Leveling in bg's 4 months ago in cata was by far the most fun I have ever had leveling or even playing wow. Unfortunately in current cata classic the XP is not worth queuing even on WSG weekend. It is a great way for people to learn their classes and get to enjoy their class abilities in pvp before reaching max level and max gear, its great casual fun and provides a great break from the monotonous grind of PVE.
here are some current issues and some simple suggestions that could fix the issues we see now.
XP is too low- im not sure if it got put to proper XP levels after the "quick fix" to the crazy bug on launch day where people gained 60 levels from one bg. Even winning the game on WSG weekend gave less xp than a normal dungeon with no quests , and took much longer to complete. a loss is even worse, at 1/8th xp and up to 1/24th as much xp per hour of a dungeon based on lvl 70.
You cant que both bg/rdf at same time or know how many people are in que for the bg. You "can" but the bg que is paused if you join dungeon que, so you cant just take whatever pops first. Because you cant see if the bg que is almost filled, people will just abandon it to go dungeon, and the BG will never pop. here is a screen shot of what it COULD look like
It requires full team to pop. While this is good and wouldnt be an issue if the bg's became more popular at low level, requiring 20 players to pop a wsg is much harder to achieve than requiring say 12 and letting 1 each team in at a time as it fills. This is probably a either or fix, either make bg give more xp thus driving up popularity or allow them to pop with less players and let them fill up as people who exit dungeons que both dungeon/pvp and then get the pop.
Place wsg/ab/av pvp vendors in the pvp area. Currently you would need to travel very far to get the AB/WSG gear/food etc and that can be dissuading especially as a 18 with no mount. The boots have a nice built in speed enchant and epic bracers are fun to obtain, this is just more incentive to play battle grounds.
Potentially allow purchase of gear that you cannot yet equip. I'm not too sure on the pros and cons of this but its something to consider.
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Leveling in bg's 4 months ago in cata was by far the most fun I have ever had leveling or even playing wow. Unfortunately in current cata classic the XP is not worth queuing even on WSG weekend. It is a great way for people to learn their classes and get to enjoy their class abilities in pvp before reaching max level and max gear, its great casual fun and provides a great break from the monotonous grind of PVE.
here are some current issues and some simple suggestions that could fix the issues we see now.
XP is too low- im not sure if it got put to proper XP levels after the "quick fix" to the crazy bug on launch day where people gained 60 levels from one bg. Even winning the game on WSG weekend gave less xp than a normal dungeon with no quests , and took much longer to complete. a loss is even worse, at 1/8th xp and up to 1/24th as much xp per hour of a dungeon based on lvl 70.
You cant que both bg/rdf at same time or know how many people are in que for the bg. You "can" but the bg que is paused if you join dungeon que, so you cant just take whatever pops first. Because you cant see if the bg que is almost filled, people will just abandon it to go dungeon, and the BG will never pop. here is a screen shot of what it COULD look like
It requires full team to pop. While this is good and wouldnt be an issue if the bg's became more popular at low level, requiring 20 players to pop a wsg is much harder to achieve than requiring say 12 and letting 1 each team in at a time as it fills. This is probably a either or fix, either make bg give more xp thus driving up popularity or allow them to pop with less players and let them fill up as people who exit dungeons que both dungeon/pvp and then get the pop.
Place wsg/ab/av pvp vendors in the pvp area. Currently you would need to travel very far to get the AB/WSG gear/food etc and that can be dissuading especially as a 18 with no mount. The boots have a nice built in speed enchant and epic bracers are fun to obtain, this is just more incentive to play battle grounds.
Potentially allow purchase of gear that you cannot yet equip. I'm not too sure on the pros and cons of this but its something to consider.