Alterac Valley

[Delc]

I spent all day saturday farming honor in AV (about 15k on the day), and I think I was in maybe 5 winning games. It seemed there were just as many alliance AFK as there were horde (games with 20+ afk excluded) so I don't think thats the issue. Terrain could be part of it, but if people were actually trying I don't think it would be an issue (most of the terrain problems are related to how easy it is to do the wrong thing). People spawning at SP, and in the alliance cave are practically forced to defend. People spawning at IB can't even tell if its being attacked, and can ride the other way. At frostwolf you can at least see if its under attack, but its easy enough to ride away. All of these problems would be a non-issue if people were playing to win.


The problem I see is a lack of any real incentive to win. Winning gets you 2 more tokens to destroy, and maybe 25% more honor at best. Honestly I didn't even try to win. I just went in and started killing lieutenants, and once they were dead farmed some HKs. Sure I could have joined the 2-3 other people on defense and slowed the alliance down, but why?


Also a note to the alliance players. Don't take stonehearth back from the horde. It practically forces them to turtle. I had one game go for over an hour, with most of that time spent as a stalemate between frostwolf and iceblood because the we couldn't get past the alliance to do anything else.