You guys are presenting this as though 100% of every player donated for 100% of their gear and they're all super bad but because they have these items and Lordareon is still on Ulduar season and we're being forced to play against 100% completely BIS premades every single game. In reality, there's plenty of lower geared and near-fresh 80s in Icecrown and Blackrock queueing into BGs as well. All of the gear available on Icecrown is available on Lordareon, and even easily more obtained on Blackrock. If you're so unbelievably undergeared that you don't have 264 avg GS in PvP gear with 264 offpieces on Lordareon, make a toon on Blackrock until your Lorda toon is geared enough. Alternatively, git gud scrub.
He specifically stated "7x realm" instead of something like "retail PvE content/values". BiS PvE offpieces are very easily obtainable in the current state of Lordareon.
http://armory.warmane.com/character/...daeron/summary
Here's one example of someone whose not BIS by any means and who is still pushing 2.3k in soloq. He also has a 2.6k hpala with similar gear quality in soloq. You don't need a ton of gear to be super competitive, and yet you're suggesting you're incapable of playing PvP because gear isn't standardized like it is on retail WoW. Git gud scrub.
These are all of the worst BGs, correct.
Average of 7 Lordareon players in the games I queued into on NA hours (see: not peak hours). So now being 7/30 or 5/20 of the BG is not sufficient enough to qualify as active for you guys, it has to be a higher percentage, or otherwise "PvP is dead". Everyone benefits from crossrealm, from consistent queue pops to a higher population pool to play from so when one side (assuming no crossrealm) gets tired of being graveyard farmed by the same premade for the past 4 BGs they just stop queueing and the queues don't come to a screeching halt. Hell, when people stop queueing for specific arena brackets you can feel the time increase in queue time, and that's only 2-3 people on a team; BGs require minimum 5 players for a game to start -- remind me how many 5s games have popped in the past 3 years.
This is also completely ignoring arenas, which are thriving on Lordareon, but you guys are too braindead to do arenas so of course that's never brought up.
git gud scrub
Then go see who is queueing, talk to them when you finish the BG, and ask if they want to queue together. Build your own ****ing community. It's like you people just want to be hand held and have everything done for you. You just want to walk into a 4000 PvP server and have a full roster of people to play with so you can run around and bash normal players in BGs. I demonstrated queueing on off-hours can give you a couple of friends to start queueing with, so go do it for yourself. Actually the most insufferable, entitled people in this thread.
tl;dr git gud scrubs