Originally Posted by
HolyDKPriest
As per topic, whilst the BG changes seem good, and may get a few people back in. There are a few questions left answered. As it stands, the population overall between both factions are close to equal (or Alliance slightly having more people, thanks to PVE servers).
The PVP participation between Horde and Alliance is another story, since a vast majority of PVP-focused players faction transferred to Horde, along with X-realm Dungeons and WG balance, Horde outnumber Alliance on a vast majority of PVP servers and battlegroups. A lot of off-peak matches currently start lopsided in favor of Horde, not to mention longer queue time as Horde on most battlegroups, whilst Alliance has instant queues (yet start outnumbered in over half the matches).
Blizzard did do the "Full Queue" requirements in 3.3, but due to large amounts of Horde QQ over at the WoW forums, it was quietly reverted back, thus lopsided starts returned on some battlegroups, mostly in favor of Horde. The first question would be;
1. Will the random BG finder be similar to the X-realm Heroic tools, where it enforces equal starts like the X-Realm Heroics LFD does, thus ending imba starts (This may increase Queue times for Horde on most battlegroups), but still?
Faction Transfers, X-Realm Heroics and WG balance has already done the damage to what is left of the Alliance PVPing population, with many players going elsewhere to farm/have fun getting PVP gear/honor through other avenues, such as heroics, or x-realm Premades. so the second question;
2. What can be done to bring 'dillusioned' Alliance players back to the BGs (at least on the US realms)?
Edit: I do noticed that HKs are being increased on kills. The final question on that one, is that only going to encourage more road/mid field fighting? (unless if objective honor were increased significantly)