I’ve gotten maybe 3 (THREE) BG pops between levels 40-66, and in every single one of them, the amount of people that have entered has been too low to keep the match going, and it auto kicks everyone.
In every instance my ques were between 40 minutes and more than an hour. You need to buff BG xp NOW. If you don’t want people queing for BGs while leveling, just remove it from the group finder.
Since I don’t PvP, how does one fix the queue size for it? Can that be fixed? We obviously can’t fix the number of people queueing, but I don’t know if there’s some way to flex it or not?
Yea should just scrap pvp clearly
If battlegrounds gave great experience points, I would absolutely level some alts that way.
I gained about 10 levels in Alterac Valley on an old main. It was great fun.
At level 66 a BG will reward 13450 xp for a win. This is if you A: Aren’t auto kicked due to low lobby size, and B: win. A dungeon will give you 53850, and is nearly a guaranteed win.
Okay… I’m not sure what that has to do with what I asked.
Problem is that even if they increase the XP gains from BGs, people level so fast that they would blast through the brackets and you are mostly dealing with the same issue all over again.
Low level PvP’s been dead for years.
WoD, was the last time I actually saw it alive. Maybe a bit in Legion, too. Kinda died off afterwards.
I used to level alts exclusively through battlegrounds- it used to be good exp!
And, you could farm honor for max level sets before you even reached that level.
Low level PvP being dead, is just a symptom of the larger PvP scene as a whole.
We’ve got solo queue for a reason- the scene is pretty much being propped up by that alone.
If you looked in the Rated Battlegrounds panel, it’s almost always dead. Nobody runs 'em anymore, and if they do, they can’t find opposition to play against.
It’s real sad.
Also, leveling is so quick these days- perhaps they should drop low level BGs, as much as it pains me to say.
It was never balanced, anyway. Blizzard only cares about max-level PvP. (If even that, lol.)
Just too far neglected and underplayed.
I believe the theory is that giving BGs a worthwhile amount of xp would indeed fix the amount of people queuing, as leveling in BGs is incredibly inefficient compared to dungeons.
I think it was in wrath where AV wins would give you a lvl, and everyone was doing AV till they fixed it
i’m surprised they keep it around. This pillar is crumbling.
One interesting suggestion I got by a troll in the pvp section was to make it a 10-70 bracket. I have my suspicions that it would make scaling a lot worse, but, a long with a exp boost, it would definitely reduce que times. And leveling is just that, leveling, no reason to take it too seriously. I got blasted by marksmanship hunters in the 10-39 brackets. Sure it isn’t fun, but I’m not going to just never play bgs again. Plus they could just reduce hunter damage at those levels and 33% of low level BG problems would be fixed.
Edit: a literal troll, not like a forum troll or something.
Well I certainly wouldn’t. LOL I hate PvP that much.
rip old AV
There are better things to do between lvls 1 and 80 than random BGs.
We can’t force people to play in those brackets.
If you’ve got the solution though, feel free to submit your resume to Blizzard. Fingers crossed for you!
At some point Blizz is not gonna have a choice but to introduce bots to make up the difference in lack of players.
Same be a nice way to branch out from pve lvling
Generally when I see this, it’s repeated on when 1 faction outweighs the other. 
I think them adding “Free-for-All” battlegrounds or something that’s not necessarily Horde VS Alliance but some morally grey faction versus another – and then just split the teams accordingly – would help a great deal with some misbalancing problems. 
I’d say a series of practices could HELP it but as for “Fix” – Yeah, like you said you can’t really force people to queue for something 
As for the practices to help alleviate the issue, you could potentially have:
(Such would be done for the faction that’s lacking players to balance out the queue).I would say open the level range up for lower levels and help scale them to make up for the level-difference — buuuuut my faith in Blizzard balancing stuff, isn’t exactly all too high, especially for non-max level characters 
So yeah. lol
But the two dot points I listed earlier should at the very least help give good incentive or better team-management in numbers to the situation. 
I agree with you. It is time to end pvp. The only thing that given pvp any life is pvp streamers.