… “Solo only” players can’t be taken that seriously when it comes to unrated BGs. At least half of comp stomp teams - the players, not the bots - don’t play the objectives well or do the most basic PvP jobs. They take for granted that they’ll win. They want the overall easiness of comp stomp and love having to put in minimal effort. They couldn’t care less about practicing good habits and methods of play.
That’s how they play BGs as well. Objectives-based PvP should not be designed around these types of players.
I noticed on my first match rushing stables from horde side there was a prot paladin defending.
Day 2 the match had a prot paladin and disc priest defending.
It would be a stretch to claim its adapting, but I wouldn’t put it past blizz to have icorporated some form of micro adjustment based on individual player strategy and just plugging it into the AI to attempt to learn how to counter it. Like if you have 5 players who rush LM every comp stomp all in the same match, the AI adapts.
It has to start somewhere, I really don’t think its that deep, yet, but comp stomp is a decent testing ground for blizzard to improve its AI capabilities with minimal dev hours needed.
Thing that gets me with comp stomp though is how people still chase pointless kills, like yeah I’m fighting 2v5 because its enabling a base cap, don’t help me and turn it into a 4v5, go cap the flag. Honor kills don’t even exist in stomp, but people still turn strategic population leaks into brawls.
It’s true that many pug players don’t focus on objectives, yet premade players struggle to beat pug teams when they solo queue or only play with a 5-man group, and that’s exactly why they want to cheat by q sync. How many people would bother relying on premade if they can win 50% of their epic bgs?
So it actually suggests that, on average, premade players are worse than pug players. In a 40-man pug team, you can definitely find 15+ players with 2000 bg rating or better pvp achievements, while most players in a premade team are sub 1600.
There’s more to Marks of Honor than transmogs. When you’re Honor Level 2,611 (which is ranked 14th in the ENTIRE World) you go through A LOT of potions. I need all the Marks I can get for season 2.
I was joking about xmog being important. It’s not, just a fun side thing. And randoms are random, so I was kinda poking fun at the complaints.
That said collecting all pvp xmogs from all seasons on all toons possible takes 1000s of marks. I’m just on 2 toons again, so I have all I can collect and so marks piling up…again.
