3.2.2 Makes an 80 Only AV

[Trick]

This is really going to hurt us boxers who have a higher-level leader toon also.

My DK is 80, so I'm happy that I got to drag my 4 Ret Pallys through AV starting at 71. They hit 80 a couple weeks ago, so they are fine.

But then I have my Mage team. 80 leader and four 63 mages to boost. This change now kills getting the band together in AV at 71. And there's also my Priest team starting up soon; 70 leader and four 60s.

Even worse, I've read that when they capped the AV at 79 they left the mobs at their current level. So both sides are just getting clobbered by the bosses.

[Souca]

They segregated it? Wow... good way to kill off attendance.

Yup, my queue was three times as long, and the match lasted about as long as a turtle. I got 500 honor. Estimated at 9 hours to level to 77. Of course there were still cave AFKers.

This is really going to hurt us boxers who have a higher-level leader toon also.

My DK is 80, so I'm happy that I got to drag my 4 Ret Pallys through AV starting at 71. They hit 80 a couple weeks ago, so they are fine.

But then I have my Mage team. 80 leader and four 63 mages to boost. This change now kills getting the band together in AV at 71. And there's also my Priest team starting up soon; 70 leader and four 60s.

Even worse, I've read that when they capped the AV at 79 they left the mobs at their current level. So both sides are just getting clobbered by the bosses.

Same for me, I can't bring my 80 shammy to run with my 76s.

I give it a week before AV is dead in this bracket like everyother BG. The bosses are still the same as 80 bosses, but our tanks can't get level 80 gear. Without the XP, only AFKers will queue and waiting 15 minutes for a match that gets me < 100k xp per hour isn't going to be appealing for many people. Also, only being able to queue for two BGs means lots of downtime. I expect that this will lower 80s bracket attendance as well since there will be less honor from lowbie kills and people only need so much honor to get gear.

Shame too, as I was really having fun with AV. It was making the grind of leveling bearable to the point where I was going to level up some alts. Just had to get them to 71 and then it was fun.

Oh well. I'll see how it plays out, but so far I'm less than happy with this. Not even in the patch notes The only people who benefit from this are AFK.

- Souca -