You MUST get Ulf to AV level. He wont stop complaining about how Alliance looses WSG and AB.
It's not so much that the Alliance loses WSG and AB, it's more that most Alliance players have no idea how to work as a team.
For example: I had grabbed the flag in WSG and ran it all the way back to our base. The Horde had grabbed our flag and was stashing it in their base. Everyone in my base ran to find the enemy flag carrier. I spent the next
two minutes (120 seconds) telling my "teammates" that no one was defending me, the flag carrier. During that time, no one turned around to come back to our base. Someone even had the audacity to say, "shut up, we're not losing yet" while three Horde were pounding on my face. Needless to say, the five Horde (two more arrived during the face-pounding) killed me, returned the flag, and allowed the enemy flag carrier to cap.
To be fair, though, that same day I participated in two AB sessions with competent teams. One team won AB, the other lost--but made a solid effort. Playing on a solid team and losing to a skilled opposing team is one thing. Playing on a team of Alliance fanboys who treat WSG and AB like Quake 3 Team Deathmatch and getting steamrolled by a competent Horde opposing team is something else entirely.
Do I want to play in AV? Most certainly. I just don't believe it's worth the hours upon hours of questing, instance PuGs, grinding, and farming. Sure, I could go at level 51, but why? To get smeared by level 60 Horde in tier 2 armor? No thanks.
And to hit level 60, I would undoutedly have to play in instance PuGs. My final instance runs in ZF before making my way to the battlegrounds were some of the
worst experiences I've ever had during gaming (and that includes really, really bad Counter-Strike matches). If I hadn't geared and re-spec'd for PvP, I probably would have shelved Ulfbrikt altogether or even quit playing as Alliance after those ZF runs.
There's also the time factor. My schedule no longer allows for long periods of time playing WoW. While I'm interested in Maraudon, Sunken Temple, and Blackrock Depths, I'm just not willing to sit in front of the computer for three or more hours straight to run an instance.
Blizzard doesn't leave the reasonable casual player many options at 48, so I decided to stop leveling with Ulfbrikt and
play the game the way I enjoy it. Yes, I'm frustrated by the common incompetence in WSG and AB, but at least a battleground with poor players doesn't last four hours.
I think the more reasonable solution would be for me to stop complaining in guild chat (which, I admit, is difficult to do) rather than level Ulfbrikt to 51. I apologize to those who endured my complaints, and will try my best to not complain during BGs from now on.
EDIT: Another option is to pre-form groups with members of Stonemaul's PvP guilds. I plan on chatting with other 40-49 Stonemaul Alliance players to ask if they would invite me to pre-form AB and WSG groups.
And just for the record, I have every intention of reaching AV some day...on Cenarius, with Yiska.
Ulfbrikt is for PvP.
Ulfbrikt is
geared for PvP.
Yiska is for questing and instances (and PvP).
I may roll an Orc Hunter on Cenarius if there's a "wave" of new character rolls in Mustard Seed Conspiracy, or if Elihu rolls a level 1 character after taking Koshi, his Warlock, to 60.
EDIT: See
motivational poster for my opinion of WoW's leveling treadmill. Tacked on to the end of the thread as to not bump it.
I'll be glad to send you a tell when I'm preparing to join WSG or AB.
