AV: What to do when getting spammed afk?

[Xyl41]

I'm not overly geared (8k hp, 640 spell damage) and still doing AV for gear. I've ran into a few games where a group of people will just spam report me afk on all 5 toons. This causes an automatic 30 minute match due to me having to turtle defense to get rid of the debuff. This has happened in a few games so far, but I"m unsure what to do. How do you all deal with this? What do you do in the event this happens?

[Naysayer]

Why do you have to turtle defense to remove the buff?

[KSboxers]

i would guess because attacking removes afk debuff.

[Naysayer]

i would guess because attacking removes afk debuff.

So you have to go on turtle defense to be able to attack? wtf?

[Xyl41]

Yes, I have to do defense to attack something. The only thing I can remove the debuff with is Drek or a player after a few minutes into the match. Drek means my shamans die and get ported back to DB, where I have to defend to keep the debuff off.

[Naysayer]

Um, wtf is wrong with your AV's? There are enemies almost always at the regular nodes. It's actually really hard to go through a full countdown to become inactive if you're just playing normally. Go cap a flag... No flags to cap for some odd reason, open your map and look for a contested node that needs defending.

[zanthor]

Um, wtf is wrong with your AV's? There are enemies almost always at the regular nodes. It's actually really hard to go through a full countdown to become inactive if you're just playing normally. Go cap a flag... No flags to cap for some odd reason, open your map and look for a contested node that needs defending.

I may be grossly mistaken, but capping a flag doesn't remove the debuff... and if it does, they can re-report you right after it goes gray such that if you sit at an unattacked node (I've sat at many for 2 minutes it takes to cap and never see a player) you get flagged as AFK and don't get the honor for the cap YOU just augmented.

Vyndree has related a huge story about this if I recall correctly, people grief reporting and blizzard doing nothing about it.

[Kayley]

I have never been spam reported before, although a person with 5 single players joined (I play with 4) - He moved all my girls away from each other so I couldn't 'participate properly' then sent in a petition :P

[Naysayer]

Um, wtf is wrong with your AV's? There are enemies almost always at the regular nodes. It's actually really hard to go through a full countdown to become inactive if you're just playing normally. Go cap a flag... No flags to cap for some odd reason, open your map and look for a contested node that needs defending.

I may be grossly mistaken, but capping a flag doesn't remove the debuff... and if it does, they can re-report you right after it goes gray such that if you sit at an unattacked node (I've sat at many for 2 minutes it takes to cap and never see a player) you get flagged as AFK and don't get the honor for the cap YOU just augmented.

Vyndree has related a huge story about this if I recall correctly, people grief reporting and blizzard doing nothing about it.

yep, you're grossly mistaken.

If they flag you again, go cap another node... Play AV.

[Crayonbox]

I haven't had the problem of anyone reporting me afk in a bg. And I am usually a hot target for the horde that they will usually rush me, which would solve the afk report problem.