Alliance had a rough night in epics, people were CONSTANTLY leaving games left and right. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if something like 1/3 (or more) of the Alliance team ended up just being backfillers/new people by the end of the matches
Alliance epics really do often just devolve into a “revolving door” of players where people leave on a whim. It’s also very common for backfillers to zone in, see the score, and immediately afk back out.
Didn’t get hangar in IoC? Leave instantly
Lost the first teamfight? Leave instantly
SHB got burned? Leave instantly
Just a really bad night overall, awful performance from Ally tonight
Yeah there is always “that guy” that is screaming stuff like “rush RH!!!” And its louder than most so all follow him and boom, alliance gets put on the downward spiral and the revolving door starts spinning.
The only one where I leave almost immediately is Wintergrasp
I wasn’t even mercing yesterday, but “yikes!” is right… last night seemed like an “extinction level event” in Alliance epic bgs. It was bad lol
For some reason, AV kept popping more than usual, which didn’t help things either. In like 3 of those games we had some “go Galv” trolls successfully convince like half the Alliance team to rush Galv at the start - you can probably guess how those games went
Just imagine if deserter were account wide or “lasted 24 hours” or some other such awful idea/nonsense - there would probably be like no Alliance players left to play against
You would probably “have” to implement Blizzard AI bots in such a scenario, because the matchmaking system would legit struggle to fill these “revolving door” Alliance epic bgs with so many of these Alliance constantly having deserter debuff.