08-24-2006, 09:33 PM
Quote:On [EU]Kel'Thuzad, waiting times multiplied. There are 15 AVs, 47 WSGs, 53 ABs and always a waiting time of 40+ minutes. I guess the faction imbalance is nearly the same on all servers in the battlegroup.
I may be wrong but I don't think faction imbalance is the issue. I suspect there is hardware to run only so many battlegrounds, and you don't get in until those ahead of you have finished. On Stormrage last night people were waiting hours, or at least over an hour, in queue for WSG. In contrast AB averaged about ten minutes.
Given that I am totally new to BG since last weekend, I don't have a lot of experience to compare. I do know that it was a lot of fun, even with the problem that Mongo described with getting in and the other problem of being stuck in the BG and unable to get out. Other than one AV (where I have no idea what is going on) all I did last night was AB.
The worst AB was losing in moments with no HK's and several deaths. We never saw what hit us. The most interesting was when there was someone who took charge of an alliance PUG and seemed to know what they were doing. He/she had macros set up and assigned people to tasks at the beginning. The leader explained that AB was all about defense and asked us to "refrain from glory". Baguette's job was to take the blacksmith's shop and hold it. Which she did. Only one banner, 3 KB and 5 HK for Baguette but we won handily. And she didn't die.
The most annoying person in BG (actually from the night before) was a warrior friend of a friend who kept complaining about not getting healed. I said: "Find a healer."
The most frustrating moments were losing one on one to an undead priest and another when I thought I had gotten away from an out numbered fight, with no mana and a shred of health, only to be caught.
We also had some long, come from behind victories, which were very sweet.
The last two AB of the night were loses, but Baguette led the Alliance stats. From an operations research point of view (not that I know any more about operations research than than about BG) I don't know what strategy is best. As I understand it we are really competing with our own faction for honor, not with Horde. I'm not sure whether the object is to win games or not.
"I may be old, but I'm not dead."