Why is frontline so awful and why is it not being fixed?

[Avenger]

I prefer full alliance because the skill level seems to average out more and you can potentially grab more of the map and also hit more enemies with AoE.

That being said, how well it goes depends on how experienced your overall alliance is, whether you have enough tanks and healers, whether they (and dps) do their job and watch the map, whether someone does good callouts, whether people actually follow them, and a lot of dumb luck in the form of RNG node spawns and whether the other teams (and yours) are trying to win or fighting for third place.

3-way matches by their very nature are also kind of "vote who wins" contests. So you can play well as a team and still lose if the other teams consistently gang up on you.

All in all I am OK with where frontline is at. I want shatter and seal rock to come back so I can get those mounts also.

For targeting I find macros using /targetenemy, <tt> and <1> to be useful. I basically do no damage as BLM playing on controller without some target macro help. I kind of wish PvP
BLM had more area (rather than enemy) targeted AoE.