I think one way to balance these two battlegrounds could be to make the Mercenary Mode mandatory. It's become evident that the reason why most of the battleground is spent in the graveyard (if you're Alliance farming, and if you're Horde getting farmed) is because the Alliance, thanks to a group of players who only play these two battlegrounds, have developed a specific tactic to not miss a single kill. This might have been fun at first, but after years of doing the same thing, I would have gotten tired too (I'm saying this as an Alliance player, I imagine Horde players got tired much earlier than me). But maybe I'm the only one thinking this. I would like to hear your ideas on balancing PvP on Icecrown at least a bit.