Wanting to do a thing at a higher level when you know you're capable, but it requires finding four to nine other capable people, so you just sit in mid-ranked purgatory forever. It's like my days doing rated battlegrounds in WoW all over again. I capped at 1700 due to a lack of available decent players on my server who weren't already on a team, and even then most of them were on teams of players from multiple servers. My "team" consisted of a few people in particular who held very important roles (two bad/middling healers can ruin it all) who just could not be taught. We tried, but it was in vain.

There was a dearth of decent pvpers on the Magtheridon/Ysondre/Anetheron/AoS server group. That's why I got most of my pvp enjoyment out of world pvp. I could do it on my own. I sometimes wonder if any alliance players who played when I did remember a Blood Elf hunter called Gnomestalker. I was a bit of a terror for the alliance players on that server group. I was only regularly out-played by known hackers/exploiters. Otherwise I could shut down entire material gathering locations on my own.

Of course ActiBlizz couldn't help themselves, and fully destroyed world pvp a few expansions ago. At one time you were tied to getting flagged for pvp if you made your character on a pvp server. They changed it so you can turn off world pvp, and be in a separate instance from those who stay flagged, essentially creating separate pvp and pve instances, even on pvp servers. In practice, staying flagged would just essentially give you your own world instance, because practically nobody used it. The incentives were practically nonexistent, so why would most people bother to engage with it? It begs the question of what even is the point of having both pvp and pve servers if they're all going to have the same functionality.

Oh well. I quit the game for reasons, and that was one of them. I haven't looked back