I love...

[Mosg2]

...AV weekend!

...Despite the fact that Alliance has a 70%+ win rate against us poor Horde on my BG ><

32k honor so far since yesterday afternoon. I plan to quadruple that before the bonus honor goes away. I can sleep later

[butta]

Haha nice. I remember when I leveled my rogue up it was AV weekend. Got him 3 pieces of the old High Warlord stuff that weekend.

[Diamndzngunz]

Despite the fact that Alliance has a 70%+ win rate against us poor Horde on my BG

Hey you guys win and WSG EYTS, and AB most of the time. Give us AV.

[Mosg2]

Meh, I'd rather have a 50/50 ratio on all BG's than get hosed on honor for AV. What's the point of being able to farm up tokens easily if you're behind on honor? ><

I'm just stunned that they're going to make it even harder for Horde to win in 2.4. As it stands, we're already 2 minutes behind on a full rush for 4 bunker caps.

[Dor]

The one av i got to play on test pretty much panned out how I thought it would..Alliance loses due to even the stupid hordelets playing d since we all reach IB at the same time.

[Mosg2]

Gone though are the days of 10 minutes ~400 honor wins/losses once 2.4 hits. Le sigh.

[Stealthy]

70 AV's on the weekend - Horde won 3. Yep, the battle group for Mag sucks as horde.

At least playing 5 shammies is AV is a blast. Nothing clears a flag like 5 x Fire Eles.

Cheers,

Stealthy

[thinus]

I'm just stunned that they're going to make it even harder for Horde to win in 2.4. As it stands, we're already 2 minutes behind on a full rush for 4 bunker caps.

Rush? You are stuck in pre 2.3, there is no rush in AV anymore, not if you want to win. In our battle group Horde dominates AV, probably 90% win ratio. We usually have about half the Horde defending at IB. If it is crappy Alliance we repel the initial attack, take Snowfall and then just crush them at SP and then take the bunkers in their base.

If they are a bit stronger we will usually lose IB and then slow them down as much as possible at FW and in the base to give our offense time to cap bunkers and win it.

[Tamu]

The Shadowburn Horde own AV unless the Alliance have a preform. Oh, and Glaives do nasty things. ;(

[Mosg2]

I'm just stunned that they're going to make it even harder for Horde to win in 2.4. As it stands, we're already 2 minutes behind on a full rush for 4 bunker caps.

Rush? You are stuck in pre 2.3, there is no rush in AV anymore, not if you want to win. In our battle group Horde dominates AV, probably 90% win ratio. We usually have about half the Horde defending at IB. If it is crappy Alliance we repel the initial attack, take Snowfall and then just crush them at SP and then take the bunkers in their base.

If they are a bit stronger we will usually lose IB and then slow them down as much as possible at FW and in the base to give our offense time to cap bunkers and win it.

As my little pre-AV message goes to the battleground, the quickest way to get honor is to get the 4 bunker caps and hold them for a 10 minute win or loss.

I guess my problem is that Blizz has for some reason decided that if Horde wants to win 50% they have to play D, and if Alliance wants to win they have to play rush. The imbalances in the map and NPC's are just ridiculous--If I do a full rush with a Pally for aura I can cap AS about a minute after Alliance *at best*. Doing this requires a blocker to take the damage from the Dun Baldar bunkers, absolutely nobody defending AS, and at least one pet totem to tank while I cap.

There's just something inherently unfair in that--I understand that the same strat doesn't necessarily have to work for both sides, but the way the game is designed right now it heavily favors Alliance. Sure, you might win 90%+ games, but they're longer games AND if you keep it up the Alliance on your Battlegroup will inevitably boycott as they've done on many Battlegroups. I'm just saying that it should be fair any equitable

We want our Alliance to keep que'ing, so we don't go for the scorched earth strat. By doing so we're condemned to a 70%+ loss ratio. It's a lose lose I tell ya!