Warsong Gulch

• Capture the enemy’s flag
• Kill an enemy flag carrier
• Killing any enemy player
• For every flag your team captures, you get experience, regardless of whether you win or lose.

Arathi Basin

• Capturing a base
• Killing any enemy player
• Completing battleground quests
• Number of resources at the end of the game, regardless of win/loss

Alterac Valley

• Number of your faction’s resources left at the end of the battle
• Killing any enemy player
• Completing battleground quests
• Killing the enemy Captain
• Burn towers and bunkers
• Freeing your team’s Wing Commanders
• Capturing mines
• Collecting supplies to turn in for quests

So, if you like battling other players, include battlegrounds in your bag of leveling tricks!

• A completely changed Old World of Azeroth, devastated by floods, earthquakes, and volcanos
• A new profession called Archeology
• Two new races: Goblins for the Horde and Worgen for the Alliance
• New classes available to existing races, like Tauren Paladins and Dwarf Shamans.
• New raids and dungeons, including a Heroic version of Deadmines
• Guild leveling
• Stat changes, like the removal of defense, attack power, and spell power
• A completely revamped talent system

Now, of course, changes to the endgame and an increased level cap mean that you’ll want to get to level 80 as quickly as possible before the expansion comes out – probably in the fall of 2010. Even though there is no release date yet, you don’t want to be caught off guard. You need to get to 80 well ahead of time so that you can start accumulating the gear you’ll need to play the expansion.