Embarrassing: MMO-Champ Readers' Favorite BG is Alterac Valley

[zorkuus]

Lots of alliance players propably voted for AV while the horde vote was more evenly split between multiple BG's.

[Baracuda]

AV is fun when you have some people helping you attack/defend towers, if you go alone while everyone rushes it's boring.

[Huntermyth]

not this utter crap ( no surprise there, only 2 bgs that alliance dominate are av and ioc ) version but old av was a real battleground.

apart from that obvious, i would pick wsg or battle for gilneas.

[Skarssen]

Favorite battleground poll: http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...weets-FCM-Poll

So it seems our favorite BG is a skill-less PvE zergfest.

It's not even really PvP. Unlike, say, Arathi Basin or Twin Peaks, there's no skill involved in Alterac Valley. It's not about who uses their class abilities better. It's about who spams their AoE hardest. Personal skill is mostly irrelevant. And the objective of this favorite BG? Kill a PvE boss.

This is an utter embarrassment.

We should all hang our heads in shame at the results of this poll.

I'm guessing you play horde and don't bother to backcap towers

[Korgoth]

I'm guessing you play horde and don't bother to backcap towers

Was doing AV on my new lock all day yesterday. I doubt even 1 in every 100 horde players will attempt to back cap in AV.

What's really sad is the number who do it on the Alliance is way higher, and it actually hurts the Alliance! Since having already won the cap race we just have to D the towers then kill the boss. So having our players on the other side of the map retaking a tower that doesn't make a difference if it caps or not is a complete waste, and if they do recap it and kill the horde, then you have Horde spawning down south, and then you might end up with them playing Turtle, and drag out a 10min win into a 20min win.

And god forbid you try to explain this to the Alliance back capping.

[Hooliganz]

People who voted AV most likely had the old AV matches in their mind.

On a side not, I did over 30 AV matches the last 2 days on my Horde alts and I won only 4 :P

when u said 4 wins out of last 30 matches i thought it was me who wrote this comment


i agree about the pve part ,and thats why Ally win it most of the time
but still if u are a group of 5 defending Galv running mid in the field at the start of the game slowing others down
or recapping towers its pretty fun u have lots of stuff to do
in AV u decide if u want to pvp or not

[ciggy]

The old AV was the best BG in the game..the new one one of the worst. Maybe the poll should have specified old/current AV so it would be more accurate :P

The new av is a shell of the old one, and it's still decent to play. I truly dislike most of the others.

[Wildtree]

Was doing AV on my new lock all day yesterday. I doubt even 1 in every 100 horde players will attempt to back cap in AV.

What's really sad is the number who do it on the Alliance is way higher, and it actually hurts the Alliance! Since having already won the cap race we just have to D the towers then kill the boss. So having our players on the other side of the map retaking a tower that doesn't make a difference if it caps or not is a complete waste, and if they do recap it and kill the horde, then you have Horde spawning down south, and then you might end up with them playing Turtle, and drag out a 10min win into a 20min win.

And god forbid you try to explain this to the Alliance back capping.

There goes this debate... Let me chime in..
When I do AV on my horde toons, this is what I have on winning statistics..
1. Gotta have tanks.... For some weird reason, times and again, standing outside the boss room with no tanks on horde side..
2. If you start to back cap, you entered the loser street..
3. It's extremely helpful to switch to PVE gear for the boss fight itself.

It's just what it is.... Alliance grabs whats on the way, but essentially just zergs down to the boss...
And while a bunch of hordes are busy trying to back cap, the remaining force misses these forces to take on the boss..
Result..... Sound plays....... Alliance wins..

The BG objects became (unfortunately) almost useless and are only a hindering on the race to the kill.
Pretty much every win I get on horde side happens when there is no back capping, when the entire force zergs. Maybe a few stealthies that are able to slow down the zerg in the boss room with collaborate team work to wipe them...

[Buxton McGraff]

Seems to me like the vast majority of people on these forums are strictly PVE because they either don't like or can't handle PVP.

[Wildtree]

Seems to me like the vast majority of people on these forums are strictly PVE because they either don't like or can't handle PVP.

IF a PVP battle breaks out in AV, then it is hands down the best BG... Even today these battles are still epic, but unfortunately way too seldom.

[AeneasBK]

Some of my guilds raiders favourite moments in WoW have been when we queued for AV as a 5 man group and decided on an objective for that game (hold Stonehearth Bunker, cap and burn FW towers early, Summon Ivus) and stuck to it. AV has so much potential even in its bastardised form for truly epic moments with friends.

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IF a PVP battle breaks out in AV, then it is hands down the best BG... Even today these battles are still epic, but unfortunately way too seldom.

You're not alone in that opinion - whenever I queue solo for AV as I'm rarely doing it for honour after the first week of an expansion I always encourage as many people as possible to defend Balinda. It usually garners enough support to ensure theres enough horde ressing down south to create some friction. Try it, see if it works on NA servers (you're NA right?)

[Wildtree]

You're not alone in that opinion - whenever I queue solo for AV as I'm rarely doing it for honour after the first week of an expansion I always encourage as many people as possible to defend Balinda. It usually garners enough support to ensure theres enough horde ressing down south to create some friction. Try it, see if it works on NA servers (you're NA right?)

Yup, NA realm.

[Korgoth]

There goes this debate... Let me chime in..
When I do AV on my horde toons, this is what I have on winning statistics..
1. Gotta have tanks.... For some weird reason, times and again, standing outside the boss room with no tanks on horde side..
2. If you start to back cap, you entered the loser street..
3. It's extremely helpful to switch to PVE gear for the boss fight itself.

It's just what it is.... Alliance grabs whats on the way, but essentially just zergs down to the boss...
And while a bunch of hordes are busy trying to back cap, the remaining force misses these forces to take on the boss..
Result..... Sound plays....... Alliance wins..

The BG objects became (unfortunately) almost useless and are only a hindering on the race to the kill.
Pretty much every win I get on horde side happens when there is no back capping, when the entire force zergs. Maybe a few stealthies that are able to slow down the zerg in the boss room with collaborate team work to wipe them...

The tank thing only comes into play if you can't get 3 towers down. 1 tower up and hes tankable by anyone really.

So backcapping to delay them getting to 1 tower is valuable, if they dont have the PVE geared tank and healers capable of taking 2 or more guards on at time. Which I believe is the majority of the time since AV on Alliance has become fresh 90 heaven.

[AeneasBK]

Yup, NA realm.

If you do try it expect to get some heat from the PvE zerg heros

[zephid]

Oh look, one of those people. You wouldn't have made this post if your fav bg was leading so get the f out.

Same goes for every idiot claiming it's nostalgia peeps who vote for it. It doesn't matter what reason take for the vote, the result is what matters.

But the result can be interpreted in different ways.

[Deleted]

So wait - PvE in PvP is BAD. While at the same time, you'll likely see that in WoD's PvP Zone AND Old PvP Items have actually been PvE Items bought for Honor? So PvP back in the day was utter shit, AV and Npc's on a Battleground are utter shit and usually every BG should just be a Circle with a Flag or an Objective in the middle, so everyone can play Gladiator for Santa's Cock while Winterveil is going on? Wow.. where does the "Stupid PvE"-train even end? I always hear PvPers walking around claiming "Our Job is the HARDEST, go kill your fucking Dragon", while at the same time they can't do shit in PvE. So easy, right? Doing 2,5k Arena but not being able to kill a stupid fucking PvE Boss?

[Korgoth]

That's some nice PVE'r trash talk. PVE is dancing, learning the steps and executing them properly, PVP is fighting! Unpredictable and dynamic!

AV is more like dancing, step step step to the boss, twirl twirl twirl, and take your bow. The PVE elements in it now are really just running to the end standing around then killing a raid boss. They used to be a lot less predictable, they required time investment and killing of hundreds of players for resources. Its far different.

And yeah I'd remove all NPCs from AV. I think in its current form it would function better as a reverse AB, where you start with 2000 resources and lose 500 for every tower burned, and 1 for every player death.

[Deleted]

AV is great. Force turtle. Kill PvE players.

[Darkhallows]

Anyone who plays Alliance should love AV and IoC, because they're the only ones we win reliably.

I find IoC enjoyable, but still miss Classic AV. 700 HKs in a single round on my Hunter back then is not something I'd soon forget. So much fun. (Although alot of it was spent turtling in Dun Baldar, but hey.)

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

That's some nice PVE'r trash talk. PVE is dancing, learning the steps and executing them properly, PVP is fighting! Unpredictable and dynamic!

AV is more like dancing, step step step to the boss, twirl twirl twirl, and take your bow. The PVE elements in it now are really just running to the end standing around then killing a raid boss. They used to be a lot less predictable, they required time investment and killing of hundreds of players for resources. Its far different.

And yeah I'd remove all NPCs from AV. I think in its current form it would function better as a reverse AB, where you start with 2000 resources and lose 500 for every tower burned, and 1 for every player death.

This is false, your objective is to kill your enemies commander first. Somehow this has turned into a race and nothing else, but that really isn't the fault of the Alliance at all. Without your opponent there, the bosses would be a joke. The challenge used to be pushing through your enemy and getting to his boss, or flag, or or node, or whatever. Drek'Thar is really just a node that punches you back.