PvP BG's & Multiboxing hate

[Boylston]

I keep track of my multibox win/losses by BG. I rarely get any hate (almost all of it is "Nice! Boyl's crew, this is a sure win!"), but if I do, I only respond with something like...

"My 4-month EOTS win record is 92.4%. If we lose this one, it's not going to be my fault. I'll now be too busy playing this BG to continue to banter with you in /bg."


Most of the time it's not a problem. I easily get 5-10x the "love" comments than "hate" comments. If I do get negative comments, other folks often jump in and smack the person around while I'm busy. This was from last night in AV, about 5 minutes into a tough fight:

Hater_Guy: "well, it's a loss due to the lame ass multiboxer"
Random_Guy_1: "umm, he's rocking on defense and back-capping towers from the alliance, O is the problem"
Hater_Guy: "those shammies are not even near the top of the damage chart"
Random_Guy_2: "sort by HKs, moron, shaman boxers are 101 HKs and 1 death currently, with 3 tower recaps on the main one"
Hater_Guy: "watever, it's cheating and he's hurting us"
Random_Guy_1: "Just stop whining and play."
Random_Guy_3: "Boylston freaking rocks, I love being in BGs with him"


This kind of BG chat is pretty typical, if there's any negativity at all. I just ignore people and go about the business of winning. WSG can be dicier, so I have to take a little more time to chat in /bg to explain how to best work with my team. I still struggle to have more than a 65% win record for that BG though (the rest are all 85%+).

[opt]

Random_Guy_3: "Boylston freaking rocks, I love being in BGs with him"

lol, i love random guy 3, its funny when you join a bg and someone knows you from a different realm. mines usuaily, the opti crew is here! fuck yes

[kllrwlf]

The funny thing is that for my battlegroup, this is our win percentage.

AV = 90% Win
EOTS = 40% Win
AB = 10% Win
WSG= 0% Win

In AV and EOTS, almost nobodies notices my 5-man team... win or lose...

AB and WSG, the blame is always on someone... if I'm multiboxing, then the multiboxer... if I'm solo... someone else gets the blame.

[cepheus]

Random_Guy_3: "Boylston freaking rocks, I love being in BGs with him"

lol, i love random guy 3, its funny when you join a bg and someone knows you from a different realm. mines usuaily, the opti crew is here! fuck yes

Its amazing how fast you actually get know throughout your battlegroup. When I was on my priest/lock team, I got recognized about every game I joined, and I got more accepted each time as people saw that the BG usually was won.

When I now started my new shammy team, I saw the same thing. Got a lot of hate in the beginning, but now I'm winning a lot, and I get far less hate. If you do good in BG's you will get known quite fast, and also more often get support from your teammates against the haters.

[Boylston]

If you do good in BG's you will get known quite fast, and also more often get support from your teammates against the haters.

True. If you are multiboxing in a BG and sucking, you will easily gain a bad reputation.

AV is a great way to start multiboxing... By playing defense you can have a huge amount of control over the outcome of a game (just back-capping towers will buy your team oodles of time). EOTS is also a nice one to get started with...

[Mudd]

The best macros for AV:

/script ReportPlayerIsPVPAFK("target")
-- and --
/script ReportPlayerIsPVPAFK("focustarget")

[kllrwlf]

The best macros for AV:

/script ReportPlayerIsPVPAFK("target")
-- and --
/script ReportPlayerIsPVPAFK("focustarget")

That's sexy! :thumbsup:

[twobztwop]

Finally got the 20 wsg tokens I needed last week. It was brutal, and would always get blamed for a loss (I did win a few though). If I queued up as a group (5x shamans) it would take 30 - 40 minutes just to get into a game. I'd run 1 and sometimes 2 AV's before my wsg would pop.

FYI for anyone trying to get their team WSG tokens... I grabbed an addon from curse called critandrun which works much like the AVpremade addons but for all bg's. Queuing up the team separately reduced the queue time from 30+ minutes to <1minute. Just had to re-queue a few times before I'd get everyone in the same BG -- still worked out great though -- and you're less likely to run into premades.

[Littleburst]

I haven't met any haters yet. (at lvl 36 atm)

I only get positive replies. From people who say: "WTF?" or others who know a bit more and ask if i'm multiboxing. I even got quite some twinkhealers to back me up when AoEing etc. So i really don't recognize all that hating.

[JoeWunsch]

/script ReportPlayerIsPVPAFK("focustarget")

Thank you!