2.4 and AV join as a group

[Kyudo]

According to worldofraids.com, in patch 2.4 you'll be able to join AV as a group again, no need for mods in the future?

screenshot: http://www.worldofraids.com/2008/ptr/24/avgroup.jpg

[Boylston]

My biggest hope for 2.4 is that the Alliance on our battlegroup will finally end their "AV Boycott" and decide to queue again. In the last 2 months, our 60-90 second queues exploded to 70+min after the entire alliance side of the battlegroup decided to take their ball and go home.

[Mith]

Never underestimate the power of tears. Alliance cried about the AV geometry long enough and finally got it changed. If they still get stomped what will their excuse be this time?

[Monkofdoom]

The join as group button is on the ptr so yay

[Shogun]

Never underestimate the power of tears. Alliance cried about the AV geometry long enough and finally got it changed. If they still get stomped what will their excuse be this time?

And Horde never bitched before that... The alliance bitching/whining started after Blizz had decided that enough was enough and it was time to balance AV, it's not the fact that the alliance were whining that made them tweak it more, they'd already started balancing it

[Xzin]

Oh man join as group option.. thats so tempting to roll in there and 10 box. Even if only on the PTRs.

1/4 chance to get leader... as long as the 3/4 other times, I am given leader or put into correct groups....... heloooooooo honor farming :)

[BobGnarly]

I've noticed something about being leader in bgs. I haven't been able to quite nail it down, but I think it works like this. If you join the bg while in a group, and are the last leader group leader to join (meaning that any other group leader that joined joined before you), then you get it.

I'm not 100% sure on the mechanic, but basically I queue up wsg/ab/eots with friends here and there, and when I do, if I wait approx 1 min to join, I am almost always the raid leader when I get in.

BTW, whatever the mechanic is exactly appears to work right now with AV, even though you can't join as a group. Meaning, if you queue up as a group leader, this same type of thing works. We ran AV as a group (queueing individually until we got the same one, of course) a few weeks back, and our group leader was almost always raid leader when we got in.

Try it out.

[Diamndzngunz]

This is something I have been waiting for, for a long time. I swear its going to rape. I cannot wait to see my whole guild go into an AV and smash on the horde.

[Vyndree]

The one thing I don't like about this just occured to me a couple minutes ago:

organized AFK reporting. Ironically more strategic than their AV strategy in general -- a pug horde was able to wipe them all.

But they'd organize their AFK reporting when Suvega or I were defending nodes/capping towers so that we wouldn't earn honor for the nodes we were defending/capping. Happened like 5-6 times on me alone -- they'd afk report me while I was waiting to rez at a GY, and by the time I was even close to any battles I'd already have the idle flag up.

Meanwhile Suvega and I are tearing up the healing and damage meters, and other pugs are complaining on BG that "the multiboxers are doing better than your org" but it doesn't matter. With the amount of afk reports they're able to give thanks to being an org, we're still out the honor.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...65490784&sid=1

[Hippieman]

The one thing I don't like about this just occured to me a couple minutes ago:

organized AFK reporting. Ironically more strategic than their AV strategy in general -- a pug horde was able to wipe them all.

But they'd organize their AFK reporting when Suvega or I were defending nodes/capping towers so that we wouldn't earn honor for the nodes we were defending/capping. Happened like 5-6 times on me alone -- they'd afk report me while I was waiting to rez at a GY, and by the time I was even close to any battles I'd already have the idle flag up.

Meanwhile Suvega and I are tearing up the healing and damage meters, and other pugs are complaining on BG that "the multiboxers are doing better than your org" but it doesn't matter. With the amount of afk reports they're able to give thanks to being an org, we're still out the honor.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...65490784&sid=1

*That*, dear Vyn, is just LAME... and I pray it won't spread. Organizing afk reports? You'd think they miiight wanna spend a bit more effort organizing a proper defense/assault T.T