Yes, every time I see the alliance at the beginning at like 12 or 15 players, it’s one of these premades deciding not enough tanks or not enough healers. Then the alliance lose, badly. It’s top honor games for horde as we usually come out with max and they end up getting like 398 bonus honor, so it’s actually really good for us, but I feel bad for the alliance players who are often under 60 and on 60% speed mounts.
Now the premades are trialing. They’ll go to your realm on a level 1 and inspect your gear. If it’s not good enough you’re not getting in the premade. They might look at rank too, I’m not sure about that. They have always required 100% speed mounts. Basically, allies are going to start getting excluded from the premades making this happen even more with the “lesser” members of the faction.
These trials are because horde are “turtling” and in their opinion, ANY horde defense is “turtling” as PVP should NEVER happen in a battleground.
Anyway, we all know screwing over the alliance is perfectly fine with these people as they are all looking out for #1.
I’m very glad to be playing horde at this point. Within not too many weeks my friends and I will have the ranks we want and we can go on to having more fun in PVP grouping for WSG and eventually AB.