Comments on: The Secret to BG leveling.

By: Pugnacious Priest

Pugnacious Priest — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:23:39 +0000

I wouldn’t want to do 100% leveling through Bg’s for that reason. Cherry pick quests, do some bargin AH shopping, some pvp gear from honor will certainly be useable if you are going to pvp more.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:36:33 +0000

what about getting gear when you are pvp leveling?

By: mike

mike — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:39:29 +0000

Old post but I gotta say this. My Priest was lvl 51 2 days ago…now lvl 62. AV Call to Arms weekend. Each AV lost was about 30% XP and a win was a good 70%XP. Sometimes you would hope for 2-3 quick loses over a 20min win. All and all when your in the lower levels its best (to me) to just run around healing and fearing…as your miss alot of spells u cast on enemys. good luck!

By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:33:12 +0000

My rogue was stuck on 79.5 for a very long time too. At least 6 months. She had absolutely no resilience but I took her into AV and did my best to cap the mines and stealth my way to deserted towers to cap them.

I can’t get over how different AV is now. People don’t play to win, they play to earn XP. That’s not necessarily bad, and people are more willing to defend the towers that are capped, but there’s no unspoken agreement over who gets to cap which graveyards (I guess the enemy earns XP from capping those too?).

The games can last for a really long time too. In one AV I played we spent more time trying to summon the giant forest lord dude than win the map. We did summon him (with 200 armor scraps or whatever) but unfortunately wore down the enemy down to 0 reinforcements not long after we summoned him.

Most fun I’ve had in AV in a long time.

By: kavika

kavika — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:51:42 +0000

It also helps that in the 70′s bracket, you’re teamed with sometimes heavily geared level 80 toons that maybe even be in a small premade group, whereas in the 60′s bracket, nobody really has very good gear and the matches can become those stalemate aoe-fests. My method was to queue for a BG just after grabbing a bunch of quests. I’d enter, and right away you can tell if your side is going to win or at least cap some towers, or whether the match is going to drag on for 30+mins. If the match looked like a no xp gain, I’d just afk out and continue questing until my deserter wore off, then repeat. Leveled my druid from 70 – 80 in about two weeks of only playing a few hours every night this way…(about 3 to 4 hours per level). Of course I found that once I could hit icecrown my xp gain shot up a lot higher by doing quests instead such as the ebon blade dailies, valhalas etc.

All in all it was absolutely wonderful being able to level up via BG’s because I was actually able to play with other people. The lower levels are pretty damn lonely and boring.

By: leah

leah — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:20:02 +0000

I leveled my mage in AV from 76 to 80. a few casual AVs here and there, spell stealing, slowing, sheeping and freezing to my heart’s content. in worst cases, I’ve never had less then 200k xp per hour, with an average being about 400 to 500k. Best part is – you can just go in and instead of actually fighting, do all your AV quests (especially good if BG is not going well). you’ll still get xp for every tower and kill. blizzard was making noises about nerfing experience gain in AV soon. so far they haven’t, but its ridiculous as to how easy it is compared to solo questing or other battlegrounds :/.

on a plus side, Av taught me a great deal of how to be more mobile and quick thinking on my mage