2026-07-29

[Zeniet]

I don't get all this being mad about leveling slower in BG's? Not zooming to 60 is litteraly one of the tenets of the server this one is based upon, so the devs wanting us players to not do that, is completely in line with that. I haven't done BG's yet, I mainly play PvP server for the ability to freely gank players in the open world, but from what I hear, it was quite fast compared to leveling. There are plenty of servers out there where you can zoom to 60 and play the endgame content you want.

[Zeniet]

if you need turbo xp to play vanilla wow then maybe it's not the game for you
stop crying and be glad you got to abuse it while it existed

Yeah because rerunning stv for the 50th time is really interesting when I just want to do the custom twow endgame content. This made bgs interesting.

How does increasing the exp of something make that something "interesting". Do you mean "more dopamin inducing"?

[Rezedevil1]

Patch notes 2026-07-29

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.

This is not good for pvp server. It was the most satisfactory thing to lvl up with BGs for me. Now people will queue even less. We already got low pop and BGs dont pop much, but its still few of them per day. I got in every leveling bracket many pops. The thing that repels people the most joining Octowow, from what I asked my friends, is such a slow leveling experience. I was hesitating as well to join Octowow with 1x xp but at least quick rested xp from inns made me give it a try.
Im happy im playing and you are doing awesome job, but please, dont nerf anymore xp gains on pvp server. Taking the legacy from twow on this wouldnt be bad to have 2x xp rates since it proved just right for us and community felt good with such rates. And please revert this BG xp nerf, BGs will pop even less

[Xallog2]

if you need turbo xp to play vanilla wow then maybe it's not the game for you
stop crying and be glad you got to abuse it while it existed

Yeah because rerunning stv for the 50th time is really interesting when I just want to do the custom twow endgame content. This made bgs interesting.

How does increasing the exp of something make that something "interesting". Do you mean "more dopamin inducing"?

No, it gives me an alternative way to level that isn't blowing my brains out vs a mob as a warrior

[Zeniet]

Yeah because rerunning stv for the 50th time is really interesting when I just want to do the custom twow endgame content. This made bgs interesting.

How does increasing the exp of something make that something "interesting". Do you mean "more dopamin inducing"?

No, it gives me an alternative way to level that isn't blowing my brains out vs a mob as a warrior

So playing the game "blows out your brain"? You can still queue for BG's and get experience, just not abusively so.

[Yotca]

Patch notes 2026-07-29

PvP & Battlegrounds:

Previously, when a group killed a civilian, every nearby member took the dishonorable kill. Now only the player who tagged the target does

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.

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You cannot possibly be this tone deaf — PvP players are asking for more xp whatever and however the source to be able to actually play the game ; the server is partially empty because a lot of people created characters on PvE after being told multiple times transfers would be a thing and don't have it in them to level yet another character!

• We didn't get that!
• We didn't get 2x xp as Tel'Abim was
• You nerfed dungeon xp and dungeon mob tagging xp on the PvP server so paid boosting will be rampant since people don't want to help for that much/long
• We already can't self-mob tag outside due to PvP server restrictions but PvE gets a free pass?!

And now you nerf BG XP on top of everything else — how disconnected are you all?

I had to fight you on warlock summons and trading capital alts/mules — the dev team constantly finds new ways to look like they're trying very hard to alienate the player base.

There's a reason different servers have different rulesets and different settings! Stop globally applying the dumbest changes to all servers without consulting players.

You're truly going to be looking at a hot mess the second classic+ comes out if you keep up this crap. Turtle made polls & asked players for years which is why the servers were set up as they were and the players currently here are asking for exactly that. I have over a dozen people that aren't returning because they do not want to spend 120 hours leveling — jobs — friends — life in general! People want to play the game and specifically the end game PvP/raid content not this "leveling is part of the journey" bullshit that you're peddling.

99% of us had at least one fully geared lvl 60 character if not multiple! We do not want to have to grind levels again on top of raids/PvP ; you are not developping some new server and new community from scratch!

Keep the PvE crap changes off the PvP server — you've already straight up lied or disrespected us enough for growing discontent. Just go check the discord see what shit show you've made on top of what's happening here.

Enough is enough. Respect the legacy left behind by Turtle wow, respect us.

[Xallog2]

How does increasing the exp of something make that something "interesting". Do you mean "more dopamin inducing"?

No, it gives me an alternative way to level that isn't blowing my brains out vs a mob as a warrior

So playing the game "blows out your brain"? You can still queue for BG's and get experience, just not abusively so.

Have you ever levelled a warrior before?

[Paladinlyri]

New player here: I moved from the PVP server to the PVE server simply for BGs. I think it would be a great idea to keep the PVP server with the high XP buff to encourage more PVP, while the PVE server would benefit from higher XP for dungeons.

Unrelated: I really like the cross-faction pvp. It's pretty awesome.

[Kestrel]

Given the most spicy topic here is clearly the BG EXP nerfs, our thoughts on this are simple. BG's should not award 50% more experience then all other forms of leveling.

Out intention is not to stop people from getting to 60 or force them from questing and anyone arguing such is doing so in bad faith. After these changes BG's should be ON PAR with other forms of leveling, if you want to do BG's to level you can, if you want to quest to level you can. Both will get you to 60 at about the same rate.

If you feel the leveling speed overall on the server needs adjusting that is a separate conversation that has been had before and will continue to be had. Please be sure you are addressing the correct concern in your posts.

[Xallog2]

Given the most spicy topic here is clearly the BG EXP nerfs, our thoughts on this are simple. BG's should not award 50% more experience then all other forms of leveling.

Out intention is not to stop people from getting to 60 or force them from questing and anyone arguing such is doing so in bad faith. After these changes BG's should be ON PAR with other forms of leveling, if you want to do BG's to level you can, if you want to quest to level you can. Both will get you to 60 at about the same rate.

If you feel the leveling speed overall on the server needs adjusting that is a separate conversation that has been had before and will continue to be had. Please be sure you are addressing the correct concern in your posts.

Sorry you're straight up lying, aoe farming is faster and you haven't done shit to change that