Normal Pug AV strat for Classic (not Vanilla) for Alliance seems to be…
IGNORE EVERYTHING, ZERG DREK.
The following need to happen in order for this to work
Horde have to not cut the raid in half by flanking the most obvious and predictable lines of movement.
Horde have to not backcap or participate in PvP.
Alliance need to have 2 tanks that know what to do and at least 2 healers that have enough mana to keep tanks up at RH / FW Keep.
There needs to be enough Alliance DPS to actually kill this stuff.
Horde need to not attack Alliance while these WMs are being attacked.
Horde need to not attack Alliance while Drek is being attacked.
Given the best case scenario (which still happens kinda often) we have…
Reputation gained by Alliance in the best case scenario of this strat
That’s 513 rep including the mark turnin.
The worst case scenario for the current Reputation gained by Horde is…
Killing Belinda (+125 reputation)
So the WORST case scenario for horde is the following…
So Horde get MORE rep.
Now Honor of games of short duration will not include burned towers…
Alliance Honor
Horde Honor
So 3564 Honor vs 594 Honor - 605% higher Honor gain.https://imgur.com/a/ht2mcyh
You technically win but you lose in every way.
You get practically 0 honor as alliance with this garbage strat which means every alliance member running a GOOD AV strat will just annihilate the honor standings as the good strats average between 2700-4500 honor per match.
You get less REP on a win than Horde are getting on a loss. The very reason people are quantifying this garbage strat is REP which is still lower.
And this is the best case scenario and assuming that horde haven’t been min/maxing. Minmaxing AV involves taking advantage of the mindlessly predictable strategy of running straight to drek by cutting off the 60% mounted players from the rest and backcapping everything to maximize end honor. And this will eventually result in win rates closer to 50% while still obtaining nothing for honor and getting less rep.
And that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that trying to improve or shift the meta results in the most toxic cancerous “YOU NEED TO KILL YOURSELF, EVERYONE REPORT THIS GUY” type of responses. And this is even after spending many hours in classic and COUNTLESS hours in Vanilla using the Galv —> Drek strat (killing LTs/Commanders) on the way and winning consistently in 6-10 minutes.
TLDR - Cognitive dissonance and frustration whenever I play random games. Maybe the garbage strats will end after all these PvE realms get their exalted AV rewards in the easiest Exalted AV grind in Vanilla’s history.
all credit to the original OP who did the Math.
Fast Ques are a blessing and a curse
you get to have more readily available PvP Entertainment
you in theory have quicker access to the Rep Rewards (as posted above this is actually not the case with the alliance strat in AV)
The Con however is that with instant ques you need to compete against fellow Alliance who also have instant ques making you a victim of your own success in a way, lets take for example OCE horde who have 8hr+ WSGs and 2-4+hr AV ques, they only need to do 2 games a day to keep with the pack as Horde are simply unable to farm up 2.2million honor in a week like Faerlina Alliance are.
In terms of your Sanity the less honor you make is bad BUT the less honor your faction makes is really really really good as getting past rank 5 is simply not an enjoyable task at this point unless you enjoy 6-7 hrs straight of BGs 7 days a week, I dont imagine there is anything even IRL that you would enjoy if you had to do it for 7 hrs everyday without a break.