@Kalaghan: Wow @ the Warlock. The flag-carrying fatigue was probably a good change, even if it is more frustrating for healers.

One really bad WSG I was in over the weekend was where the other team had 2 priests, a pally and some resto shaman/druids. It was not so bad because our team was actually working together, but it took about an hour and they eventually won, they had more healing than we had dps. Killing healers is hard when 2 other healers are healing the healer! And you have few mages to sheep em all.

@NotAnIssue: I think the major thing that has changed is that Alterac Valley isn’t the guaranteed win for Alliance that it used to be. I’d say, premades aside, that it’s pretty 50/50 lately. We’ve lately taken to playing defense and wreaking havoc on the Hordies who try to jet past all the graveyards to zerg the Alliance Base. Good times.

Arathi is still pretty much a guaranteed loss, it seems like Horde wins more than they lose in Eye of the Storm, and Warsong over the weekend was about 60/40 Horde/Alliance, but granted it was a pretty small sample. So I think the Horde still has an advantage (superior BG racials and stupidly favorable geography in Arathi Basin), but that the gap has closed a little. Or maybe I’m just that much better/making that much of a difference. /flex LOL

@Abagoo: You did … what now? Gross, Abby! At least she has cleanse.

I’m horde, but in my battlegroup we win AV 80% of the time (typically in 10-15 minutes). Which, of course, makes zero sense as the Alliance have it so easy in AV. We do, however, lose Eye 90-95% of the time, and AB probably 70% of the time. And, WSG sucks so I don’t count it….lol If a queue is longer than 5-6 minutes, I always assume the BG servers must have crashed.

Have you seen a change in BG behavior now almost 1 year after that old post?

I wonder if Blizzard will put some sort of resource type schema in place for WSG? Though given that there are 3 other BGs that have “time limits”, I doubt it.