Alterac Valley confirimed for 1.12

[Kenneth]

Alterac Valley changed a lot throughout vanilla specifically the 1.12 vs 1.5. This means matches probably will not last for days like some of you remember. From 1.6 and on they did a ton of changes to AV. There is a reddit post by user Mumfo that breaks down each pass which was than summarize by user SoupaSoka.

1.5

-AV added to the game.

1.6

-The respawn time for tower guards (assuming the tower has not been destroyed) has been greatly increased.

1.8

-A great avalanche has closed off both the eastern and western segments of Alterac Valley. This has displaced the Syndicate Wildpaw Gnolls, and many of the Winterax Trolls.

-Due to the avalanche, Korrak the Bloodrager and a small band of surviving Trolls have made the Snowfall Graveyard their new home. Players will find that Snowfall is now under Korrak’s control and they must defeat Korrak and his Troll guards if they wish to take Snowfall.

-NPC difficulty has been scaled down. All NPCs have had their power reduced by 15-30%.

1.10

-Korrak the Bloodrager and his band of trolls have packed up their bags and left Alterac Valley for greener pastures.

1.11

-Most of the NPC guard units have been removed.

-Creatures that remain in Alterac Valley have had their hit points reduced.
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And this leaves us with 1.12. Less NPCs, weaker NPCs, race specific loot when you loot the enemy faction corpse removed, etc.

The thing we have to remember here is Blizzard probably did this because not only did the map get buffs, nerfs, etc but it also changed. Graveyard positions, paths, and more all changed. So it wouldn't make much sense for Blizzard to pick the 1.5 version just to have to update it to what the result ended up being later on anyway. This also is good to keep in mind because apparently Blizzard couldn't recover the full data of Classic WoW so they are rebuilding a lot of this. So if you were looking forward to 6 hour minimum AV's then I am sorry to inform you that it definitely will not happen. RIP Korrak.