Very interesting thread here boasting that 80 twinks are having fun these days. Of course there may be a few 84 xp off guys ruining their day but whatever BGs seem to be mostly 80s and mostly fun. It does seem that you have to queue at the right time though. During off-peak hours you may not get into any BGs at all.

For those of you thinking let’s go to 84 and crush these 80s, that’ll work. At least for now. Some people on the thread claim 81-84 will soon get their own bracket but I think they’re basing that on what they want. I haven’t seen any evidence that Blizzard is actually considering this.

Engineers have a lot of complaints. One is that other professions get stats or gear they can use in rated BGs and in arenas but engineering stuff can’t be used in either. Also, rocket boost (which used to be amazing in BGs) now malfunctions so often it’s not fun anymore. Leveling from 80-84, you can’t use the engineering epic helm even though it requires level 81. The mats aren’t obtainable until you get into heroics. I still remember being pretty tough around level 78 with my crafted blue pvp set and my epic engineering helm having fun in the BGs.

And of course engineers can’t make money.

Interesting thread here with a few different perspectives on low level BGs. The biggest issues:

1. damage too high so easy to get 2 shot / die in seconds
2. Rogues are OP
3. caster BOA weapons are 900 times better than other stuff
4. CC is OP since people die so fast

Check out part 15, the rpot pvp videos. Covering arena matchups (enhance shaman + prot pally vs all kinds of comps) and a couple of BG experiences it’s pretty interesting.

I like that holy pallys can now try to put out a little offensive pressure as well with holy shock, exorcism, hammer of wrath. They’ll never be as offensive as disc priests but those guys are broken now anyway so…

holy pally pvp guide (talents, macros, etc.)