That being said, the Alliance is pathetic.

When I was with the Alliance on Kilrogg, I thought that maybe it was just a fluke of that server. After spending some time in Warsong Gulch, I became informally associated with some top-notch people who would send me invites when they didn’t have enough regulars to fill out the roster. All-in-all, I would say there were two such groups on Kilrogg, though they never really had official membership and sometimes shared members. The thing is, there were at least five groups on the Horde side of equal ability.

Anyway, I play on Crushridge and Kil’jaden now, both Horde, and I can now say, it’s not just Kilrogg. On Crushridge, I’m halfway to Honored with Warsong Gulch, and I have lost exactly TWO games. So that’s something like 48 wins, 2 losses. Some nights, we have deliberately let the Alliance score a flag cap just because we don’t want to demoralize them – after all, if they don’t get back in the queue, we’re screwed.

In world PvP (Crushridge and Kil’jaden are PvP servers), I’ve never lost a one-on-one fight to an Alliance player who was at or below my level. Of course, I’ve never been attacked one-on-one by an Alliance player who was at or below my level, either. Either they attack weaker players, or they gang up in giant gank squads. Always. At level 31, my hunter got ganked in Stranglethorn by a 34 rogue. I started using the ‘freeze trap->flare while you quest’ method to reverse gank him; after I killed him twice, he came back with a 36 (!) rogue and they killed me together. I teamed up with a 32 hunter, and the next time those rogues came, we shipped them back to Darnassus in a box. And again. And again. And then they come back with a level ?? rogue and wipe us out, with plenty of /spit to go around. Wow. What studs. The best part is, I can totally imagine them on /1 whining “waaaahh someone come help this f4gg0t asshole hunter is camping me”.

Kil’jaden works pretty much the same way. A five-man gank squad, levels 30-36, attacks my four-man party, levels 24-30, and we beat them. Freaking sad. And two minutes later, you guessed it, level ?? rogue is on us. And we even made her drink a potion before we died.

So why does the Alliance blow goats? Does the Alliance turn players into bad PvPers? Are bad PvPers naturally drawn to the Alliance? On servers where Horde outnumbers the Alliance, is it the other way around? I don’t know, but I am interested in finding out.

Please help, Blizzard!

Based on ideas from discussing this around the office, I’ve decided there should be an item that has some chance of dealing 100 times the level difference between you and the attacking character (if difference greater than 10) every 3 seconds over 15 seconds.

Basically you get attacked and even if they kill you in one or two hits they should get hit with a big surprise.

So if any GM’s out there are reading this, [Newb’s Revenge] should be in the next revision.