QQ No Moar!

The biggest complaint while I was levelling in AV ALWAYS came from the L80's. It seems that Blizzard were already listening...

With the launch of patch 3.2.2 today there have been some changes to the Alterac Valley battleground and we wanted to clarify what exactly has been done.

Level 80 characters now have their own bracket and there is a separate bracket for characters that are levels 70 to 79. This change was originally planned for patch 3.3 but it was accidently applied to the current patch 3.2.2. As we had already intended to make this change so that players who are leveling play together and players who are at the level cap play together, we will be keeping the bracket setup this way, but the level of the bosses in the brackets below level 80 will be reduced to compensate.

I have to say this change could not have come soon enough. It will put to an end the deliberately-engineered premades with 10-15 L80's who surge forward to cap and then leave sub-80's in their wake to defend. Yes, I'm only annoyed at this coz no-one on my server has the time or the foresight to do this, but still... It's a welcome change, as is the confirmation in the patch notes that heirloom items will grant you XP in BG's as well.

All the machines here are patched. The Guild did one last Ony run last night. All I can do now is wait...

Details!

So, just to confuse me further, MMO has details of what gear drops in which of the 6 new modes of the new dungeon:

Trial of the Champion (5-player) Normal mode: Item level 200
Trial of the Champion (5-player) Heroic mode: Item level 213
Trial of the Crusader (10-player) Normal mode: Item level 232
Trial of the Crusader (25-player) Normal mode: Item level 245
Trial of the Grand Crusader (10-player) Heroic mode: Item level 245
Trial of the Grand Crusader (25-player) Heroic mode: Item level 258

So... you gotta do the 5 man normal to access the Heroic mode (if I read it right, or I could just be getting more confused) and I assume you have to access the 10 man normal... [Head Explodes] No, it's just all too much. Why do I have a sudden desire to return to forty man raiding so I can just stand at the back and slack all the time???

Anyway, 623 modes of one instance aside, there is now a list of just some of what I will be able to get for my Champions Seals come 3.2. P has 191 currently neatly piled in her bags...

Argent Crusader's Tabard: 50 seals
Argent Pony Bridle (for your squire): 150 seals
Bind-on-Account chest pieces: 60 seals
Bind-on-Account weapons: 60-95 seals
Bind-on-Account trinkets: 75 seals
Argent Warhorse/Argent Charger (epic ground mounts): 100 seals
Quel'dorei Steed/Sunreaver Hawkstrider (epic ground mounts): 100 seals
Silver Covenant Hippogryph/Sunreaver Dragonhawk (epic flying mounts): 150 seals
Shimmering Wyrmling (pet): 40 seals

The Bridle is, of course, the much anticipated Pack Mule/Portable Bank that made me not go and buy a Hyppogryff the moment I had 150 seals. Hooray for knowing Blizzard always have a Plan B. I am assuming the BoA items will include what is currently on offer plus the new weapons. I think it'll be Bridle plus pet to start with and we'll take it from there...

Back later with the promised update...