The state of Battlegrounds and PvP Gearing on Icecrown
Dear all who read this.
I don't want this to be taken as me whining or complaining because I'm salty that I'm not winning or something stupid like that, it's merely a surprising speculation that I think should be looked at or addressed by Warmane staff.
I have been 80 on my Horde Rogue for quite a while now on the Icecrown server.
I can say, hand on heart, that after queuing many many battlegrounds over the past week, I have not won a single one.
The faction imbalance in terms of battleground readiness and ability seems incredibly imbalanced.
Once again, I must stress. I have not won a single battleground whatsoever.
Now there are a number of reasons I have observed that I believe to be the case. Every time I enter a battleground the alliance have these incredibly geared 35k hp+ players who just dominate and wipe out our entire team, whilst almost the entirety of our horde side has sub 20k hp.
I was under the impression that there was a gear bracketing system. I think this is being entirely subverted mainly and predominantly by members of the alliance who enter these battlegrounds in almost a twink state. I'm not sure how this is done, perhaps by taking off gear before entering the battleground, I'm not certain how the system works.
I'm finding it incredibly infuriating that almost no matter what I do, our horde side just gets obliterated and wiped out by these twinked out level 80 DK's and Paladins *from what I've noticed* who just entirely outgear our entire team. I just left an Arathi Basin which genuinely ended in under two minutes because our team were unable to even approach a single base without getting onehit.
Introspectively, perhaps it could be because Alliance players massively outskill all horde players, but as the law of averages, I highly doubt this is the case.
I want to use this thread for people to give their experiences and discuss why this might be the case.
It's becoming almost impossible for me to attain even a single piece of PvP gear because my side is just getting wiped out every single battleground no matter the circumstance and we just instantly lose all hope to continue.
TLDR ; From what I've noticed, Alliance are just an overly dominant force in 80 battlegrounds to a extreme dangerous degree that makes PvP'ing on the server as a horde member both not fun, and totally a waste of time.