On Leveling in BGs

I started leveling my 52 shaman this way, and I digress, the 50's bracket is probably the single worst place to start leveling in a BG. This is DK heaven, where you will walk in with 2-4k HP varying by class and every DK will have 6k HP, be back peddling, and 1 shotting you. Once you hit about 56, where I am now, it levels out a bit and I actually feel like I'm doing more than spamming chain heal in AV, but herein lies the problem of leveling in BG's. Just because it is worth EXP does not make anyone on your team any smarter. These brackets were always riddled with twinks pricely because the picking was very, very easy. The people you will be playing with will on average have maybe 2 skills bound and are clicking the rest. Moreover, you're lucky if most of them know what the objectives are, much less where they are. I actually found a hunter who was LOST in a WSG today. He could not find out where either flag, or the enemy was. He was walking in corners. It was something out of the Darwin Awards, to be sure.

Another likely problem is that if you are not playing a healer, your team will have absolutely no healers. There's really no motivation to be a healer in the first place as the minute you suddenly decide to update your gear by questing, you have to try to level as resto which is a grand pain in the ass unless you bought dual-specc already. Which you didn't. The entire current leveling in BG system is just a bit off for the simple reason that technically speaking in large scale battlegrounds there's a huge motivation to do absolutly nothing and just reap the free EXP with no negative consequences.

The simple solution is simply to make EXP work the same way honor does. Each kill on an any player is worth exp, more exp for doing a lot of healing or a lot of damage/kills because otherwise there's really no reason to be a healer unless you're feeling particularly nice (Read: masochistic). This would also fix the problem of the heirloom shoulders and rested EXP doing nothing for you in BG's other than looking real pretty and giving you 1% damage reduction due to resil (**** yeah).

It's not really clear whether Blizzard ever intends to make this a primary way to level or whether this is just to be a break from the quests you've done 3-4 times on other characters. If it is indeed the former, it would be a hell of a nice way to do things with a few tweaks. Realistically, starting even from level 50 I'm sure by the time I hit 80 I'll have a full 75k honor with full marks to turn in for another 100k after. This in itself will pretty much give your new character full hateful/deadly/whatever is available for that season the minute you ding. Sure, realistically it's just another form of grind and I don't think anyone truly thinks otherwise, but I'd rather choose my grind, what can I say.