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

[shaeman]

I've found some of the longer AV's to be the most fun.
Okay it slows levelling down, but I love big battles - and the encounters help me get better on my team.

Mind you I am one of those annoying turds that won't stop trying to the bitter end.
I got grief recently coz I admitted to wiping the alliance on Drek'thar.
I thought it was funny - yet they just wanted to lose and get on to the next match.

I mean it's, all very well getting honour and XP but you gotta have fun too.

I've been in enough BG's where we've won against all the odds to make it worthwhile.

[Multibocks]

If you are only leveling up 4 characters and have one 80 already AV is usually a win for you. Holding IBT or tanking Galv with no heals can make a huge difference. I find most horde attack my 80 first because they think he is the highest threat when really 4x Crusader Strike and 4x Divine Storm is a lot of damage on one person. I went 12-2 today with the losses being due to the WHOLE horde showing up to Galv and defending. Those ones I should have afk'd out of because they took forever to lose. =(

P.S. Hitting 80 and having 3-4 pieces of PvP gear waiting is awesomesauce.

[heyaz]

P.S. Hitting 80 and having 3-4 pieces of PvP gear waiting is awesomesauce.

I know, it's really awesome. Worst thing on both of my groups I've leveled to max (one to 70 and one to 80) is after that terrible grind, you've got several more days of sitting in AV before you have any gear at all. That grind will be half way done immediately

Plus, most heroics were super easy even when my shaman had nothing but hateful gear, no pve stuff at all. Now that I have a geared tank, if I decide to do heroics with the new group, couple of crafted pve pieces + deadly gear and it's a breeze to farm marks and get the real stuff.

[Marathon]

I get 18k exp for a tower cap at 73. And about 7% or 8% of level if our side wins. 3 or 4 % if we lose. I love it. Plus I am getting honor like crazy.

[Multibocks]

Ugh tonight has been awful, horde has some arena equipped groups in all my AVs. I cant seem to dodge them. 0 xp and I even /afk'd out of a bunch. Makes me want to punch kittens.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Horde his kicking butt on Bloodlust, in the 70 bracket. I'm like 19-4 and 3 of those loss were games I didnt start in. Just hit the 71 bracet (I am only running one toon my paliden) and got a lot of honor and exp even though I didn't contribut much against all the 80's ....

Not really sure if I should try:

4 mage 1 pal
5 mage
3 mage 2 shaman
4 shaman 1 pal
5 shaman

I dont like using blizzard so thinking i could fire spec 4 mage (and 1 pal to pick up incoming melee) and strike from afar. But someone did well with 4 shaman in the 70 bracket also. With the Pal I go out on the kill Blenda and Van route, maybe with a 5 box team I should play defensive as thats what they seem to do but I like where the action is at the spearhead.

This is great fun its like not grinding at all. Then I go back to BT do a pull with 22ish mobs and get in the next que lol ...

[Akera]

I'm in Bloodlust (Alliance) also, after an hour in the 70's bracket on my level 60's toons I never went back.

71-80 bracket seems to be about 50/50 in the sense that one day you win 90% the following you lose 90%.

[blast3r]

I started taking advantage of AV ( I love it anyways) and went from 75 to 77 today. I did the ness quests in scholo but the rest was AV for the most part. Incredible.

[Souca]

Just an FYI, the DKs hit 80 tonight. From 74 on it was pretty much AV with some quests thrown in to open up areas like Shadow Vault and do some Argent dailies starting at 77. Deadly gloves and shoulders plus 20k honor, so all in all it's a win scenario. If I had quested, I'd still have to do AV to grind out the honor. Now I have almost all of Northrend to quest for money if I get bored of dalies.

Also, Army of the Dead times 5 will rake Galv to 50% before his whirlwinds kill them. One healer and you are good. Better gear will remove the need for a healer, but I'm only sitting at 17k right now, so those hits can hurt.

Feel bad for the lowbies sometimes. Most of them die before they even land from the Death Grip. Pallies are getting easier with a well timed Strangulate since they generally don't worry until 35% and if they don't bubble fast enough I can usually burst them when the Obliterates start to hit.

Bah, I'm babbling now. I need sleep.

- Souca -

[suicidesspyder]

Yea my most fun is my locks and 3 times fel hunters. Pallies dont stand a chance now and if i put in a shadow priest they really wont lol. Just dot times 25 felhunters stun and interrupt then i do the death coil round robin becuase you know hes gonna try anything to get out of it. So with 1 after the other hes screwed lol and even if he pops bubble he cant kill me 5 times fast enough before his bubble wears. Since i do drain life from a buddy of his lol. He sees his buddy going down starts to heal not knowing hes healing me while i wait for his bubble to go bye bye.