BG EXP Question

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Sorry to keep on this topic, but I was wondering if a Blue could answer/ask a dev a question I have:

Why is there no experience gained from HKs? It just seems like a weird limitation and I don't understand the rational.

This isn't a QQ, just an honest question.

Thanky.

We do want players to focus on the objectives of each individual Battleground. By offering experience for completing the objectives necessary to win a game, we effectively incentivize the need for a team to focus on strategy. If experience was based on honorable kills alone, corpse camping out in the world would only become a bigger issue, and players in Battlegrounds would be encouraged to farm kills and drag out matches as long as possible, whereas we've made adjustments to several Battlegrounds to shorten the length of each match.

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I appreciate the answer, but I still don't understand why we couldn't have an XP bonus at the end of the match for HKs. Objectives could be worth more, but getting something for actually fighting other players (as opposed stealing their flag) just feels 'right' to me.

The theory really isn't different from obtaining honor in Battlegrounds. Farming kills is ultimately not as efficient as winning a match as quickly as possible and re-queuing. Perhaps there will be Battlegrounds in the future where the objective focus is more based on slaying your opponents, and that alone; but the Battlegrounds we currently have available involve strategies where you kill who you need to in order to capture a flag or hold a capture point. Awarding experience for each kill will take away from the focus of the match.

With all of this being said, please keep in mind the system is very new and hasn't been tried out by the community yet. All of the details of the PvP experience system are subject to revision once we see it in motion. Our current feeling though is that awarding experience just for farming kills in Battlegrounds detracts from the objectives of each Battleground, or the need to actually win.

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So make people gain xp from both. However, make going for objectives a faster way of getting experience. Is this not reasonable? Regardless of what happens, mid field camping will happen. At least it won't be wasted time in this case.

It's not unreasonable. We'll see how things turn out.