AV is bugged for alliance

[Raremob-skeram]

They don’t win ever. Halfway thru revered. Not one win.

[Runrunrun-sulfuras]

not bugged. they just don’t care.

[Igankyou-fairbanks]

Maybe Alliance should just get good

[Zaolat-heartseeker]

You guys were kicking a lot of horde butt on AV weekend! But I do hear you, it seems with the Druid bug that many just want rep, and let their other team mates down…

[Localoid-faerlina]

They recently fixed this bug.

@Kaivax

Alterac Valley Updates
This patch includes many bugfixes for issues found in the 1.12 version of World of Warcraft. These were issues that were clearly unintended by the design of the time, and are now fixed:

• Terrain exploits
  • You can no longer climb the waterfall and enter the Frostwolf base near the Relief Hut.
  • You can no longer climb the cliff and enter Dun Baldar near the Aid Station.
  • You can no longer bypass Icewing Bunker.
• Reputation inconsistencies between Alliance and Horde
  • Alliance now always receive Reputation and Honor for defeating Captain Galvangar, regardless of whether Captain Balinda Stonehearth is alive.
  • Developers’ notes: This now correctly mirrors the Horde behavior, which grants them Reputation and Honor for defeating Captain Balinda Stonehearth, regardless of Galvangar’s status.
  • Alliance Druids can no longer have their actions disrupted by talking to them.
  • Developers’ notes: This now correctly mirrors the behavior of the Horde Elementalists, who were already just as steadfast in executing their intended actions.
• Exploits for defeating the enemy general.
  • The Horde War Masters can no longer be kited far enough to allow General Drek’thar to be engaged and defeated alone.
  • The Alliance Prospector can no longer be tricked into pulling General Vandar Stormpike out of the bunker so that he can be defeated alone.
  • Developers’ notes: As always, our intention is to accurately represent the 1.12 design intent of the game, and these bugs are clear examples of behaviors that were never intended.

Alliance does in fact have an incentive to push now. This is why their winrate is above 0% now. On my alliance warrior i got to exalted 999/1000 before this patch without a single win. Because ppl were only farming rep and didn’t care about pushing IBGY, or had less than 10 ppl defend IBGY, and got wiped, as everyone else was farming SHGY.

This is now a purely “GET GUD” problem, with two minor disadvantages being

1. Alliance gets to IBGY later than horde can get to SHGY.
2. It’s harder to slip past SHGY after horde gets it, than it is to slip through IBGY after alliance gets it. That said, if there’s over 10 players at these graveyards, it doesn’t matter, you’re not getting through.

That said, the map is asymmetric, so i’m sure there are counteradvantages on alliance side which are less obvious. If anything, 4min queue(would be instant but i’m sure blizzard is throttling it artificially) is still better than 42-3hr queue.