I didn't get to experience the 71-80 AV run, so I'm a bit bummed I missed out. On the other hand, I guess I'm lucky that I won't have first-hand experience of what I'm now missing.

I agree that crying over the 35% reduction of EXP is lame, but... It's worth mentioning, that's not the only nerf that AV took.

AV will not start until all 80 people are ready to join, which means games will take longer to start. Less EXP means less people are going to queue. No 80s in the bracket means there's an even smaller potential pool for candidates, since we don't have a lot of the honor grinders Queueing for our Exp bracket. Those all combined are going to create majorly slow queue times.

What used to be like a 2-5 minute queue is probably upwards to 20-30+ minutes now.

I don't think I'll bother queueing, personally. My main desire to AV exp, aside from the increased speed, was the lovely gold I'd get going back and doing various quests I was able to skip. haha. But with Relic shoulders/chest and full rested exp, I think that just questing will be less of a headache.

Not to mention the AFK debuff thing. 2 minutes of auto follow on your toons, and they're going to be ejected from AV now with a deserter debuff. Yucko.