Battleground XP! leveling?

[Smoooth]

It'll be great not having everybody in the BG be level 19,29,39 ect. There is real fun/strategy when there is a level range participating in the games. Send in the higher levels first and use the lower levels as backup and support. Or use them as bait but keep good heals on them while their team gets destroyed because they are being too narrow sighted.

I hope people really get into this when the xp comes, it could be really good for the game.

[Nopeace]

I am unbelieavbly excited about this change. I don't quad box much anymore, but I have been slowly 2 boxing all my alts to 80 recently. I have half the classes to 80 already, and the other half sitting at 70. When I originally solo leveled my preist I went into BGs at 51 and leveled to 60 purely from BG token turn-ins. Had full rank 10 gear and exalted gear from all 3 factions the minute I dinged 60. Then they basically got rid of the ability to level purely from BGs in TBC. I am SOOO happy that they are bringing it back.

My predictions:

1) Old school BG grinding teams steamrolling PUGs in all brackets. (I am actually excited for this, I am one of the insane few who wants the old lvl 60 pvp system back, and I know my friends and I are going to be slam-dunking hundreds of WSG flags :thumbsup: )

2) AFKing making a comeback. With the reporting system I hope it wont be too much of a problem, but giving bigger rewards for BGs is going to cause more people to want to scam the system.

3) Better BG preformance on both sides. Most people kill on the roads or in midfield because they are just in the BG to have fun. They don't really care about tokens or honor. This new system will hopefully attract people who want to win for the rewards, and will therefore play more intelligently (which in my opinion makes it even more fun).

4) Specifically multi-boxing will become more viable. From what I understand people have been having success in BGs with lots of differnent class combinations. Anything that takes the focus away from arenas and puts it into BGs is good for us.



I think I said excited like 5 times. It is going to be awesome.

[heyaz]

You'd have to run AV over and over for a few months, but yeah the honor would be nice. It's instant queues on Reckoning but horde wins about 10% of the games. It's like this on most battlegroups I've been on. AV is pretty flawed, but this could be great if you're alliance

[gitcho]

@heyaz

It's instant queues on Reckoning but horde wins about 10% of the games

I play on reckoning, and I'm not sure what you're talking about - I just spent the past week lvling my 5x spriests from71 -> 79 (almost there) ... I suppose I won about 40-50% of the games - and won ZERO games against your server's pre-made ...

About 6 times I ran into a Nathrezim AV premade that kept rolling the alliance - and by "rolling" I mean that they refused to "win" the game. They would meet the alliance at Galv, take all the graveyards, and force us back to the start - except they wouldn't just kill Vann & win. They would cap the towers, and leave one graveyard free (usually the first ally gy coming out of the tunnel). All alliance would end up spawning there to MASSIVE AOE from all sources (i counted at least 60 rogues spamming fok ) , that would kill you in less than a second - no chance to get out. Over and over we would spawn and die. They would eventually win when we ran out of resources - even though they would have the towers. 20-30 minutes games would net the horde HUGE honor ... on the 7th game i afk'd out right away and took the 15min debuff.

I was disgusted and awed at the same time - mostly I just felt kinda used

If you were a part of that mayhem, YOU SUCK ... and you're kinda awesome at the same time

[heyaz]

@heyaz



I play on reckoning, and I'm not sure what you're talking about - I just spent the past week lvling my 5x spriests from71 -> 79 (almost there) ... I suppose I won about 40-50% of the games - and won ZERO games against your server's pre-made ...

About 6 times I ran into a Nathrezim AV premade that kept rolling the alliance - and by "rolling" I mean that they refused to "win" the game. They would meet the alliance at Galv, take all the graveyards, and force us back to the start - except they wouldn't just kill Vann & win. They would cap the towers, and leave one graveyard free (usually the first ally gy coming out of the tunnel). All alliance would end up spawning there to MASSIVE AOE from all sources (i counted at least 60 rogues spamming fok ) , that would kill you in less than a second - no chance to get out. Over and over we would spawn and die. They would eventually win when we ran out of resources - even though they would have the towers. 20-30 minutes games would net the horde HUGE honor ... on the 7th game i afk'd out right away and took the 15min debuff.

I was disgusted and awed at the same time - mostly I just felt kinda used

If you were a part of that mayhem, YOU SUCK ... and you're kinda awesome at the same time

It has changed recently with BG xp.. alliance has a lot less 80s that aren't playing the proper strat, and horde tries.

I've been in our premade a few times. The strat is designed so run you out of reinforcements and make sure we end the game with every single resource under control. Also it's designed so that alliance gets pretty much no honor at all (we've seen allies end the game with 30 honor, whereas we get 2500).