Just did my first epic battleground at max level and it was AV. I was excited as normally games are good when everyone is still a freshly dinged character and tend to go on for at least enough time to have a back and forth.
What a disappointment. The game was over in under 8 minutes. The top honorable kills was someone with 4.
The NPCs hit like wet noodles, they have the hitpoints of quest mobs and people went in with 2 towers still up and people in instance chat said they were in games where people went in with as little as one tower destroyed.
Never seen an expansion start with AV in such a sorry state.
Not at max level but if you can kill the av bosses with 2 towers up then av will go back to the zerg rush meta with the only benefit being that at least ally won’t lose as much which is kind of sad i prefer alterac valleys that actualy include pvp.
Yeah, saw Vann yell so thought I’d recall back to base to see what was going on and the game was over before the cast was even half way through. Not fun at all.
I personally like how epics are now and would love for them to stay that way. If a team doesn’t want it to be over in 8 minutes, they can force a turtle to make it last 40 minutes. Also keep in mind AV used to be a 2 tower kill end boss game for a long time. At least in IoC hangar isn’t the only way to win anymore.
Also Horde ques have been 10-15 minutes while all of BFA they were 25-30 minutes…
Good thing this is only your opinion. I love epics bgs but don’t like them being an hour long. Epic bgs are for me and I’m getting exactly what I want right now (:
We dropped Drek in about 10 seconds last AV I was in.
Because of the chokepoint at Ice Wing bunker, and the location of the GY there, the only way Alliance can reliably win this map is to rush. SHB, Balinda (not like anyone kills her now), and IWB are all easier to get to en masse and tougher to defend.
It is a shame that this once glorious, 3 day fights map, has been turned into a PvE event.
I understand some people may like it this way. The fact of the matter is it goes against the design intention to have matches that are over in a few minutes (and even if Horde queues are 10-15 minutes, which I would put down to there being more players right now rather than any changes, the games are still over in less time).
Battlegrounds should not be over in less time than it takes to queue for them, and Alterac Valley should not be able to be completed with towers remaining.