PvP Brawl

PvP Brawls are a Player vs. Player mode that is available every other week and offers a variety of modes, rules, and scenic changes to the usual battleground gameplay. Most, but not all, Brawls consist of tweaks to existing battlegrounds or arenas. When a Brawl is available, it can be queued for through the Player vs. Player interface. Entering a Brawl will prompt Something Different, which can be completed once per event.

The goal of Brawls is to add variation to the battleground experience, and also allows Blizzard to experiment with new ideas for rulesets, match types, and game types. The most successful Brawls could potentially become permanent fixtures in the PvP landscape in the future.

The following Brawls were mentioned in official announcements but were never made available in-game.

• Eye of the Horn — A tweaked version of Eye of the Storm where all players would be permanently mounted on rams and could send enemies flying with headbutts, similar to the Bareback Brawl world quest in Stormheim. Mentioned during the initial announcement of PvP Brawls at BlizzCon 2016 but never made it to the live game.
• Teeming Islands — A tweaked version of PvP Island Expeditions in which the total amount of players would be increased from 6 to 20 on the biggest islands (Havenswood and Jorundall). Announced as a new addition in patch 8.3.0, this Brawl was scheduled to become available for the first time in early 2020. However, in a hotfix on February 14, it was replaced in the schedule by Temple of Hotmogu and it has not been mentioned since.

• PvP Brawls are inspired by similar game modes in other Blizzard games: HS Tavern Brawls in Hearthstone, s in Overwatch (later replaced by the ), and s in Heroes of the Storm.

• Arena
• Battleground