Pre xBG, besides premades there would be only be a handful of Alliance that ever did AB or WSG. Horde always lost AB/WSG unless you managed get lucky. However, we always won AV.

Now, it's pretty much flipped. We usually win AB/WSG and lose AV. I don't mind that much, anything is preferable to 2 hour queues and losing in 5 minutes. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I'm in an 'off' timezone too, so it's really great for me.

50k honour is really not that much for three hours. It isn't a viable strategy for ranking up. Of course, it doesn't stop people from doing it anyway just to be jerks, but I don't see it becoming widespread.

In some ways I like it - i.e. shorter queue times, but I do miss seeing the Horde side of my own server more. Not that there's much left of it, most of the raiding guilds have collapsed/transfered, but it's still nice to see those names you know oh-so-well and know that you're going to have a good and tough matchup. We used to have a major cross guild Alliance CP team and a major Horde one and WSG games between the two would last 2 hours+... but sadly those days are gone and most of the people who want their GM gear have it now, so "pro" CP teams are few and far between.

Deathwing probably has the most geared Alliance raiding guilds in BG10 and it's usually pretty sad who we end up running against. Greens/Blues/T1 doesn't fare well against BWL/T3+ gear. In all the AB matches I've played, I've only seen a single guild premade with BWL+ gear, the majority being mid/end MC geared. For fun one night we made a 15 hunter AB group with a good portion of the best geared hunters from DW (T3 2-6/8's) and didn't lose a single time to any group, including the above mentioned guild premade with BWL+ gear.

It was actually somewhat sad. :( 5-0's while amusing, are kind of dull after the 20th one while you watch the queue climb from 2 minutes to over 15. (What, nobody wants 15 hunters dancing at your graveyard with flares and traps, waiting for you to res while the 5-0 resource count ticks away?) It'd be interesting if they had a queue option to play only against premades/guild groups/serious groups and the like ... but then again it could just be my tired brain rambling on.

It’s my firm belief that number is 1. I normally pvp on a t1/t2 geared alt warlock. Basically make it my mission to make sure towers/gy’s are capped and stay capped, and or that the alliance towers are taken back. I find it makes the wins much quicker and slows the horde down immensely. The only time I have failed at it and indeed the horde had a massive turn around and won was when a Horde rank 13 shaman did exactly the same thing back to me and killed me 1v1 something like 7-8 times. I also am repping up a mid 50's hunter. All I can do is hide in their zerg and pump out damage, typically the games on my hunter are 20 mins longer.

As for playing vs. Organised groups different Battle groups I guess. BG9 especially at the times I play 50% of the horde teams are organised. That doesn’t necessarily mean you will play them ,we had a very amusing game recently where we got a “Khaz†team, then “Bart†, then after 20 seconds of 10 vs 0 the same “Bart†team then finally a single spotter from the 1st “Khaz†team who we danced with while the 3rd flag was run back. But in general Blackrock/Proudmoore teams always stay and are a mix of t2+

Cross-server AV is mostly bleh for the most part. I normally just hang around Stonehearth and just keep fighting a retreating action until I hit the bridge/aid station and hope that the offensive force can grow brains big enough to fight their way to Drek'thar.

Nothing quite like mowing down a bunch of Horde in 2-3 shots with the help of Renataki's ... then suddenly feeling very targetted as you're sitting on top of the killing blows list by a good margin. X_x Although, it tends to get you healed a lot more once people realize that given heals, you can completely discourage most random PUGs from advancing too far. Big multi crits tend to do that.