The good alliance player are honor capped right now. The rest prolly got bored of getting stomped by horde sweaties. Great window to take a shower though.
Not my experience. Iām not a ranked PVPer and never was so maybe my opinion isnāt the best, but Iāve seen all classes demonstrate the ability to survive in combat. The danger is far greater. Mage Frost Novas 15 players and does one Cone of Cold, 4 of those players die from crits. Thatās good. It requires situational awareness to use your defense CDs, movement abilities in those moments. Personally, even as a Mage who can basically get 2-shot by another Mage, Iām loving it.
Winning is better honor overall, but not if it takes 2 hours. Thatās why you donāt see the strats you were talking about, and why we donāt see the 19 hour AVās we saw in vanilla. Itās better to lose 5 games an hour with around 1200-1500 honor each, than win a 2 hour game worth 6-8k with instant queues.
Itās obviously much different for horde since they have close to 2 hour queues in AV. They try to maximize honor earned in a match because it might be the only one they play that night.