Battleground, Experience, and Twinks
There’s been an awful lot of hullaballoo over the recent rumors and suggestions by Blizzard CMs that at some point in the future, kills in battlegrounds could result in experience gains for characters below the level cap. I’ve experienced such a system first hand in my time at Warhammer and to be honest it was one of my best pvp experiences so far. The reason for this being that being able to level while fighting other players gives you a much broader spectrum in terms of options for getting your character to the cap.
In this way, it helps to lessen the “grind” feeling of repeatedly doing quests..killing mobs..going to the next area…questing..killing mobs. It may still be slightly repetitive, but I think there’s a much more replayable aspect to fighting other players that may think and react differently. That said, it appears that we may not be seeing experience from battleground kills for some time to come, according to a recent Blizzard CM post:
Battlegrounds wins/losses and honorable kills will not award experience after the next patch, nor upon the release of Wrath of the Lich King. It could always happen somewhere down the road as we work to improve PvP progression, but there are no plans for changing this in the immediate future.
While I understand that some players have twinks and enjoy them (blah), I don’t particularly endorse the practice, but Blizzard could allow players to have their cake and eat it too! Just give the players the option to turn BG experience off if they want to. That would allow players looking to level to gain experience benefits, while those that would like to remain at a particular level still have that option.
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