Alliance don’t really have common sense. They don’t adapt to strats well at all, and are quick to blame specific players on the team instead of fix glaring issues.
One such example of this is how the Alliance would rather continue forcing glaives/demos when 80% of the Horde team is on defense, and Hangar is practically undefended. Simply abandoning the strat and zerging Hangar would completely halt the Horde’s offensive pressure, AND force the Horde to bring the glaives/demos they would get into a poorly-defended position (on the east near quarry, no islet to defend there), because they would be forced to change to a new gate and abandon their current gate damage, which they obviously won’t do.
Instead, I watched the Alliance sit there and brawl with no vehicles up.
You would think that’d be the end of it? Nope. Next game, people DID go Hangar. But what did they do after capping Hangar? It SURE AS HELL wasn’t defend and kill glaives/demos. I watched THIRTY PEOPLE parachute into the Horde base and run bombs. THIRTY. We lost that game in an actual record time.
So yeah. Alliance lack common sense. They lack morale, too. I’ve seen entire teams cry about the first teamfight being lost in Ashran, only to take control and lead them to an easy win because they thought Ashran is like Wintergrasp and the first teamfight decides the entire game (hint, it doesn’t).
Gear can be an issue, yes. In fact, a lot of the time, it’s why the Alliance lose fights. But the biggest contributor to the reason why Alliance are actual garbage in epics is the overall competency of the team, and the fact they’ve been so hammered into a negativity-filled mindset that they refuse to listen to reasoning, and think every single game is an inevitable loss.
It’s gotten so bad that I’m willing to sit 30 minute queues to gear my 160-ilvl fox hunter instead of merc, because I simply don’t want to put up with the QQ and skill gaps.