Vanilla wsg sucks. Spend 3/4 of every game trying to convince people to actually cross mid so more than 1-2 people are actually going for efc, with 3-4 people around him. That and chasing terrain exploiting druids is awful, without competent players to cut off escape routes/jumps. You don’t get that in pugs.
AV isn’t pvp, and forcing people to do basically do only av to rank makes people hate that place and never go back.
AB (the only good bg) barely even pops on ab holiday. Also Alliance seemingly don’t try there (like 80%+ of the ABs for anni have been horde EASILY 3-5 capping… often 4-5capping) I know/admit the map has a horde bias, but it shouldn’t be that statistically significant.
I would be spending 4+ hours a day in bgs if they where common, even after capping my second toon… casual bgs is strangely one of my favorite activities in wow as a whole (to the point where I solo grinded out prestige 500 mount 6 months before legion ended)… it just doesn’t exist on Anni realms in any fun or meanginful way.
Hell, I’d be ranking at least 3 more toons right now if BGs where common and if the ranking meta had any variety outside of “sit in av” (also if we had it confirmed that we could take those toons to era, since I have almost no interest in tbc).
Instead, I’m basically raid logging Anni, and leveling toons for mop.
But its much more satisfying to get rage whispers killing all the pve kids that were outgearing people in the past. Now they get to see how bad in pvp they really are and its super fun
Because I tried uninstalling and reinstalling my game as my WoW Classic Era install size was 70gb. My install size is now 5gb but I forgot to back the folder that stores AddOn data and I’ve lost all my configurations. Like my bad, but also… smol indie company I guess.
Either way, I just don’t have the motivation to fix it right now, so maybe I’ll see you next week. That or you play on Anniversary and I’ll never see you , lol.
Anyway, it’s no secret that PvP participation drops after R14. This should surprise nobody… a 20+ year old reward track for three BGs. I played a lot of PvP back in Vanilla (without even getting R14 at that), but I still didn’t play it all day. The underlying gameplay of non-AV BGs is just not that fun unless you’re actively grinding for rep and AV, the best BG this game has ever shipped in any incarnation, is entirely tarnished by the current meta.