Playing BGs as alliance feels like a waste of time

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I have mixed feelings on this.

I agree with the argument that rewarding people for losing removes the incentive to play properly or make an effort to win.

At the same time I find the gear rewards for winning problematic since it rewards the side that are already more successful with gear upgrades amplifying the existing imbalance.

Personally I would like to see conquest only awarded for wins, but with the rewards scaled to reflect your win loss ratio, so if you are on the side that is generally at a disadvantage then the reward for winning each game ends up larger to reflect how much time you have to put in to get that win.

Moving on to the claims of it being 50/50, in my experience the win rates do vary a lot by time of day. Some times of the day/week horde are very dominant and its extremely hard to get wins. At other times it can be relatively even, or in the case of epic BGs favour alliance.
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LOL It's so bad now I just gave up on PvP altogether ... the system and the game need a major overhaul with racials removed completely in both PvP and PvE they aren't needed
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Honestly Alliance have it good for random bgs. You get minute queues max and still have a roughly even chance to win (changing by time of day/ luck of group). Horde have to deal with easily 7+ minute queues for regular bgs, and over 10 for Epic bgs. Then if you lose you basically wasted half an hour, while with the Alliance you can grind bgs real easy.

This comes from a guy who played alot of random bgs near the end of Legion as Alliance in Legion and uses Mercenary right now.
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10/30/2018 08:15 PMPosted by Believed
The winning and losing team should get the same number of conquest points. Don't BS me saying it won't encourage people to play because people will want to win regardless. The current system is what creates toxic environment where people give up fast and AFK guaranteeing a loss just so they can go onto the next queue.


Same rewards for winning or losing. I want to see those fights, both teams going AFK.
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sorry whither you win or lose there should some reward for those who actually do objectives. so tired of winning and its usually just three of us doing it. rets fighting in the middle. telling us we playing wrong to boot. Plus alliance do not want to try to get object. why get orbs were just going to die mentality has to go.
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10/31/2018 11:06 PMPosted by Bourdeau
Honestly Alliance have it good for random bgs. You get minute queues max and still have a roughly even chance to win (changing by time of day/ luck of group). Horde have to deal with easily 7+ minute queues for regular bgs, and over 10 for Epic bgs. Then if you lose you basically wasted half an hour, while with the Alliance you can grind bgs real easy.

This comes from a guy who played alot of random bgs near the end of Legion as Alliance in Legion and uses Mercenary right now.


It depends on realm, but my alliance has the same queue times as your horde you state.
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News flash, playing alliance IS a waste of time. Period. Devs only care about horde, and develop content for Horde. Alliance content is rushed and crappy and literally no thought and just copy/ paste old artifacts.
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If you think queuing as alliance sucks, Twink!

A couple weeks ago someone made a complaint thread about twinks in BGs again. I didn't even know they weren't placing twinks in regular queues again. I quick slapped together a 29 with OK AH gear and crafted stuff because I was curious.

I'm 9-1 in my first 10 games...lol
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conquest isn’t a currency to BUY anything…you get whatever you get. you get gear from losing arena’s you don’t get squat from losing a BG…literally nothing unless you lose by a small margin you’ll get a mark of honor maybe a swiftness potion…woooooo.