Low level Bg bracket change?

[Fullgore]

I read a few weeks ago that blizz was planning on changing how the low level bg brackets work.
For example if you enter the 80-84 bracket as a 81 you would automatically scale to 84...
Is this change coming in 5.2 or was it just a rumor?

[Deleted]

never heard of something like that. reading news all the days...

[Snuggli]

never heard of something like that. reading news all the days...

It was posted a while ago in the dev watercooler

Smoother Battleground Brackets – We have technology now to scale down player items for Challenge Modes, and you might be aware that we scaled up player items during our beta raid testing. We’d like to use the same mechanic to scale up players within the lower level PvP brackets. For example, in the level 15 to 19 bracket, we could make all characters behave as if they were level 19 for purposes of the Battleground. If this idea works well, we could potentially condense lower level brackets and maybe reduce queue times.

I've looked around and can't find a date, i'd presume it's coming in 5.3 or 5.4.


edit: this is where it's from http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/770...PvP-10_31_2012

[slackjawsix]

i read they were doing that im pretty sure it was suppose to be for 5.2

[Nights]

There is no any confirmed info about this beein aplied in any near futhure, too bad. Tho kinda stict taken from gw

[Syh]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/8226552#battlegrounds

Players in low-level Battlegrounds will have their effective level raised to the maximum level allowed in that Battleground bracket. Players' base stats and spells are scaled accordingly, and are treated as the same level when determining hits, misses, and critical effect chance.

I'm pretty sure it'll be in 5.2 judging from that. They could back out last minute with it, though.

[Fullgore]

Wonder how this is going to play out... could be a severe blow to twink community

[Elegiac]

Wonder how this is going to play out... could be a severe blow to twink community

Blizzard doesn't like twinks. And quite frankly, this change is long overdue; people that are new to the game would get discouraged by the abysmal state of low level PvP.

[Starsinn]

Blizzard doesn't like twinks. And quite frankly, this change is long overdue; people that are new to the game would get discouraged by the abysmal state of low level PvP.

Ive personally introduced 2 new players to the game that quit before level 40 because the game is so confusing to new players. One of them was real excited about the pvp until he did a week of battlegrounds. He was pretty dissapointed that after a week of dragging his mage through bgs and getting raped by rogues and hunters there was 0 reward. he had some honor points but they are useless until level 60.

[Kozuke]

I heard something like that as well.
Not sure if it's true though :l we'll have to wait and see until 5.2.