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The BGs Are Getting A Little More Fun – Level 34

December 05, 2009 :: Posted by - Inquisitor :: Category - Other, PVP

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Well 34 was a little better than 32 and 33, but I am seriously questioning my decision to try this.  What was I thinking?  Am I a jackass?  I think I have realized that when people say they leveled up in the Battlegrounds (BGs), they are either masochists or they do a combination of BGs and questing.  For these people the BGs may be the primary means of leveling, but they are also getting a huge infusion of experience from questing while they are waiting for the BGs.

There have been many times where I had to wait 20+ minutes to get into one of the two BGs that are available at this level.  This is a slow process when you are not questing. That is how I know that most of the people who claim to have leveled a number of levels in the BGs also supplemented them with questing. Let me just put it this way; leveling in BGs without any supplementing takes either extreme patience or you’re as crazy as a loon.

I have to say level 33 seemed like it took forever.  That was not a fun experience. But 34 was better, I am holding my own better in the BGs and my frustration of dying is fading away now that I can stand up to more of the other toons.

Right after I turned 34, I jumped in with no experience yet just to see how much experience I was getting from each individual battle in the BG.  Arathi was my test case and out of it I got 3,335 experience points.  That equates to needing 15.41 BGs in order to get the 51,400 experience I need to get to 35.

Well I wasn’t satisfied with that answer, so I tested Warsong Gulch later on and received 5,032 experience points, so Warsong is a better choice for experience from my unscientific test.  There may be a number of factors that Blizzard has programmed into the WOW interface to determine experience, but these were my numbers at level 34.

Another realization I came to was that I don’t like a number of people who play this game.  During a Warsong battle I wanted to buff people since I am a Paladin and so as the game goes on I throw out some buffs.  Well there was one instance when I thought I was buffing a warlock and gave out Wisdom.  It turns out it was a rogue.  No big deal.  It did not hurt him to have some extra wisdom, but he could not leave well enough alone.

The ass decided to start bad-mouthing me in chat saying that I was an idiot and other derogatory terms to his friends.  Well, I am not one to let an attack go, so I stood up for myself making sure that he understood what I thought of him and his buddies.  It got a little ugly, but I held my own.

The sad fact is that I should never have had to defend myself in chat to some unhappy a-hole. There was absolutely no reason to start bad-mouthing me because I accidentally gave the wrong buff.  These are the types of players that shouldn’t get any buffs, from anyone. In the end it goes to being polite online.  There is very few times that you need to be an ass to anyone online.

The problem is that many people have lost the understanding that just because you are not looking someone in the eye does not give you the right to say inappropriate things to them.  This guy would never have stood face to face with me and said that. Online makes people brave, rude and inconsiderate.  Why not try and be a good person online or off?

Well that is all for 34.  Here comes 35 and 36.

Editor’s Note:

“Online makes people brave, rude and inconsiderate.  Why not try and be a good person online or off?” This can be summed up with one picture:

John Gabriel's GIDT

If you play WoW or Xbox live you know this to be true!

-Ozimandias

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  • Skoda

    I mean this in the nicest possible way, you need to learn your class better. I’m leveling in BGs as a pally as well, and am finding that I am having a fairly easy time of it. A pally has so much survivability and utility, that they are ideal as lowbies in BGs. You’ll also need to keep in mind that you are not going to top the HK board, and that should never be your goal. You can play a major support role until you get to 36 where you will be killing everything.

    All that said, if you encounter a recently leveled twink, or a lvl 39 who knows what they are doing you will get destroyed. But that’s okay, it’s part of the fun.

    Here are a few tips:

    - Judgments – when you are chasing down that flag carrier, or trying to help your’s use Judgement of Justice to slow any mounted or sprinting player down to a walking pace. Otherwise use JoLight unless your mana is low then use JoWisdom.

    - Auras – Get good at switching auras on the fly, for most melee classes you want to use ret (rogues will pretty much just kill themselves with ret aura). If you find yourself against a mage/lock/priest (locks are probably the hardest class to kill) use your fire/frost/shadow resistance auras.

    - Seals – enemy healer getting too many heals off switch to justice, you are carrying the flag switch to light for some extra heals. Otherwise use SoCommand for big crits.

    - Hand of Freedom/PVP Trinket – Have these bound to a twitch key so that you aren’t slowed down.

    - Exorcism those fleeing rogues, blinking mages, etc with low health.

    - LayOnHands your flag carrier.

    - You can consecrate, judge, heal when bubble or HoProt is up.

    Here is my toon, currently a lvl 44 having run primarily BGs since 32:

    http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Grizzly+Hills&n=Skoda

    I have the majority of the WSG achievements (more fun that AB IMHO). You get more xp for a win, until patch it’s about 5-7% I think.

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