At what point do you leave AV?

[heyaz]

I typically never afk out due to the debuff. If I'm in a small BG and it's a guaranteed loss I'll either try to farm kills, or if it's a really organized premade (ran into a KT premade in powerball and i couldn't even get kills) I just wait it out and get my points for the loss. The loss is a lot quicker if you're taking up half or 1/3 of the team and stop contributing.

Powerball is the only 10 man I can consistently win, at least well over 50%, but I can tell within the first few minutes if that's the case. I rush in and try to wipe as many as possible; if I end up with most of my team still alive and/or can rez a few dead DKs we can usually win. If it's a close one like 1600-1000 kind of deal, you still get a lot of honor due to battlegrounds with points awarding a chunk of honor the more you get. Same goes with EOTS or Gilneas or AB, hold a few nodes till the end and still get decent honor.

I can't figure out Silvershard Mines to save my life. No matter how much I kill, how many carts I steal (I go wipe a group following a cart) we still seem to be way behind in points. Need to come up with a strategy for that one. There is only one spawn point for each team so you don't have to worry about your guys being split up, but the tricky part is running the carts which is what gets you points.

I have always hated IOC but stay till the end no matter what due to high honor. In AV, as a 5 boxer I can't seem to make a big difference; back capping is hit or miss especially as horde with the difficulty or running toons up those towers and then just getting stuck around a corner or getting thunderstormed/typhooned out. I think it'd be much easier to back cap an alliance tower, but then again there are LoS issues for ranged and not enough room to run around as melee. For defending Galv I need at least 5-10 others to come with me as 5v20 just doesn't work out that well, too much cc.

I cannot stand SoTa, having your toons split up right off the bat is a game killer, and then spawning all over the place if you die sucks as well. If you don't get the hell off the beach really fast you can just be snared/sapped/whatever and all you can do is pray for a respawn all the way back at the yellow gate.