Well its the tone i got from it anyway
Well, i was just trying to be constructive for this person. I threw out Jugs name bc she made the post, but there are alot of btags in there that do Ebgs, he/she can group with those people.
Yep, back in Legion on my Horde char I had a significant uptick in AV wins when I started trying to convince the team to defend Galv and/or TP/IBT at the start of the game. Before that the entire Horde team would mindlessly zerg north and inevitably lose.
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When reinforcements were so low (for many years), defending IB was not very important. With the recent changes, it made a lot more sense to stop the Allies at IB. Then Horde started wining more often.
Which of course upset Blizzard, so they gave the alliance one of the few map changes ever to AV to give them an advantage. So basically, Horde using IB choke to win more = blizzard needing to give the alliance a buff via the map, lol.
This implies that the change actually gives Alliance players an advantage. It doesnât, because Stonehearth is still as open as it was before - the graveyard is just slightly harder to assault.
I know youâll reply with âlol ib chokeâ but it really doesnât take a rocket scientist to work out that a single small path that can protect every single asset - which is a requirement for a win - is vastly superior to one that sacrifices 40% reinforcements (a win condition) to use and has multiple entrances.
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A word of advice for all in this thread,
Doesnât pay to argue with a lunkhead.
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Maybe they should just remove the Alliance, then thereâd be no imbalance or âbad factionâ.
âStonehearth is still as open as it was beforeâ â Right. Because having the highground and forcing Horde to run up a narrow path that is inaccessible until you run past the graveyard has no defensive advantages⌠/end sarcasm
You donât have to run past the graveyard; you can come up the other way. Or you can skip that graveyard entirely and go straight to Stormpike.
The only time youâre âforcedâ to run past the graveyard is if youâre coming from Stonehearth Bunker, and the only people who have to do that are Alliance trying to run a turtle defense, so the change may actually hurt the Aliance more than it helps.
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Iâve lost twice as Alliance in there while being a dirty underhanded merc.
I won all AV I was in todayâŚas horde.
can i get a selfire with you?
People will just level their alts as alliance and then switch. ![:wink:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")
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Win-win for Blizzard
AV and IOC were the two bgâs Alliance won consistently. All other bgâs were horde dominated for the most part. Silvershard Mines, Deepwind, AB, WSG, EOTS need I go on?
So you want to dominate it all totally, and alliance will just jump to horde because itâs horrible losing all the time. There has to be some incentive to get the faction balance back in play. You still have Merc I believe.
Also a reminder itâs BG bonus week. Games are flooded with people who arenât comfortable with this area of the game.
So youâll end up seeing bigger packs of people charging one thing, as unsure people just roll with the group.
Youâll see less smaller groups splitting off to do other important things, such as defending the keep or back-capping. Calls for help wonât be as effective, as newcomers will just wait for other people to go do it because theyâre not sure what it means.
I know a lot of people are frustrated, but this week in particular itâs always worse. For both factions.
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If Alliance was winning Alterac Valley consistently and Horde was âdominatingâ the others, wouldnât it make more sense to try to re-balance a battleground other than AV in Allianceâs favor?
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Iâm all for it. Bring it on lol.
LOL im pretty sure the main base choke for alliance is way better than any choke the horde have on the entire map. You literally have two bunkers facing a narrow bridge that the horde get barraged on the entire time. Not to mention you can push people off the bridge and force them to either die or take substantial amounts of damage. We wont even talk about how your main base spawn in above one of your main gys so if we cap it you can have ranged sit on top and kill respawners
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Do you even realize what the Alliance give up to defend the bridge?
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