AOE spots or low hp elites for 70 - 80 grinding?

[heyaz]

I actually tried out AV last night as a way to gain XP.

I found that a level 72 it was far too easy for my group of 5 Mages to get decimated.

Example, a Rogue appeared out of nowhere and within 4 or 5 seconds all 5 Mages were dead thanks to the Rogues Fan of Knives AOE ability.

I also found that unless your team captures objectives and wins AV, you don't get very much experience at all.

Spending an hour playing 2 or 3 Alterac Valley's, not winning any, and walking away with maybe 50,000 XP really sucks.
Especially compared to the 3 or 4 quests at 23k each I could turn in during that time, in addition to the NPC kills I would have been making 500XP each from.


It was a lot of fun in AV, launching 5 arcane barrages followed up by 5 fire blasts taking down people left and right.
Blinking into a big group and AOE'ing the heck out of them causing a panic.

But for now AV just doesn't seem to be worth it.
Although I probably still will play 1 a night, just for fun and some honor points

yeah one rogue or any aoe'er will kill your whole group. when I level lowbies in AV i run my 4x shaman in furious/deadly gear and hold the choke point and recap towers. even as horde we seem to win.. lowbies get about 1.5-2 bars per game. if you don't win though, it's about half a bar....

I dunno, looking at how long it took me to quest/instance grind to 80, and then having to spend literally months grinding honor to gear up for pvp, I wish there had been bg leveling back then. Even if you lose every single game, and it takes approx 10 hours per level, that's about equivalent to trying to grind or quest with a 5 man group (the xp is just terrible in northrend for multiboxing). The only difference is, you'll pretty much have a full set of pvp gear the minute you hit 80.

Alliance is pretty predictable in AV, they do the same flawed rush strat every game. if you're squishy I recommend just hanging back until a few towers are capped, and then going and re-capping them. Any capable horde team will be able to win if you recap once or twice. Alliance also seems to have almost no 80s in AV anymore, it's all lowbies. I don't know if you have any 80 steam but it's actually quite easy to wipe alliance over and over at Drek because it's mostly 75-79s. Funny to see a group of twenty 70-somethings pop heroism and 30 cooldowns to kill 4 80s. meanwhile horde is up north winning