AV xp nerf in 3.2.2

[Psych]

Whew, glad I got my druid group mostly leveled up before this stealth nerf...it does make sense though, I was pulling down 450k experience per hour all day long in there last weekend. That beats quest/grind leveling as a 5 group for sure. 225k per hour is much more realistic...

[bartholomeo]

It was too good to be true. I'm glad i lvl up my last shaman to 80 a week ago.

@ ridere : I did the last 3 lvl's in AV when my first 4 were 80 ( blizzard wouldn't take my visa ), and that took me about 2 evenings of playing. 10-11% when we won. 2-3% when we lost.

[Ridere]

It was too good to be true. I'm glad i lvl up my last shaman to 80 a week ago.

@ ridere : I did the last 3 lvl's in AV when my first 4 were 80 ( blizzard wouldn't take my visa ), and that took me about 2 evenings of playing. 10-11% when we won. 2-3% when we lost.

Yah. I know it was the best route for us boxers to take before. My main question is if it's still better to exp in AV as a 5 boxer (even though it'll be slower than it was before). or if it'd be better to quest. I'd have both Heirloom pieces for either choice, and I'd have full rested exp for the quest route.

Any ideas? I really want to try and get both teams to 80 by the halloween event, so I can have as many chances a day to farm that mount

[Fat Tire]

One thing though that I can confirm is that the Inactive debuff kicks you out fast!!! Someone was talking about it and I said report me so I can test and bam 1min and kicked/deserter debuff. So now everyone who just chills in the cave jumping/bot jumping every couple of mins will get kicked out of the game instead of just sitting in the cave as a purple dot. ;p As soon as you go inactive you get booted!

[Fat Tire]

Yah. I know it was the best route for us boxers to take before. My main question is if it's still better to exp in AV as a 5 boxer (even though it'll be slower than it was before). or if it'd be better to quest. I'd have both Heirloom pieces for either choice, and I'd have full rested exp for the quest route.

Any ideas? I really want to try and get both teams to 80 by the halloween event, so I can have as many chances a day to farm that mount

Honestly with both heirlooms I still think its the way to go from 71-80. At the very least if you do it while questing, if the queues are long you are getting some quests done instead of waiting for the queues to pop.

[daviddoran]

I'm also glad I grinded it out last weekend on my 5 shaman. I still think it's the best way to go. No more getting steamrolled by 80s means that boxers are likely the most powerful force in the bracket. And now that they fixed heirlooms it's not as bad, 30% nerf rather than 50%

[Coltimar]

Man, on my 70-71 team I got less xp in an hour of AV than an hour of UK. Lol. That's terrible.

[Ridere]

I guess I will have to supliment it with questing. I imagine since they also broke off the 71-79 bracket and the 80 bracket, that the queue times will be a lot longer, too. Between the EXP nerf and the different brackets, less people will be queueing. I also read that they're not going to start a BG until all 80 people (40 each side) are ready to join, which may make it even longer of a wait in queue.

So yah... Definitely looks like it's going to be a case of questing while waiting in queue. And if that's the case, I better pick one of my two teams to work on, since I doubt I can get both to 80 by Hallow's Eve. Druids or Mages.... hmmm. haha

[d0z3rr]

That's just spectacular, this is how I planned to level my 10box team from 70-80 so I wouldn't have to quest through northrend twice.

[daviddoran]

That's just spectacular, this is how I planned to level my 10box team from 70-80 so I wouldn't have to quest through northrend twice.

I'd guess that it's still faster than questing twice. AV exp was more consistent, at least for me, than questing. I always ended up stuck on a low drop rate collection quest, or get camped by horde, and lost multiple hours of xp time. In AV, we only lost exp when we lost, but it takes less time to lose than it did for me grinding 50 low drop rate items off of mobs that don't reset fast enough... Also, if you are 10 boxing, and can successfully rush the end boss, you have a good shot at being able to secure a win all by yourself. I know that 5 boxing, I've turned the tides more than a few times. I was able to kill Galv along with a tank and a healer one game after what was largely a fail run, so i got my exp from that. If you can box drek/val you can likely win it for your team.