WOTLK - Battleground brackets? (61- 70 or 70 - 79?)

[Bergthor-bloodsail-buccaneers]

Have some questions about how blizzard is going to be structuring pvp brackets for WOTLK classic.

Has blizzard stated that you’ll be able to freeze your experience in WOTLK classic if you want to stay as a twink?

Does anyone remember which patch changed the battle ground brackets from 61-70 to 70-79? Was that a change pre or post Cata? I used to be a lvl 70 pvp twink and quit when they implemented that bracket change. I know it was around Cata release when they did that.

[Kungfu-sulfuras]

@Pazorax-1880

Hey Everybody!

I’m here to talk to you about gaining experience from PvP in Wrath of the Lich King Classic.

We’re going to re-introduce experience gain based on honor earned as well as the ability to turn off all experience gains, but we’ve decided not to bifurcate the matchmaking queue based on that feature.

The ability to earn experience from PvP was originally added to encourage people who enjoy PvP to do battlegrounds as part of their leveling up experience. However, this collides with the desires of a specialized PvP community, who enjoyed locking themselves to a particular level-bracket in PvP, such as level 19 Warsong Gulch. Since PvP experience would cost them the ability to lock themselves to a particular bracket, we also added NPCs who could turn off your ability to gain experience entirely.

Originally it was decided that these two groups shouldn’t play in the same matches with one another. Players who had disabled experience were separated into a different battleground queue, but the result of this decision was that neither group had enough players to find matches, defeating the point of both systems. What’s the point of giving experience in PvP if you can’t find a battleground match to do it in?

Having seen that effect, we’re going to keep these groups queuing together, so that both groups can find matches. While an individual who isn’t optimizing their capabilities for level 19 might not be able to compete on an individual level, it’s more fun to play a game with people of unequal capabilities than it is to not be able to play at all.

To summarize:

• We’re restoring the ability to gain experience from PvP activities at the same rate present in patch 3.3.5
• We’re restoring the ability to turn off your experience for 10g from Behsten and Slahtz in Stormwind and Orgrimmar and respectively.
• We are not bifurcating the queue, and players who have turned off experience will continue to matchmake in the general pool so that everybody has the highest chance of finding a match.

I hope these changes help keep low level battlegrounds alive in Wrath of the Lich King.

Thanks for your interest and support!

I don’t know about the brackets, but you can freeze your experience.

[Phobowarrior-whitemane]

I have not heard of this but I didn’t play much post cata

Brackets are x0-x9 for most bgs
And x1-x0 for av

I can’t remember for strand of the ancients

[Bergthor-bloodsail-buccaneers]

I remember that the brackets were also locked at 51-60 and 60 for WSG for pvp twinks also.

So level 60s and level 70s could still pvp. Then they changed the brackets down the road and destroyed the lvl 60 and 70 PvP systems.

[Charax-emerald-dream (Charax)]

AV: 51-60; 61-70; 71-80
WSG: 50-59; 60-69; 70-79; 80

If you’re a 70 twink, you’re top level for AV and low level for WSG. 70 was its own bracket for WSG during TBC, but WotLK will increase the bracket to 70-79.

[Bergthor-bloodsail-buccaneers]

That’s a mistake to do that. I don’t think it was like that in WOTLK either. I know they changed it to that later.

[Charax-emerald-dream (Charax)]

I really don’t think they ever had WSG as 61-70.

Back in original Vanilla, they had WSG as 51-60 but then decided to change it to 50-59, and 60 as a separate bracket. When an expansion would come, it increased to 60-69 for WSG.

[Jeddite-grobbulus]

Unfortunately, there just aren’t enough players to keep a “Level 70 Only” bracket for LKClassic.

That said, if you’re planning to re-roll, think about turning to Level 70 into a Level 79 twink/alt. You can keep your Level 70 gear, and a Level 79 in AV is fine (particularly if you’re a healer).

[Phobowarrior-whitemane]

maybe WSG was always 70-79 but no one could test it?