AV Club

I returned to retail so I could experience "Classic Alterac Valley", which I remember as being a total slog. Spoiler: it still is. Everything is scaled to level 60, so all of the mobs are actually threatening when encountered in groups. There's no reinforcements, so it goes on back and forth until one side trounces the other... but wait, there's more.

The 15th Anniversary prize you get is another mount, an Alterac Ram of some sort, isn't for actually winning an AV match. You get it for earning 200 timewalking badges by doing quests in the battleground. As a consequence, you have two factions on your own team: the people trying to win the battle and the people who are just trying to earn tokens to get their mount. It's hell.

Contrary to what people say, AV is very Alliance-winnable. All total I played through 5 games to earn my 200 badges and we won three of them.


It CAN be done!

I also took the time to play through "the thrilling end to the War Campaign", which was delivered in patch 8.2.5. I wish I hadn't bothered. Start to finish it's about 30 minutes with a handful of busywork quests and cutscenes that show what is derisively being called Siege of Orgrimmar 2.0.

It's seriously bad.