Hello everyone, hope you all are having a wonderful day!
So I’ve been looking at PVP in certain brackets especially for those that are leveling, and it seems once you hit above level 29, the only BGs you get from randoms are Seething Shores since random Epic BGs you just don’t have enough players.
Now this has been going on even before the Winds of Mysterious Fortune began. The queues for just random BGs once you hit certain brackets are just abysmal. I’m talking like 2-6 hour queues and that’s just to get Seething Shore BG as a random BG. So far this is how it is for each bracket.
30-39 Seething Shore
40-49 Seething Shore
50-59 Seething Shore
60-69 Warsong Gulch, Seething Shore
Once you hit 70, then the random BG and epic BG queues return to normal and you can actually get BGs other than Seething Shore. Leveling BGs are in need of an incentive for those to actually queue for those. Like maybe make the gear obtained from the boxes match what you can acquire from farming dungeons instead of them being uncommon, or even make the gear scale up to what you can acquire from timewalking raids so they don’t feel week when they are entering BGS and arenas like how level 80s in crafted gear scales up to 652 for season 2 of TWW.
This is just my opinion though. If anyone else has an opinion, feel free to post. Would love to hear your response to leveling BGs. 
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My dude they barely care about end game PvP.
Not saying you don’t have a good point, just that this probably isn’t even on Blizz’s radar.
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There just isn’t a reason to do this when Timewalking exists.
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They should massively buff XP from BGs. Like, give two levels per win and half a level for a loss.
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Some more xp would be nice too. Not saying that they need to be as fast as doing dungeons, but they should be a viable alternative.
Would also help if they were cross faction with role balancing so you don’t get matches where one team has 3 healers and the other has only 1. It’s balanced at max level but now low levels.
Also could balance teams by ilvl so you don’t get a situation where you’re facing a bunch of twinks on the enemy team all night and there’s no hope to winning.
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A big challenge is they’ve made PVE levelling so fast now that players don’t bother with low level bgs.
Chromie twinks spoil the 10-19 bracket because of the “Oh look at me I can one shot you!” You know the challenge of pressing one button to kill an opponent (and they have the nerve to argue about the one button rotation coming up ha ha)
The old BG Vendor gear from AB and WSG has never been looked at for years. I find that very sad tbh.
Unfortunately there is just not enough interest nowadays because Blizzard has never revamped or took time to update low level gear etc. Ion’s vision to destroy PVP is well on track. We are the dog dirt on the bottom of his shoe that he can’t quite shrug off.
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One thing I absolutely loved about Guild Wars 2 was that you could actually level in PvP and it was actually pretty fast and you got decent loot from it too. I leveled my necromancer mostly in the WvWvW PvP and all my alts spent a lot of time in there while leveling too.
Even in WoW I will usually spend level 77+ always in queue to do battlegrounds, not just for the xp but so I have enough honor by the time I hit 80 to buy a full honor set. Yes I know honor can be transferred but I like to dodge the 25% tax.
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I used to almost exclusively level in BGs. Loved it. Now I’m forced to PVE to level which I don’t really enjoy too much. No challenge whatsoever. 
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One should, at least, get as large an XP bonus for finishing a leveling BG as one does for finishing a leveling dungeon
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