Epic BGs suffer from a lot of things. No one here is necessarily “wrong, or right”.
There are examples listed in this thread where players have encountered game bugs / errors, pacing issues, zone issues, imbalance issues, etc… These issues are what we all agree should be considered by the developers, and systems engineers for the Epic BG content; to make them better for everyone.
Yes, I think the Alliance have a hard time at the moment, but it’s not a clear reason. However, something that is plaguing the content more than anything for both sides is poor quality game development. There are still game breaking bugs in Epic BGs.
For example, sometimes when a player gets out of a Demolisher in the Epic BG Wintergrasp they are disconnected from the game. This will also happen in tanks / vehicles in the Epic BG Isle of Conquest. The DC bug will also happen when a player moves around from seat, to seat in a tank in those Epic BGs. Another issue is a graphic UI issue in the Epic BG Wintergrasp, there is still a “Reinforcements bar” at the top of the player’s screen that shows 300 Reinforcements for Alliance, and 300 Reinforcements for the Horde. Which would kind of be cool if it worked. However the counter does not work, nor does the functionality. The Reinforcements bars for both the Alliance, and Horde stay at 300 / 300 even though players, and NPCs in the Epic BG Wintergrasp have died. Thus, the game mechanic is clearly broken. If these features were developed by a student of mine (I teach programming) they would ultimately fail the class if they were not addressed (either fix them, or take out the broken features until they are fixed).
Like many others I have submitted bug report, after bug report. It’s been almost two years now, and the bugs still persist. Disconnecting bugs, UI / UX bugs and issues, sound errors, game errors / crashes, latency issues (laggy when 40 vs 40 on the game server - not the users client - except the new 25 player Ashran, that works fine now), etc…, etc…
Epic Battlegrounds have so much untapped potential it’s crazy! I for one just wish the teams at Blizzard would continue to test, and work on them like they do with the PvE dungeons, and PvE raids in the game. I’m sure the encounter team at Blizzard would have a field day fixing Epic BGs if they played them like we all do (I’m sure most of us here have played over 100+ Epic BGs).
Either way, I’ve decided to come back to Epic Battlegrounds these last few months (Alliance mainly) to farm Honor levels, and because even though the Epic BG content is rather rough, and hard to play due to this, or that I still find joy in them that I do not get from the other types of content in the game.
Cheers, and I hope to see you all on the battlefields! ![:crossed_swords: :crossed_swords:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/crossed_swords.png?v=9)