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"Battleground experience now properly scales with level. This does not affect those level 33 and below, but on the top end reduced BG experience by approximately 50% to be in line with questing exp perhour."

I'd like to ask the team to reconsider the recent Battleground XP change.

The PvP realm is still relatively new and growing. One of its biggest strengths is that it offers a different leveling experience from the PvE realm. Players who enjoy traditional questing already have two great options for that. Battleground leveling, on the other hand, gives the PvP realm its own identity and attracts players who want to level through constant PvP.

Reducing BG experience by roughly 50% removes much of the incentive to queue while leveling. Longer queue times and fewer players in Battlegrounds can create a negative feedback loop that hurts participation, especially on a smaller server where population growth is critical.

Having meaningful differences between the PvE and PvP realms gives players a reason to choose one over the other. Battleground-focused leveling is one of those differences, and I think it's healthy for the server as a whole.

I hope you'll consider reverting this change, or at least reducing the severity of the XP reduction. Keeping Battleground leveling attractive will help maintain active queues, encourage new players to try the PvP realm, and support the long-term growth of the community.

PvE server things should impact the PvE server — if they want to quest x1 xp with multiple challenges so be it — we want BG XP ; probably more XP for most players ; dungeon boosting — because we can't self mobtag outside per your own rules, despite the PvE servers being allowed to, which is why it was allowed on Tel'Abim without problems etc.

A lot of the RMT is account buying and that's a problem they've created for themselves. If people can be helped to 60 fast they don't buy accounts! Simple as that. Sold accounts are just still as easy to ban if not easier due to them being the odd ones off and that's only if they're sold.

At this point I'm thoroughly convinced the devs have absolutely no clue what they're doing on many levels.

You're going to alienate your entire player base because you simply do not understand what they're asking for or what they want.

So many people on the PVP server as upset with this new change.. This isn't a good direction.

This basically tells Slow and Steady players "BGs are not for you".

Its a 75% less XP Nerf at higher levels. At that point mob grinding will likely be better XP...

@Level37 XP per tick in AB went down from 3150xp to 1117xp.

Yes please, revert this change on PvP server, it kills BGs even more and it shouldn't be a surprise people on PvP server want to lvl up mostly by doing pvp stuff.

For me with Slow and Steady exp ticks went down from 4800 to 1057 killing one mob at my lvl is 240exp i dont understand the Slow and Steady extra exp nerf.

Agreed, please revert the change.

Queue times are already too long for battlegrounds. and this will make things even worse. There needs to be an incentive for players.

Kestrel said that that BGs are now on par with questing XP which is how he thinks it should be. I would argue it doesn't need to be on par with questing XP as BGs happen infrequently whereas you can gain XP through questing 24/7. You might be queuing for a BG for 2 hours or more.

Losing teams also get far worse XP before this change, so I don't know how their XP gain will be on par with questing, it will be far, far worse now.

At first, I didn't get it either, but then I sat and thought about it, and it turns out the change is actually being done right. Kudos to the devs.

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PvP realm players currently getting pissed on and told it's rain.