Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
With the risk of making myself unpopular my 2 cents on the random BG's:

If you play 5 toons in a 10 man team, you need to play extremely well because else you are the cause of the loss. Both due to bg mechanics and due to the fact that you take up 50% of the team. I'd even go further, 5 teams in a decent 10m bg (i.e. a few opponents with a brain) are utterly useless since there is so much instant cc in the game that it's unreal. 2 idiot frost mages can lock out 50% of your team for most of the bg ... 3 seems to be the ideal number in 10 man bg's to me. You have the power of focused fire, yet you don't take up 50%. There is enough left to go after the bg objectives.

Everyone is of course allowed to play how he/she wants, and we've been through the argument if you should play a BG to win or not.

In 15m bg's (AB, Eye of the storm) it can work with 5x, but again it will require you to play way better than 5 individual players.

In SoTA after the recent changes, having 5 players stacked would be like paradise for me as your opponent. Not to mention that chances are likely that you are on 2 different boats. Attacking I can see it work since opponents will prioritize vehicles over players, but in defense 1 hunter, lock , frost mage, w/e other root + dispeller can basically knock you out of range before you even have a chance to nuke a demo.

I play quite a lot of random bg's on several toons (solo) where I queue up with friends. And if we face a 5 boxer in a smaller bg we know it's a guaranteed win. Due to mechanics, but also because the boxers I've seen in random bg's where utter crap. I could give many examples of this, but they are basically running around like headless chickens.

The change from that theory are the minority of the very skilled multiboxers, who understand the objectives and the opponents and act accordingly. Those guys are a def. asset to your team, regardless in what numbers they come. I have yet to meet one of those in a BG.

On a final note, there is a good reason why there is hardly any boxer running rated bg's. WotLK globalling, one of the main strentghs of a mb, is gone from the game (for now). If you can't blow up your target in very short time the others will just outplay you.
A lot of what you said has some truth to it.

IMO though 15 man bgs especially EOTS are pretty free wins if the other 10 people are competent in the least.

10 mans you need to pick a strat and stick to it... you can't camp mid with your team if they have too much CC... so at the beginning of the game look at their group makeup and decide to either A: cap flags B: defend C: go camp their GY because they have no healers

40 mans is just random as hell either way... you don't make or break anything there.

doing well in RBG's isn't that easy because of all the CC, but its still really hard to just roflstop you if you play well.

MOST boxers can't play well enough to actually use cooldowns correctly and react to situations... a lot of people simply mash 1 button and pray to god it works.