0. Clarifications on Changes to Alterac Valley 09/22/2009 05:45:33 PM PDT
With the launch of patch 3.2.2 today there have been some changes to the Alterac Valley battleground and we wanted to clarify what exactly has been done.
Level 80 characters now have their own bracket and there is a separate bracket for characters that are levels 70 to 79. This change was originally planned for patch 3.3 but it was accidently applied to the current patch 3.2.2. As we had already intended to make this change so that players who are leveling play together and players who are at the level cap play together, we will be keeping the bracket setup this way, but the level of the bosses in the brackets below level 80 will be reduced to compensate.
The reduced experience in Alterac Valley is due to the fact that Battleground experience is based off of the level of the Battleground. Characters level 70-79 are no longer getting experience based on level 80 characters. As a result of this, we are now able to do an across-the-board increase to experience gains from all Battlegrounds in order to make sure that no Battleground feels too unrewarding in terms of experience. We have also made it so the experience bonus from heirloom items works properly in Battlegrounds.
1. Re: Clarifications on Changes to Alterac Vall 09/22/2009 05:47:17 PM PDT
You ruined AV, thanks for nothing.
Way to spoil the party Blizz. Leveling was fun being able to mix PvP in with questing and still maintain a reasonable XP/hr rate (even pre-nerf AV was only equivalent to questing if you won every game). Now with AV being nowhere near questing, its back to the endless grind.
7. Re: Clarifications on Changes to Alterac Vall 09/22/2009 05:49:40 PM PDT
Q u o t e: With the launch of patch 3.2.2 today there have been some changes to the Alterac Valley battleground and we wanted to clarify what exactly has been done.
Level 80 characters now have their own bracket and there is a separate bracket for characters that are levels 71 to 79. This change was originally planned for patch 3.3 but it was accidently applied to the current patch 3.2.2. As we had already intended to make this change so that players who are leveling play together and players who are at the level cap play together, we will be keeping the bracket setup this way, but the level of the bosses in the brackets below level 80 will soon be reduced.
We have also made it so the experience bonus from heirloom items works properly in battlegrounds but the overall experience gained from competing in Alterac Valley has been intentionally reduced as we felt it was too rewarding compared to the other battlegrounds.
Well common sense would be increase the others, not decrease AV.
12. Re: Clarifications on Changes to Alterac Vall 09/22/2009 05:50:47 PM PDT
Q u o t e: With the launch of patch 3.2.2 today there have been some changes to the Alterac Valley battleground and we wanted to clarify what exactly has been done.
Level 80 characters now have their own bracket and there is a separate bracket for characters that are levels 71 to 79. This change was originally planned for patch 3.3 but it was accidently applied to the current patch 3.2.2. As we had already intended to make this change so that players who are leveling play together and players who are at the level cap play together, we will be keeping the bracket setup this way, but the level of the bosses in the brackets below level 80 will soon be reduced.
We have also made it so the experience bonus from heirloom items works properly in battlegrounds but the overall experience gained from competing in Alterac Valley has been intentionally reduced as we felt it was too rewarding compared to the other battlegrounds.
Seriously? Theres several bugs in this patch already, can't you revert it while you're fixing those up?
Reducing Experience, Requiring 40 players per side, and ripping out the 80's is a very drastic change to do in one patch.
