01-24-2008, 05:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-24-2008, 06:00 PM by Pantalaimon.)
Quote:Basically, before the reinforcement change, where the victory condition was to kill Vanndar or Drek'thar, the final chokepoint was the telling one. FW Keep's layout is a joke, the Dun Baldar bridge is far far more defensible - Alliance had a massive advantage before. Now, with player kills able to determine the outcome, that later chokepoint pales in significance in comparison to the earlier Horde choke, IB GY.
Very well put! My take is that even without Horde pre-mades, horde PuGs now know to defend the IB chokepoint, and how ridiculously easy it is to wipe alliance on galv compared to vice versa with balinda (an issue which I won't dwell on overmuch, as it's a well known fact.)
Now that horde PuGs are adopting this strategy, even without the complication of the mod, alliance have ceased to win the majority, or even a worthwhile minority, of matches. And the horde strategy isn't even terribly difficult - the chokepoint is, admittedly from an alliance POV, but trying to be objective, nearly as good as the bridge, perhaps even better because you can get strange healer (dwarf? lol) LOS issues from the hill near Galv's entrance. And it's worlds better than the alliance equivalent near SH GY. Our bridge is just too bloody far back to be of much use these days, when most AV wins are not from general killing but reinforcement attrition, AND the horde can usually reach "our" first tower before we can, giving them an instant head start on reinforcements even if we don't wipe on galv.
Edit: Also, a phenomena I don't quite understand and perhaps someone could explain to me; but why do the number of AFKers increase when the apparently likelyhood of losing increases? It was formerly the horde that would /afk in AV, and now that horde win most of the time there's 10-15 alliance AFKers... it becomes one of those infamous "self fulfilling prophecies". Not only that, but with horde often shutting out alliance, the AFKer is quite literally wasting their time in terms of honor per hour, so there's *actually* no purpose!