I actually seem to have an internet connection today, so I logged on to WoW and immediately tried to hop into a battleground. I queued up for both Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch. There were many many BGs up and running, but the wait time was still at around 10 minutes. Maybe that was because I was playing on Alliance side. I haven’t tried Horde yet (since I just hit 40 with the alt I most like to BG with, I figured I should gain a few levels first).
To my surprise, Arathi Basin popped up first. I hit the button to go to the battleground and was brought to a loading screen. But then the progress bar made no progress. I was just sitting there staring at a static screen for about a minute. Then in the midst of it I heard the sound effect that plays when you can enter a battleground. Soon after that I got dropped out of the loading screen back into the game with just a text message in the chat box saying something like “Battleground instance could not be found.” But it seemed my Warsong Gulch has popped up and one of my addons auto-joined me for that while I was reading the message.
Played there for a bit, all was fine. Well. Except for the fact that I entered into a battle midstream and my side was getting creamed. But otherwise it was all normal. 
I was playing my priest, which can be hard without good teammates. Priests just go squish. So we quickly lost, I ended up in Stormwind which is not where I had queued myself. I queued in Darnassus. Strange, but I wanted to be in SW anyway, so ok. I immediately queued again. But take a look at this:
I was in Stormwind and the game seemed to think I was in AB. Of course, I never even managed to get into that BG at all.
A few minutes later I got into another WSG. This one was going much better. We captured a flag or two and I was doing some decent heals. It was good stuff. But then either I got booted from the battle or it went down or who knows what, because I ended up back in SW. With the deserter debuff. And it said I was still in WSG!
Definitely something strange going on here. I gave up at this point. I’ll give it a bit of time to get the kinks out. I love that you don’t have to spend the first few minutes yelling “Invite” when you enter the BG. That’s awesome. And they’ve appended the server name to everyone’s character names so you can see where everyone comes from. Very nifty. I think this will end up being a cool feature, it’s just a bit unstable for now.
2 Responses to “Buggy Cross-Server Battlegrounds”
Hilarious! The same thing happened to me - I found out that it clears if you log out and back in (the “I think you’re in a battleground” logo). Fortunately I didn’t get the deserter-cat when I switched into one, but I’ve also decided to give it a little break.
It’s sorta weird that now it’s /bg to chat with the team instead of /raid. It takes new people several minutes to find it after seeing the chat, and resulted in some complete miscommunication. And I have to say… those folks who are on PvP servers? Ouch. They can do that weird melee strafe-dance-thing 100x better than I can. I just have to hope I get in a stun/hamstring or I’m guaranteed to get used by a L41 warrior with a toothpick. It’s a bit embarrasing, frankly.
Figured it wasn’t just me. But who knows? I tried using /raid and didn’t manage to say anything. But that was in the first battle which ended so quickly I didn’t have time to ask anyone what it should have been!
I’m soo bad at the melee strafe dance that it’s the primary reason I prefer casters. I hate dancing in a circle! I just wanna stand there and swing and have the bigger sword win.