Why not just include both AV’s that people want in the game and treat them as “different” battlegrounds so that people can queue for a “short” AV and a “long” AV?
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Because then people wouldn’t be forced to play the one version? Think of the que times!aaaa
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Because that just splits the players up and lengthens queues unnecessarily.
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That is indeed a very fair compromise.
But the reason the people who want 1.5 AV won’t support it is because they know deep in their hearts 1.5 AV wasn’t all that popular and given the choose 1.5 queues vs 1.12 queues would be even worse for 1.5 than when there was just 1.5.
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Not even just that it opens the door for to many other things.
If you get two AV’s why can’t I choose to level with earlier talents. We’re over geared lets go into settings and choose 1.11 threat and so on and so forth.
They can’t give us 2 versions of only one thing and expect people to sit there totally complicit in the one version of things they wish they had anothet option for.
Can you imagine two AV’s and no cross zone BG’s?
Yikes!
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AV 1.12 on-non RP servers and 1.5 on RP/RPPVP servers.
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Considering we will have cross realm BGs, there would be enough people to support both.
a) I sincerely hope you are wrong about CRBGs, ESPECIALLY right off the bat
b) CRBGs suck donkey balls and decisions should not hinge on presuming they will be a thing.
Unless of course 1.5 AV did indeed end up being so unpopular comparatively 
But CRBG were a thing in 1.12, since there building off 1.12 it’s a safe assumption
At this point I assume that every unanswered question will result in whatever answer is more beneficial to blizzard, rather than to those who were looking to come back to play classic solely.
Perhaps they could run the 1.5 version for a week out of each month; turn it into a semi-regular special event.
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Perhaps they could instead run 1.12 at that frequency.
This is probably the only good option. It would still require a ton of extra work and shenanigans but is the only reasonable option.
Again, CRBGs were a reaction to how players had thrown population and faction balances completely out of whack since launch. They were in Vanilla so they shouldn’t be off the table completely but if they’re not necessary they shouldn’t be used at all.
As far as CRBG’s they should try to prioritize same realm matches but not at the expense of queue time.
LMAO they should make it so AV weekend specifically is the week that 1.5 AV is up… LOL
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From what I understand, 1.12 AV didn’t have reinforcements and matches lasted like 5-8 hours. 1.5 AV lasted like a week.
My personal vote is 1.12 AV since I would wake up early on a Saturday with a hot cup of coffee and get a fun AV or two in.
As long as we don’t have reinforcements though I don’t really care.
Take it from someone who actually played during those periods, those numbers were anything but common and in fact were rare. The former is scare mongering and the latter is based on solid turtles.