08-15-2007, 04:08 PM
Sadly, I don't think you can 'fix' AV, its become too poisoned, too tainted in the minds of the playerbase. Personally, I like the BG, but I can't stomach what's its become.
Honor Farming is the death of AV. And as long as the focus of the BG is honor farming, you won't be able to 'fix' AV and make it fun again.
On my first server, Undermine, in the Nightfall battlegroup, the Horde won AV about 60% - 65% of the time. This was back in the summer to winter of 2006, and I was alliance then. Despite the horde winning more, it was still a lot of fun fights, I maxed my rep with stormpike and even got a riding ram.
When I rerolled and started a horde mage on Fenris, Whirlwind battlegroup, just a few months before TBC, I was disgusted by what I found there. The Horde just walked into AV, and laid down, waiting to lose. I might still be neutral with Frostwolf.
Like I said, I liked AV, initially. I like the big map, the abundance of options, the large number of players. WSG doesn't feel like an epic fight, it feels more like your average FPS public server. AB is pretty good, but EotS? Bleh, tried it once, saw that the horde wasn't interested in anything but farming HKs (and the chat made it plain this was the overwhelmingly expected result) and left. Pity, looked like a fun BG, too bad I never got to play it.
I just got back into WoW, missed the entire arena season one. Has it changed? Are the honor/HK farmers working the arenas now, are the BGs any better? From the sounds of things, I guess not.
Honor Farming is the death of AV. And as long as the focus of the BG is honor farming, you won't be able to 'fix' AV and make it fun again.
On my first server, Undermine, in the Nightfall battlegroup, the Horde won AV about 60% - 65% of the time. This was back in the summer to winter of 2006, and I was alliance then. Despite the horde winning more, it was still a lot of fun fights, I maxed my rep with stormpike and even got a riding ram.
When I rerolled and started a horde mage on Fenris, Whirlwind battlegroup, just a few months before TBC, I was disgusted by what I found there. The Horde just walked into AV, and laid down, waiting to lose. I might still be neutral with Frostwolf.
Like I said, I liked AV, initially. I like the big map, the abundance of options, the large number of players. WSG doesn't feel like an epic fight, it feels more like your average FPS public server. AB is pretty good, but EotS? Bleh, tried it once, saw that the horde wasn't interested in anything but farming HKs (and the chat made it plain this was the overwhelmingly expected result) and left. Pity, looked like a fun BG, too bad I never got to play it.
I just got back into WoW, missed the entire arena season one. Has it changed? Are the honor/HK farmers working the arenas now, are the BGs any better? From the sounds of things, I guess not.