Premades group for Rated Battlegrounds

[daviddoran]

Hmm, 25 player AV, totally changes the strategy. Are the non rated ones still going to be the same number of players?

I hope it doesn't kill non rated BGs, and I hope I can still que 5 of my guys into a non rated one. Part of why I like BGs is that the Opponent isn't necessarily coordinated. My hope is that it will be similar to arena, you do a minimum # of matches per week, and once you are capped on the high end points, you go back to regular BGs for the low lvl pvp points, which don't have a cap.

[Dooz]

Hmm, 25 player AV, totally changes the strategy. Are the non rated ones still going to be the same number of players?

I hope it doesn't kill non rated BGs, and I hope I can still que 5 of my guys into a non rated one. Part of why I like BGs is that the Opponent isn't necessarily coordinated. My hope is that it will be similar to arena, you do a minimum # of matches per week, and once you are capped on the high end points, you go back to regular BGs for the low lvl pvp points, which don't have a cap.

I hope they make a totally different BG rather than scale back /change AV. Even if its a rated BG, I'm not sure how much I'd like doing it with 25 slots.

The rated BG will change the way I play ths game. I've always loved PvP but hated arenas because I felt a little gimped and claustrophobic. World PvP died with Burning Crusade, and ganking is rarely fun. The queue times for AV's are horrible in my battle group. I sometimes wait hours to get in an AV. I'm really hoping this turns out to be fun.

[Mosg2]

From the blue posts the rated BG rotates every week. I don't think it's going to have that horrible of an impact on non-rated BG's to be honest... But I guess we'll see!

[Fat Tire]

From the blue posts the rated BG rotates every week. I don't think it's going to have that horrible of an impact on non-rated BG's to be honest... But I guess we'll see!

They are doing cross north america bg rated battlegrounds, they just moved the dallas data center to chicago this past tuesday. No idea if or when they will move the others, but I would imagine it would be better overall for queues.

[Mosg2]

I really wish you could que up for a rated BG with just what you have and it would match the rest. I'm really happy with the system so far--It could've turned out much much worse.

[Dooz]

I really wish you could que up for a rated BG with just what you have and it would match the rest. I'm really happy with the system so far--It could've turned out much much worse.

I understand where they are coming from by having the BG leader set up "raid." The way this system is set up, it affords the BG leader the opportunity to group people, and develop stratagies based on those group compositions, well before the battle starts. I don't like the idea of putting my rating in the hands of random people that want to do 25 different things. I think you'd be very lucky to have a good rating with a matching system. Getting honor to buy welfare epics is another story. I'm more than happy to queue randomly to do that.

On that note, if anyone want's to come over to Firetree Horde side, and start building a pvp guild now, you'd be very welcome. My adult children and I play together almost every night, and we have our own vent. My kids don't box because I'd be broke, but they are all very good at PvP. I'm currently RAFing my last account and plan to 5 box the rated bg's. Send me a PM here or a tell in game.

[Fat Tire]

I am looking forward to setting up my own groups.

With these rated bg coming out I can really see this hurting 5v5. You wont get those easy teams that just queue up and lose for points anymore, since it would be easier to get a pug to do the rated bgs. So even less teams queuing up for 5s.

[Mosg2]

Yeah, I think this is going to destroy arenas. You're not going to have near as many people playing I think. Unless they figure out a way to balance the arena rating required vs the bg rating required for gear...

Right now I'm trying to figure out which team(s) I'd like to have ready for Cata rated BG's. I'm still super psyched about Druids--Solar Beam is ridiculous.

[Mokoi]

losing 10 5v5 matches takes 10 minutes, losing 10 rated BGs? much longer. I doubt you will lose the free points in arenas.

[Andreauk]

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