Make Blackrock crossrealm optional for IC,FM and Lord.
The more I play both BG's and arenas, the more I'm convinced Blackrock is detrimental to the rest of the realms, not only they have an unfair advantage in terms of starting gear but also the fact that is just a fun server that has nothing to do with the other ones.
>Starting with relentless set and 258 weapons by the face.
We start with nothing, the max weapons we can access by the face are 239.
>Instant 80 and ready to play, implying the repercussions on getting banned are none to zero. As easy as resetting the IP and creating a new account.
Nobody that has been playing here for long enough would risk his account using scripts or hacks, meanwhile almost every blackrock player is either a consumated scripter or a script maker trying to figure out ways to bypass your anti-hack/script firewall.
>AFK in Bg's to farm honor, just press q button and accept once every 20 minutes, end up having 20k honor a day by just standing in the BG.
There are always atleast 1 to 5 of those in every single BG, always. It has become extremely tiresome to try to win a BG while you have a bunch of AFK blackrock players leeching honor.
Just make it optional like MM, let people choose if they want to play with Blackrock instead of forcing it upon us. They have enough players to be playing among themselves, and we have enough to play among ourselves, nobody needs this.
I belive when Blackrock was introduced to the crossrealm BG's, The staff agreed on gear that would be somewhat normal on the other realms, gear that most of the population had or close to it, So that people who wanted to try PvP on blackrock woulden't be cannon fodder to Icecrown players and vice versa.
The biggest problem about blackrock would be as you mentioned, Scripters, BG AFKers, Cheaters, I seen a few obvious cheaters and they were all blackrock players, About AFK I seen all realms do it, blackrock has the majority most of the times but last time I did AV, I saw 5 Icecrown players AFK and start and all Blackrock players were active.
I would still recommend keeping blackrock in the crossrealm though, the population on blackrock has even grown because of the crossrealm, and what would they be without it, a BG with 10 people AFK? Blackrock would fall to dust.
The solution to all this is more GM's who can monitor game related things and even tickets, cause atm Warmane dosen't have the manpower to improve a lot of "Quality of life" situations, especially situations created in the first place by players.