There is now a ton of captains walking around capped at level 7 beause you only need 1 tallar event. Majority of those folks now have no reason to queue.
This. Valor used to be hard. It used to take TIME, back in the day. And not just because my armor sucked back then.
I used to go to soo many battlefields. Temples, Crystalline caves... winning didn't mean an instant rank. Now? We have surge days, double valor, valor elixirs for gold/diamonds, valor elixirs for free (altar of the valorous, etc.), valor extracts, extra valor for premium account, valor obelisks... did I miss anything? Ugghhhhhh.
These days, you can get a rank in a single WEEKEND. And they're making it even EASIER (extra valor for premium account was added recently.) And then everyone gets ranks, and BF's die. hooray.
Valor is too damn easy!
The weaker players probably got creamed to hard that they off on their mandatory sulking before being convinced to try again.
Well, that's no one's fault but their own. They choose to suck.
If all this has been implemented to make it easier for hopeless noobwads to get valor easier, it's not working. If twits find it too mentally challenging to get 3-4 free buffs (warlord, elder, rainbow, etc.) obviously they'd find it too mentally challenging to drink a valor elixir or build a valor obelisk (which they do.) Seen some of those geniuses in talaar. No buffs, no Giants, even. Zero effort. You can't help the hopeless.