I was on admittedly a little early this morning, 6am before work, but there was literally 1 AV going even with cross realm and the queue was 3 hrs 45 min
Never too late to swap!
Think about it - instead of wasting hours in queue, spend that time leveling up an ally to 60.
You’re already missing out on half of the game.
The horde tunnel was originally moved up because Alliance overwhelmingly dominated av in vanilla, and went on to dominate it for YEARS of retail’s time line. Your faction’s problem had nothing to do with the tunnel, and everything to do with your faction just being defeatist at AV.
It’s also not the only bg to have skewed win /loss ratios… Hilariously one of the most “imbalanced” maps in the game’s history from a faction win /loss perspective was actually Strand of the Ancients (dramatically favoring horde in win/loss), despite the fact that the starting position was random, and both teams had to play the map from both sides.
TL: DR you alliance don’t lose av because it’s imbalanced. You don’t even lose an because you guys are bad. You lose av because your team just rolls over and accepts the losses every time. Your faction literally dominated that bg for a full decade with the map exactly how it is right now.
TLDR - I still think Horde and Alliance play style is the same as it was back in 2006.
Scorch earth was discovered in TBC. Alliance boycotted the map and got the cave pushed back. The version of the map where the Horde cave made sense was a completely different version then what we have now.
Pretty sure it was moved up(if it was moved up) before they completely revamped the map and cut out like 1/3 of it as well as a bunch of other changes they like to ignore when making that claim.