No more raid groups for BGs

[Alemi]

Anyone see any notes about this change? I'm hoping it's not intended, but I'm fearing that it was with the advent of rated BGs on the horizon.

To clarify: You may no longer queue for ANY BG with more than 5 people.

Kinda sucks when I want to PVP with a few friends from my guild...

[blast3r]

Ah crap! That SUCKS! That is the main reason I want to 10 box.

[HPAVC]

What does the error message say?

[Noids]

Doesn't that seem to be counter to the idea of 10v10 and 15v15 rated BG teams?

[Owltoid]

Yeah, this isn't making any sense. Personally, if this change is true then I love it. That would mean I no longer have to convince someone on the server to take my toons and instead I can continue queueing like normal for rated BGs. I think the OP is wrong.

[zenga]

A bit ago I made this thread on the official EU wow forums. Never got a reply. Guess it's coincidence.

[daanji]

With rated BGs, I was planning on Qing for just non-rated BGs, since it would be hard to find a solid team that wants to take a boxer.

However, if there are rated BGs only AND you can only Q 5 at a time, I can see some fall out from this.

Boxers will continue to Q as normal, but since it is rated the players will instantly blame the boxer for the loss. They already do that now, even if its true or not. With it being rated, I can see these same people screaming louder and louder until Blizzard does something about it.

Maybe I'm just paranoid.

[Ualaa]

Unless you can queue for rated as a raid.
And have to.

But cannot go higher than the group size.
For non-rated.

[HPAVC]

My assumption is that there is a error message that is tossing an exception to people joining non-rated bgs as a raid, in order to avoid the qq-fest of noobs trying to join normal bgs as if they are rated. And to avoid using non-rated bgs as a remade murder fest by rated teams. So now a non-rated bg can just have a group of premade people join it, but not a entire raid.

[BrothelMeister]

Randoms always had this 5 man cap, so maybe its just a glitch where someone missed a line when they were fixing things up for the patch.