For those who play Horde or otherwise aren't aware, this has been in place for quite awhile;
I know this might be a sour subject, but my initial reaction to seeing this on my Alliance toon was to just laugh really hard. Ever since templates in unranked BGs, it just seems like Alliance winrate has reached an all time low. Yes, I know it's possible for Alliance to win, and I know that there may be posts below of people saying anecdotes about how they went fucking 8-0 or whatever, to which I'll say this: The winrate of Alliance of BGs has always been historically low (except for IoC and AV), but I frankly haven't seen any stats since Legion's release. Yes this is anecdotal but throughout the many years I've played (except for WoD I guess), My Alliance wins do often feel like flukes and many of my victories on Alliance I have to play my absolute fucking HEART out.
Are you guys really comfortable with this Enlistment Bonus fix? It doesn't seem to address a possibly more major flaw that Alliance might just be unbalanced? The Human racial has always been a topic of debate, but since its nerfs and with the addition to Honor Talents, the orc racial is arguably better. Aside from this, there was a rather significant buff to Horde Racials in WoD due to their lack of popularity that doesn't seem to have been reverted after the Human racial nerf, which I believe was the major reason that we saw so much Alliance PvP in WoD.
Look, I don't think that Horde Racials are all that important in unranked battlegrounds obviously, but I just want people to set aside their ego and admit that there is a problem with Alliance in BGs. The Enlistment Bonus is classic band-aid fix but it also implies to me that Blizzard may have accepted the nature that Alliance players may simply be more predisposed to being simply worse at PvP and I'm not as inclined to make such a wide generalization.
So yeah, I'm curious to know what you guys think, and I'm wildly off base or haven't considered other things, I'm curious to know.
Source for disparate winrates: http://wow-stats.com/bgwr01.html (but really you could just google anything)