Boxing Rating BGs... gonna do it?

[Ualaa]

Points cannot be lost with a BG loss.
I'd imagine there will be a ton of PUG rated BG's; nothing to lose for a loss, and points available for wins.

Whether you get your maximum weekly points from arena 2's, 3's or 5's, or from rated BG's, everyone will want their points each week.

[Sephice]

Rated BGs will work for EotS, Alterac, Ioc

vs a good grp its fucking hard in WS, Arathi is possible with max 2 Boxers but i think not very effectiv ...

The new Cata BG will work i think because there is only one place, it makes fun but i cant MB on the Beta

[Littleburst]

Rated BGs will work for EotS, Alterac, Ioc

vs a good grp its fucking hard in WS, Arathi is possible with max 2 Boxers but i think not very effectiv ...

The new Cata BG will work i think because there is only one place, it makes fun but i cant MB on the Beta

To be clear, i don't think having more then 1 boxer in a BG is an advantage. Maybe 2 in AV, but that's it. Keeping that in mind, i think aslong as you have a decent team, you can do well in every BG.

[Sephice]

EoTs, 2 Boxer run forwart, one Draenei, other mage, 1 - 2 Healers to support them, one solo player take the BE and the other one the other tower

worked for me in every EotS and versus core grous(?)

Alterac is a Zerg the best way to win

IoC support or zerg, but all tactics we can test this weekend to try what will work with MB.

Keep in mind, MB Bgs work different, you must make new tactics and play different, with playing the normal Style you cant win

[Barazanthul]

Hmm i will rewrite sephice comment so it's more userfriendly :P

EotS Strat:

1 Boxer on Drenai, one boxer on Mage and some healers to support them. The rest of the team tapps your base and trys to defend against the few enemys trying to get the flag. This strat worked quite well on the last EotS WE. We even got some premades with this tactics, but i think we have to change this strat.

In Alterac, zerging is the best way to win. Just tap the first two towers, defend your own towers and zerg down the alliance.

On IoC we did not have much time to test, but this week is an IoC Weekend, so we will try out some tacticts there. Zerg or def works both. Most of the time we push to the docs, because the hangar is not so boxerfriendly :P

My two cents:

I think for 15 man Bg's you should not have more than one boxer maybe two. But that is the maximum. Otherwise you will hinder your team to much, because most of the team is at the same place. We saw that on the EotS we. Everytime we did not split, we had problems.

[BrothelMeister]

AB-SO-LUTELY!!

Why not partake in rated BGs? Shaman can rape in 5v5 with well coordinated team-sets. so why would we not be able to dominate in 10v10 or 15v15 with slightly less coordinated efforts ?

My current server is low pop, so I know all the PvPers, and they know me. Making up a half-decent BG group shouldn't be too hard. One thing that we will all ahve going for us that most of us might not have had is that we are starting on a level peg with EVERYONE as far as gear. I started playing WoW shortly after Wrath release, so I've never been able to start on a level peg, I've always been playing catch-up. This time around, my characters will be exactly on level with everyone else, not to mention that I can 5-box heroics to grind gear non-stop

TL;DR Boxers will rape in Cata, Don't fret

[Ualaa]

As long as you play the rated BG's each week, however many it takes until you cap points for the week... you'll be on equal footing (gear wise) with the most talented arena/rated BG players.

Without the possibility of a loss of points for the rated BG's, and with the increased likelihood of less skilled/geared opposition (compared to competitive arena), I'd think rated BG's would be the optimal playground for the majority of boxers.

If you've got an optimal arena composition and are skilled in that regard, that's a decent option too.

[Sephice]

Yeah, arena is a big point too, you can get it in 2vs2 3vs3 and and and

I hope i can make a good 4 + 1 Team, i think Arena is a good place too

[Mokoi]

Let's not forget, rated BGs are not a kill or be killed 5v5 arena match. There is far more strategy involved in a BG than in a simple arena match. You could roll your way to a full set of PvP gear by defending bases, ninja capping towers, returning flags, and of course kills.

[Ualaa]

I'd be interested in hearing strategies that work for one (five-boxer) or two (five-boxers) boxers, for given maps.

In theory, because of the coordination, we have more firepower/burst, possibly more survivability then individual players, but less flexibility in terms of variable numbers of toons at each are of a given map.