Quote Originally Posted by Alemi View Post
Back in the vanilla days (before battlegroups during the HWL/GM grind days) when we'd do premade wsg vs other premade guild wsgs, it was always about assist training and, quite literally, moving as a complete group. We'd leave 0 on defense and split into, normally a 7/3 split (7 to return ours on the way back and 3 to take theirs to the cap). I don't forsee it being that much different this time around.
I played thousands of premades starting from early WSG twink days to the GM grind and I remember those strats. I see it being very similar. I see stalemates as well.

When I think about how rated BG's will be - I think of the incredible coordination and skill back in vanilla premades, multiply it by 5 (since twitchy, instant reflex. amazing pvpers seemed to come off an assembly line ever since late BC), throw in aoe cc and high damage or even bubbles for every class, and finally add the fact that people are familiar with multiboxers and their weaknesses.

It will definitely be a challenge, and no offense to any of the posters here, many of which did phenomenal in season 8 (which I mostly missed), but the 'I'll just do my super instagib nuke combo and win the game' nonsense is getting tired. If we want to formulate strategies that will work, we need to consider all the variables and possible counters instead of romanticizing about instagibbing flag carriers from behind trees in pugs.