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

[Sembiance]

WowWiki has info about how much experience you currently gain in AV:

http://www.wowwiki.com/Alterac_Valley#Experience_in_AV

COPIED:
All battlegrounds award experience when the team completes objectives. Experience gains are percentages based on the total experience needed to level for a player.

• Destroying a tower or bunker awards roughly 1.16% of a level.
• Defeating Galvangar or Balinda awards roughly 1.16% of a level.
• Winning the match awards roughly 1.55% of a level.
• Players are awarded an extra 0.38% for every remaining tower or bunker their team still has when the match is over, regardless of win or loss.

It is thus possible to gain 7.3% of a level from one match just by winning, and up to 8.8% for a win with all towers still up. It will take 14 wins to complete a level, or 18 losses, assuming your team destroys the four towers, and loses your four towers and kills Galvangar or Balinda.

[Multibocks]

I am trying it now with my paladins and it feels waaaay slow

[Fizzler]

What ever you spend your points on keep in mind that you max out honor at 75k..... I think

You will have to spend some of it soon. I believe it was 75k I have hit the limit a few times but can't remember for sure what it was.

[Fat Tire]

WowWiki has info about how much experience you currently gain in AV:

http://www.wowwiki.com/Alterac_Valley#Experience_in_AV

COPIED:
All battlegrounds award experience when the team completes objectives. Experience gains are percentages based on the total experience needed to level for a player.

• Destroying a tower or bunker awards roughly 1.16% of a level.
• Defeating Galvangar or Balinda awards roughly 1.16% of a level.
• Winning the match awards roughly 1.55% of a level.
• Players are awarded an extra 0.38% for every remaining tower or bunker their team still has when the match is over, regardless of win or loss.

It is thus possible to gain 7.3% of a level from one match just by winning, and up to 8.8% for a win with all towers still up. It will take 14 wins to complete a level, or 18 losses, assuming your team destroys the four towers, and loses your four towers and kills Galvangar or Balinda.

So at @15-20min per game in my BG. Your looking at 4+ hours per lvl. Not that bad considering you get honor at the same time. You just miss out on gold from questing, but at 80 gold isnt a problem. I have done 74-77 on my locks and its been fun. I mix it up after a few games of AV and do IOC otherwise AV burnout.

[shaeman]

I've been standing around in the queue waiting for AV to pop.

From today onwards I'm moving to a fresh questing area and will knock out as many quests as possible while waiting for my being able to join AV.

I'll prefer the variety that way - not getting burnt out on one or the other.

[Fat Tire]

I've been standing around in the queue waiting for AV to pop.

From today onwards I'm moving to a fresh questing area and will knock out as many quests as possible while waiting for my being able to join AV.

I'll prefer the variety that way - not getting burnt out on one or the other.

How long is your avg wait? Mine is almost instant.

[Owltoid]

Wow, I love the new AV!!!

Since my Owls have pretty shitty gear, it's a bit disheartening to go into some BGs where one rogue can wipe the whole group. I found out that if I go into AV, my 5 crappy geared 80s can turn the battle since they're facing over 50% toons below 80! It's now my BG of choice, by far.

Last night I saw another alliance multiboxing druid group (level 74 I believe)... they didn't say hi back. If you're on this forum and reading this post then say something!

[king.pa]

I was the king of AV @ lvl 70 with my 4 Ret pallys
I'm now lvl 73, and I've got to 'hide' sometimes because of a single killing AOE...
but gaining so much XP is still interesting

[Ualaa]

My Warlock and Hunter are both 70. So I want them to be 71st, then I can enter with the Druid, Priest and Shaman. Ideally, I want to level all five at once.

The queue for the first AV was 8 minutes.
It was a losing AV, which we lost about 30 seconds after I joined.
The toons received 6k exp's each.

The second AV, the queue was about 30 seconds.
I guess I got into the next one, which many from the previous queued for.
This one also lost, the horde defended Galv and we took zero towers.
The game was 25 minutes, and each toon received 8k experience.

Obviously being there as objectives are taken/destroyed is the key.







I have a couple of questions.

1.
My toons on this team are interested in several pieces of PvP gear. Chances are, they won't be geared at all, aside from PvP stuff. For example, Hateful Gladiator's Wyrmhide Helm costs 49,600 honor and requires level 80. Can I purchase this at level 72 (or whenever I have the honor, even though I cannot use it until 80th, or will I have to be 80th to buy this?). (My primary motivation will be running Dailies, since they each already have epic flyers).

2.
The quest to turn in an AV, AB, WSG, Eye, Strand mark for honor, rewards 319 honor at 70th. It is close to 1200 honor at 80th. Am I better off playing each BG, to have 100x of each mark at 80th, or just AV all the way for faster exp per time invested?

Any opinions appreciated.
And really interested in #1.

[Decadence]

My Warlock and Hunter are both 70. So I want them to be 71st, then I can enter with the Druid, Priest and Shaman. Ideally, I want to level all five at once.

The queue for the first AV was 8 minutes.
It was a losing AV, which we lost about 30 seconds after I joined.
The toons received 6k exp's each.

The second AV, the queue was about 30 seconds.
I guess I got into the next one, which many from the previous queued for.
This one also lost, the horde defended Galv and we took zero towers.
The game was 25 minutes, and each toon received 8k experience.

Obviously being there as objectives are taken/destroyed is the key.







I have a couple of questions.

1.
My toons on this team are interested in several pieces of PvP gear. Chances are, they won't be geared at all, aside from PvP stuff. For example, Hateful Gladiator's Wyrmhide Helm costs 49,600 honor and requires level 80. Can I purchase this at level 72 (or whenever I have the honor, even though I cannot use it until 80th, or will I have to be 80th to buy this?). (My primary motivation will be running Dailies, since they each already have epic flyers).

2.
The quest to turn in an AV, AB, WSG, Eye, Strand mark for honor, rewards 319 honor at 70th. It is close to 1200 honor at 80th. Am I better off playing each BG, to have 100x of each mark at 80th, or just AV all the way for faster exp per time invested?

Any opinions appreciated.
And really interested in #1.

I'm getting at least 30 extra marks of each for a war mount or two, but I've been doing just AV since the level difference is the least noticeable in AV.