Good evening
Gearing is a long process and works really well, when u have more than 1 char to cap it every week.
I have much more awesome bgs as horde than alliance, because horde playes better than alliance. If u wanna equip a char, u should go horde cz instant queue and nice win ratio. Alliance queues are longer and bgs are often decided at start, because you see a lot of greenies/known noobs or afks at flag.
It's the point that I lost a lot of bgs as ally despite 30-40m heal cz alliance dds are often too bad (0 focus, 1mio dmg in 3-5mins in zerg, 0 kicks). That's really frustrating, so I think about healing or leaving in every joined bg. Horde is more relaxing.
Queue time: instant-4mins; it depends, which side is dominating=4mins queue while other fraction has instant queue. There are more allys than horde in pvp, that's why queue is basically higher than horde.
Wpvp is quite dead, tol barad and twinter don't work. 2 vs 2 has fast queue, while 3 vs 3 is much longer and 5 vs 5 is still dead.
Kind regards