They increased melee damage like crazy my frost DK is lvl 84 and im hitting lvl 84 mages and priest for about 25k crits and I crit ALOT im thinking of leveling up 5 DK's just for ratied BGS...but yea as for rated battlegrounds its only been a week and i havent even hit my first 85 yet playing it casualy I say another 2 weeks and we will have more people doing rated bgs