AV used to be an awesome alternative to world pvp - just go in and kill. I remember my guildies would be in one, and the next night, it would be the same battle. It was really complicated at first, with all of the things you could do, now, it's just an HK/Honor grind. It's really a shame, they put a LOT of work into that BG, and now, they don't seem to really care about it at all.

I ran it a LOT in Season one and two on my rogue, you'd still see the bosses spawned, and you still had NPCs to help, you could still loot the opposition for their medallion (made them spawn in their starting area, I think...been a while. I do know it was a BIG deal in Season 1, if you took a Hordie's medallion, they'd come looking for you afterwards) The last time I saw the druids spawned was in Season 2, and that was because one guy was telling everyone they dropped epics.

Even in the first two seasons, you could have some epic battles, there was no timer - I was in one that lasted over two hours, a bunch of us just decided to have some fun and just gank as many horde as possible, the horde seemed to agree, and we just went at it. People came in, would cry and moan about marks, and leave. There was a core of about 20 of us who did'nt care. The nerd rage from the mark grinders was EPIC. The tide of the battle went back and forth so many times we lost count, I don't even remember who won, but we all racked up honor and HKs and had a BLAST. I remember we were even fighting in the caves to the SW of the Alliance base for a while.

Good times.

They could revamp it, add some Wintergrasp/IoTA elements, and bring back the NPCs and objectives, but I just don't see them even entertaining the idea. Cata would be the perfect time to do it, with that part of the world being massively changed, they could change the objective of the BG and rebuild it.

Oh well. At least it's still good as a place to cut your teeth as a BG MBer.