Mercenary mode causes pvp imbalance
Playing as alliance without mercenary mode is becoming very difficult, 80% of BGs are fullfilled with pm from both horde guilds and alliance guilds playing on horde side. Also a lot of bis alliance people joining solo will still be there in the horde side, meanwhile Mercenary mode is not active for hordies so this can't happen the other way around.
Results?
Horde dominates BGs most of the time with all kind of mixed pm playing together against the remaining alliances.
A lot of people doesn't want to activate mercenary mode and changing into races they didn't choose to begin with, imho it should either be disabled (do we really need this?) or at least improved, add it for the horde too, or something else just take into consideration that there is a problem.
Mercenary mode ruins the PVP
With all respect to Pretorean and his effort to do a good job for the community, having the best intention, we must say that Mercenary Mode is bad for this Server and clearly favours Horde side. Until now Alliance was matching Horde premades in BGs but with mercenary mode it is now bunch of random people versus both Horde and Alliance premades, since only PVP guilds are doing the mercenary mode systematicaly as well as geared people soloing.
Low gs players that are farming honor to gear up are not doing the MM, infact, only full geared players are now using it and playing for Horde in BGs. Yesterday I played 12 Alterac Valley and won only 1. Because that is the battleground you will encounter a premades mutch often because of 40man raid.
And instead of those players on Alliance side, they got replaced by random Blackrock relentles players that are testing classes, afk-ing and so.
That being said, I find this feature favouring horde + full geared alliance that are abusing this feature in order to farm more HKs, low gs people get nothing out of it.
Mercenary mode should be removed or limited to certen amount of times per day you can do MM. (like 3 times daily per account). Otherwise people will stop playing.