of the crowd were very noticeable on your map.

@Akcope-thunderhorn

There used to be a quest that would summon a controllable shredder. It required some items from within the battleground, 40 iron bars and some cloth I think. It used to last for 6 mins, had about 50k health and would deal some pretty sick damage.

Zinfizzlex's Portable Shredder Unit

@Akcope-thunderhorn

There used to be a rank-up system of some kind in AV. This might have been tied to the trinkets but probably not. I remember that players of a higher rank would be given privileges to take certain bg-wide actions, such as sending cavalry assaults.

That was not a rank it was just reputation for Frostwolfclan or Stompike-Guards. The trinkets(Frostwolf Insignia /Stormpike Insignia) were available on friendly and got upgrades on honored, exalted.
every player could turn in armor scrabs or flesh for air assaults. but only players higher than “friendley” could start them (this exists until today)

on patch 1.8 a lot of things got removed:

• Rysons allseeing eye
• wildpaw ridge and winterax-hold
• the minefields in the field of strife
• Korrak the Bloodrager was moved to protect Snowfall
• NPCs that patroled in horde/alliance territory
• Shredder-quest
• air support had knockback

[Terran-norgannon]

the old alterac-map from patch 1.5-1.8(including wildpaw ridge and winterax-hold):

wolfriders and Shredder unit in classic:

the minefields:

classic alterac match on the original map:

[Akcope-thunderhorn (Akcope)]

Very insightful, thank you for this.

[Gankrel-tarren-mill (Gankrel)]

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