My rated BG first impressions

[Fat Tire]

tough... I played 4 rated bg's tonight and got beat pretty good at all of them. did decent for a while at EOTS but lost 2 Strand and and AB. Played with 5 ele shaman. I'm not sure if it's just early season and good peeps are still low rated and crappy players are not even 85 yet.

I'm just scared that it's so much easier to win 5 arena games a week to cap your conquest, that the crappy players I usually beat on in pug bg's, won't be queing for rated bg's. I'm worried it's just going to end up all pro's

They really need to put something in to get people to play rated bg's. In fact, I don't think you should be able to play a non-rated bg personally. Otherwise you don't get casuals to balance things out a little.

I found that the teams we faced did a heck of a lot of CC and usually had 4 out of 15 as healers. I got fear bombed and cc'd so bad in strand I usually never even caught up to the demolishers. And in AB I could never click the dang flag because there was always someone alive tapping me during a cap.

Anyone else play any rated bg's yet and have any impressions?

Really would love to hear some uplifting stuff.... I"m thinking of changing my pvp team from shaman to some melee or something. Maybe even bunch of fear bombing locks.

If you read one of my posts a few months ago I stressed that boxing would be detrimental to the team, any team. Focus fire means jack in bgs when everyone respawns so fast, sure its good to coordinate kills but it wont win the game for you. Also, once people start getting resilience, haha good luck.

So far the team I am on is 10-2 and my rating is 792, but others are different even though we played the same number of games. I dont know what is going on. We have only had 2 really good games and we lost both those, but damn were they fun. The 10 wins were just so easy we felt bad. Edit; This is solo- I guess it doesnt help. ;(


In terms of arena, everyone should get 2200 with ease. The MMR system is so broken atm everyone is getting inflated mmrs. There are 3-4 classes(war,mage,feral,aff lock) that are insane atm and even though hunters are not insane dmg wise they prove to still be one of if not the best bg class.