I’d be hesitant to call that “hold” - there are sometimes clears, and at times we have the lower part for a “while,” but I have yet to see Alliance hold BRM on Fairbanks (maybe it has happened - it’s not like I’m here actually 24/7 - I’m usually in a dungeon or elsewhere, when I am online - I was surprised at how freely I was able to wander around Wintergrasp today, when I went to finish my Ony Attunement, and Felwood wasn’t bad either, btw, which I found shocking considering what I was expecting).
Certainly, I think that people who would like to discuss the issues with large numbers of players dominating areas would have some content for conversation.
Whether that is a problem or even related to faction balance is not necessarily super obvious. Of course, we do see realms with great faction disparity, such as Heartseeker, and Stalagg, Skeram, Fairbanks, where it appears that faction imbalance is exacerbated by large population or the other way around.
In any case, I’ve been on Fairbanks for a little under 3 weeks, since rerolling:
When it comes specifically to the discussion of faction balance and its role in WPVP, and the enjoyment of WoW, there are a couple of questions I think are worth talking about upfront: