wtf happenedFollow

I would say it's just bad luck or something. I believe I am correct in saying that there are groups of servers for cross realm, it's not just all of them, so only somebody from your couple of servers can tell you. I haven't found anything wrong with mine.

Agree with you there. When I do PUGs for BGs, which is 95% of the time, we lose 99% of those due to the cross server lack of communication and pre-mades. It's odd but cross server seems to have kicked the alliance *** into gear and horde *** out of gear. We used to spank ally in every single BG prior to this new option. Now, we lose more often than not. Some of it is because of folks like myself who are still learning but a large portion of the losses are due to the "individual groups" that want to do their own thing instead of work as a team. If you've ever played SWG pre-CU, you will know what kind of group I refer to.

In our server group, the horde is still winning at least 80% of the time. We can even beat premade groups unless we have lowbies. The biggest change I see is that more lowbies are trying to level up in battle grounds and making us lose. A couple of lowbies won't hurt, but statistically you will get groups that are mostly lowbies every once in a while and you get your rear kicked.

I have noticed a resurgence in quality Alliance characters. My suspicion is that some of these are horde people who have made twinks to beat up on the horde. I have a 19 hunter twink that I play when I am bored. I find it hard to believe that lousy alliance players have become motivated to do better. Those people reroll horde. ;)

I just made exalted in Warsong and Arathi over Thanksgiving with my 49 Undead priest. I estimate that we won in Warsong 80% and Arathi 90% of the time. I basically played levels 18, 19, 28, 29, 36-39, and 47-49 exclusively in battlegrounds. I am on the Dentarg server.

I spent so much time in battlegrounds that I got to know the other hardcore players and we effectively became a "premade" interserver group. There were about ten of us on all the time and we worked together and learned each other's play style.

In particular, there was a mage I spent many an hour with at the Gold Mine. The two of us could take on 4 and 5 alliance by good teamwork. There was also a rogue named Ruptures who would run the flag with me in Warsong a lot. Great memories! I am working on Alterac Valley now and making new friends there.