Rated BG team

[Ualaa]

For the most part, when playing premade vs premade, one of the two will leave.

On my server, most of the premades are formed server side.
So if we see 12+ players from the same server, we'll take the other queue as soon as it pops.
Assuming they haven't done the same.

It will be interesting to experience premade vs premade.

They've said the largest group you'll be able to queue together as, is a 5-man.
But that you'll have to opt into a rated game, and will require as many players as the battleground has on a side to enter.
Not really sure if that means, an interface where you get 2/3/5 individual groups placed together kind of like a random dungeon, or if you queue as a raid.

I don't see the coordination being anything like arena.
But probably much better then is currently the norm in battlegrounds.
Probably about as good as the current premades, which range from groups who run together regularly... to a raid leader who will just call out G1 to wherever, as the battle progresses.

[Fat Tire]

For the most part, when playing premade vs premade, one of the two will leave.

On my server, most of the premades are formed server side.
So if we see 12+ players from the same server, we'll take the other queue as soon as it pops.
Assuming they haven't done the same.

It will be interesting to experience premade vs premade.

They've said the largest group you'll be able to queue together as, is a 5-man.
But that you'll have to opt into a rated game, and will require as many players as the battleground has on a side to enter.
Not really sure if that means, an interface where you get 2/3/5 individual groups placed together kind of like a random dungeon, or if you queue as a raid.

I don't see the coordination being anything like arena.
But probably much better then is currently the norm in battlegrounds.
Probably about as good as the current premades, which range from groups who run together regularly... to a raid leader who will just call out G1 to wherever, as the battle progresses.

This is one of the problems I forsee in rated BGs. A long time go when premades first came out and when wsg and 4+ hour AVs were the only things going most servers made WSG premade teams for the people grinding HW/GM. If we went up against the other premade on the server we alternated afking out to maximize honor for both sides. The problem is when you have everyone that know what they are doing it becomes a stalemate. I cant imagine high rated BGs being anything other than a stalemate or atleast a long drawn out game.

I think most higher rated arena members know this and will stick with arena except for the occasional games. However, I see this hurting 5v5. There are not that many games going anyways and I would think most casual players/guilds would choose to pug rated BGs instead of 5v5.