Why does battle high exist?

[JanVanding]

What is wrong with farming kills? It's PvP. It is a good thing you can win via multiple methods, it makes things far more interesting than if you were just restricted to one win condition.

Battle highs aren't some sort of instant win condition either, with a little bit of teamwork with your party you can deal with battle highs, it's not nearly as overpowered as some of you people make it seem. The thing is though if your party is getting farmed that had to have started before anyone had battle high, and battle high or not you never had a chance.

Several people have pointed out how ridiculously strong it is, 20-40% increase is a LOT, we're not talking 3-5% which is what I'd consider a fair increase.

The game mode is also objective based, if you're chasing for kills and completely ignoring the objective, that is not playing the mode, that's playing Team Deathmatch.

Edit: I also don't consider gank trains interesting, maybe it's the years of RvR in DaoC that killed all that kinda thing off for me, but nowhere does it specifically encourage you to "Go out and farm kills for Battle High/Frenzy to win", it's because the mechanic itself is busted that the gank train style even exists.