wow Social Distancing in Alterac Valley

[Stan 5,018]

It seems that social distancing is now a thing in Alterac Valley, as more and more players are completing battleground objectives without engaging in PvP.

The first Alterac Valley end-screen comes from German servers, where the highest-ranked person scored 2 kills.

The same thing happened today with another battlegroup. The highest-ranked Hunter got an incredible 4 kills!

Have you experienced this phenomenon yourself?

Source: Reddit + Reddit

[Brutalis 165]

14 minutes ago, Stan said:

Have you experienced this phenomenon yourself?

Yes. Every time I play it, in fact. The optimum strategy now is to skip all towers save the two in the enemy base and just rush the last boss whilst hoping your team is quicker at it. It's very boring. The BG needs a rework. Maybe make Korrak's Revenge the standard AV?

[dirtside 3]

Not since vanilla, when the Horde and Alliance groups would rush past each other, ignore each other entirely, and try to burn their way to the boss as fast as possible.

[Lithari 194]

This is.....so stupid.

[Seksi 208]

I still tend to do PvP in my AVs by actively trying to delay the first two tower takedowns as much as possible and often retaking them, thus causing the other faction to have a harder boss and lose the race 😛 

[darkgreenwax 409]

I feel like the only way to halt that is create a bottleneck at the exact point where both teams would intersect. Inevitably there is always one person who takes a potshot at someone and starts the brawl. 😏

[Raggedyman 5]

On 12/5/2020 at 10:30 PM, Brutalis said:

Yes. Every time I play it, in fact. The optimum strategy now is to skip all towers save the two in the enemy base and just rush the last boss whilst hoping your team is quicker at it. It's very boring. The BG needs a rework. Maybe make Korrak's Revenge the standard AV?

It certainly needs some updating, although I think having side missions count more towards victory would help as it would incentivise people doing them and also stopping the other side doing them.
Basically it's been in play for 8+ years, and as it's a "complicated" game format it's been optimised to hell so needs some serious reworking at a base level.