AV (bg) xp ! woot ! 500k xp/hour !

[Fat Tire]

I did AB with my Rets in the 40s and got no RAF exp bonus.

[heyaz2]

This is working pretty well so far - horde usually doesn't ever win on reckoning but we're winning about 60-70%. Even a loss gets half a bar, win gets 1.5 bars or so. The good thing is queue's are instant.

This is amazing so far though, especially since you could do this with a whole group of toons.

In 90 minutes on my 71 priest, I got 7 bars and 9000 honor... I'm estimating 5-6 hours per level + 30000-40000 honor.... That's about on par with questing a single toon, or about twice as fast than leveling a group... plus all that honor.. man I'll have a full set of pvp gear by 80.

Time to dust off a few other 70s and bring them in

[Zaelar]

The exp isn't affected by rested. It pushes it back like when you turn quests in.

[heyaz2]

I love these instant queues for horde, especially when we don't suck.

For those that want to take advantage of this, I recommend boxing your 80 main's while you do it. I've been able to really contribute to wins by using my 4 ele shaman to wipe at Galv (usually me that wipes but it slows them down), then defend frostwolf, then re-cap towers until it's time to push. have been winning a lot of games, not to mention I'm getting honor on my mains while leveling new toons. Looks like it's going to be 5-6 hours per level with about 30k honor gained across 6 toons... not bad at all

[Niley]

Ive been doing this for past level, I wouldn't say that im leeching of anything, Im doing my job.

[Drew]

I ran my first BGs today after reading the posts in this thread. Been playing for almost a year and it was the first time I stepped into a BG....

Loved it!

It was awesomely chaotic and everybody charging out was the gate opened was a blast. I got the last 7 bubbles to get my druid to 75 in what felt like no time at all. I'm sure I'll do at least one or two more levels in AV before heading back up to Northrend.

[lans83]

I ran my first BGs today after reading the posts in this thread. Been playing for almost a year and it was the first time I stepped into a BG....

Loved it!

It was awesomely chaotic and everybody charging out was the gate opened was a blast. I got the last 7 bubbles to get my druid to 75 in what felt like no time at all. I'm sure I'll do at least one or two more levels in AV before heading back up to Northrend.

It can be pretty addicting I waited till I hit 70 on my hunter a few months after BC came out and spent quite a while running all the battlegrounds I could to get my season 1 Gladiator set. Sadly, I never got it all. But I just can't wait to do the grind all over again for the new sets out. I asked in Trade channel, but never got a straight answer, does anyone know if you can purchase the pvp gear if you have the honor points and tokens required, but are not yet that level to wear them? If so, my ass is gonna grind in AV for the lvl 60, 70, and 80 sets so they'll be ready for when I hit those levels.

[mikekim]

It can be pretty addicting I waited till I hit 70 on my hunter a few months after BC came out and spent quite a while running all the battlegrounds I could to get my season 1 Gladiator set. Sadly, I never got it all. But I just can't wait to do the grind all over again for the new sets out. I asked in Trade channel, but never got a straight answer, does anyone know if you can purchase the pvp gear if you have the honor points and tokens required, but are not yet that level to wear them? If so, my ass is gonna grind in AV for the lvl 60, 70, and 80 sets so they'll be ready for when I hit those levels.

yes, you can by stuff in preperation for when you can wear it

[Drew]

I did most of a level (went from 4 bubbles into 75 to half a bubble into 76) today. After each BG I wrote down what my XP was, my played time and whether or not w won or lost.

Total BGs - 16
Wins - 8
Losses - 8
Average BG length - 13 minutes
Loss XP - 20k - 40k
Win XP - 120k - 140k

Total time spent in BGs today - 3 hours, 20 minutes
Total XP gained - 1,350,000
XP per hour - 409,090

It's tempting to keep at this, but I need gold more than I need honor. I'll be questing from 76 to 77, but after that I may finish up to 80 in AV. That is, if the queues are as quick during the week as they were today.

[Drew]

Sorry to bump a topic I was the last replier to, but this is a new point so it made sense to add instead of just editing.

What do you guys suggest spending honor points on for somebody who is more into PvE than PvP? I've got close to 70k honor and have never had to spend it before. I've been looking at the rings, mostly because I just put on a set of Eviscerator's Battlegear and don't want to start swapping pieces of that out just yet. I'm planning on doing the Argent Tournament stuff to get the 2 Feral Furies pieces (yes, 80 feral druid here). I guess that really only leaves the rings, unless there are compelling reasons to replace any of my other gear right now.

Also, I've got a lot of Northrend left to do, as I've just done (as in got the achievement done) Tundra, Fjord and Dragonblight. I plan on doing Oracle rep as well, for a shot at the drake. My focus will be mostly on PvE content, but I will be hitting up AB and WSG to get 30 of those marks for the Black War Raptor. (I've got the Frostwolf Howler, but still have 85 AV marks left over.)

Thanks in advance for any tips/advice you guys can throw my way.