Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

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Originally Posted by Chivalrous

5.2 really killed WoW for me. No new 5 mans and a ton of dailies just ruined it. 5.3 has interesting changes, but not enough to bring me back. I may just wait until 6.0

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Pretty much how I feel about it.

All my guys are 90 so just on ice until news comes out about shared group questing and interesting 5 man content like BRD.

I'm personally fine with no BG follow for the time I can arena just fine still and I actually enjoy leveling toons now because of it and PvE is still fun. Plus I normally cant bring my 3 toons into BG with my guildies since we got so many who want to xD

also how viable would 3 S.priest be in Dungeons as DPS?

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Originally Posted by Wait_what

also how viable would 3 S.priest be in Dungeons as DPS?

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This is neither the thread nor the forum for this question.

Open a new thread in the appropriate forum.

I have a Theory how Follow works on Battlegrounds. It is nothing with IWT.

I will test it and post a guide as soon as possible.

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Originally Posted by Grobi

Will you tell us how you handle movement now?
Do you use multimount and IWT?


And what do you do in combat situations (no mount)?


Or is this top secret? ^^

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There are enough mounts/pets/items which you can interact with.

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Originally Posted by Owltoid

I love it - for all those that say PvP multiboxing is easy, there are remarkably few that are actually successful at it. I'd say 75% of the multiboxers I run into i random BGs are awful - must be the same peeps who think it's all about spamming one button. I rape them every chance I get.

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PvP multiboxing ain't easy. The main point is to stay alive and the more you box the harder it gets. i'm talking about facing a group of people-

They should slap /follow in RBG's as they did arenas :) and i would be happy camper.

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Originally Posted by sethlan

PvP multiboxing ain't easy. The main point is to stay alive and the more you box the harder it gets. i'm talking about facing a group of people-

They should slap /follow in RBG's as they did arenas :) and i would be happy camper.

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Frankly, if you're having troubles in random BGs without /follow, then I can't see how you'd be successful in RBGs with /follow. The removal of follow isn't a big deal for melee boxers.

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Originally Posted by Owltoid

Frankly, if you're having troubles in random BGs without /follow, then I can't see how you'd be successful in RBGs with /follow. The removal of follow isn't a big deal for melee boxers.

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Even with melee it's a big deal. Simple things like running up a tower are next to impossible. It was hard enough keeping them together for it with follow. The change really killed it for me. I enjoyed making a difference in the bg's prior to the change.

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Originally Posted by pinotnoir

Even with melee it's a big deal. Simple things like running up a tower are next to impossible. It was hard enough keeping them together for it with follow. The change really killed it for me. I enjoyed making a difference in the bg's prior to the change.

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There are many ways you can contribute to the success of your team without running up a tower. However, as alliance I was still spending a large amount of the BG guarding IWB against horde very successfully. As long as you stick to the alliance towers (for either offense or defense) you can play a limited version of the tower game.

The only BGs where you may have a big change are the two 10-man capture the flag BGs. WSG is probably the most difficult, but you can still help the team win by controlling the mid.

If anyone watched my stream and disagrees that I was very effective in BGs then please speak up - I can take the criticism. I'd say I streamed a good 40 hours of BGs over the last 10 days and rarely ever was the lack of /follow a huge hindrance.

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Originally Posted by Owltoid

If anyone watched my stream and disagrees that I was very effective in BGs then please speak up

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I watched quite a bit of it and I would not disagree with you. However, you are a top end multiboxer, and as you say primarily melee.

Now Since Blizzard has not outlawed multiboxing in BGs, but as Bashiok said in his post about /follow being removed

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Originally Posted by Bashiok

we were ok with it also resulting in multiboxing in battlegrounds also going away due to the poor experience it can create for others.

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Do you think think the "others" (i.e. the majority casual solo players) are having a better experience with the average multiboxer still playing in battlegrounds, but only less effectively than before when they had /follow?

Granted Owltoid, your play is minimally impacted, but it would seem that an average boxer with casters will be much more noticeably impacted, and therefore likely to create an even "poorer experience for others".

P.s. The only gripe I had with your streaming was logging in to your channel and seeing "FTL" as the message and thinking for the few seconds it took to load that maybe Blizzard had reverted /follow for BGs, only to find you were playing the space strategy game FTL lol.