Alterac Valley

[Kevin]

What horde never, ever does, at least in my BG (from Terenas), is defend. That is simply counterproductive, from an honour perspective.

Yeah, that is something that I didn't touch on in my huge post. I used to be a nasty defender in AV. On my hunter or my warlock, me even just 3 others could really halt the alliance progression and there would be days that I would go in there and just love defending everything. I remember games where the 5 of us at Galv did so well that the alliance just gave up him and tried to sneak by to FW GY instead where we could go smash them again. It was a lot of fun. Other days I wouldn't want to play D so I would join the offense and have fun doing that. I didn't play my shaman that much before AV was already getting destroyed and just turning into the PvE general killing race but I did play Treesh's and it was great provding that healing for the front or the defense.

I had fun in games where we got Lok summoned and/or the wolf riders. And on the days when I couldn't be as attentive as others but needed to play so that I wouldn't lose ranking I would collect wolves and still be helping the team.

Yeah it would be nice if defending got you something. But yeah, like you, as I mentioned, if they deleted AV tomorrow, I wouldn't really care. AV as it is now isn't remotely like it was before and it's something you endure because it's faster honor on AV weekends (and can be on non AV weekends as well) than the other options. Even when we played with other Lurkers yesterday we still just raced better than the alliance (though we did ninja back a few towers at times which never happens horde side usually). But it was still a lot more fun. The battleground could still be fun, but right now? No even close.