Phasing into a battleground to find yourself in a random group up against a premade of the opposing faction is not fun. At all. It is not fun. I can’t think of any better reason for them to be actively prevented. Please. Premades are ruining the random battleground experience for anyone who plays them for fun.
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So you want them to nerf friends and grouping? In an MMO? A Massive, multiplayer, online game?
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I’m not having fun alone so other people should be unable to have fun with their friends.
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Totally. And not the fact that my 221 warrior got put on a team full of random people all above 215 vs an alliance team with a single member over 30k hp is completely ok as long as we’re not grouped lol…
battlegrounds should just be 2v2 or just 1v1 matches according to some people
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Nop, their is an option to group as a pre-made so you fight against other pre-made groups., so you can do it with friends and such. he is speaking about the various way people use to queue as a pre-made against a real random group. So basically they are just murdering poor innocent.
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If only we had a PvP mode for that. Something like an Arena…
Yeah, that would be a great idea! An Arena! Why haven’t we thought of this before?
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There’s a huge difference between queueing with one or two friends and coordinating 5-man groups to with twinks in low level bgs, or highly geared players in max level bgs. And even if one is allowed to queue in a 5 person group (which I think they shouldn’t) then they should be subject to stricter matchmaking algorithms, like only being matched against other 5-man groups.
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Blizz literally forces geared 38k+ hp players into random bgs with 24k hp players to level their conquest gear with honor lol, I don’t think premades are the problem here, but sure it makes a issue worse I guess… hell I have no problem with friends playing together.
Most ppl are getting their rank through easymode rated bgs , which is super ez to climb rank in, and get full of themselves not wanting to lose their rank they worked oh so hard for so its not an option to honor farm. So they go into random bgs to stomp screbs that just lvld to 60. Blizz promotes this trash
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Look at what I was replying to again.
The person was specifically joking about a “2v2 or 1v1” BG. Maybe don’t put words in my mouth?
Especially when its on a thread created by a level 50 account with no prior posts.
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Nah they can just normalized the scaling for random battlegrounds and arena skirmishes at item level at 197.
There is no fix for this. MMO’s are designed to played with friends and groups. If you are penalized by playing with said friends or groups by only being pitted against other pre-mades people would complain about that as well.
Make friends, join BG’s with other people, etc. At it’s heart, that is what an MMO is designed for.
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They should do that too, but that doesn’t change the fact that there is nothing fair (and therefore nothing fun) about going up against a coordinated team when your own group is comprised of people queueing independently. This could be easily solved by changing matchmaking so that groups can only be matched against groups of equal size.
But yeah, they should normalize item levels again in PvP. For me, WoD was the ideal for PvP.
And as for Imperia:
There IS an easy fix for this, and that is matching premade groups only against other premade groups. If it really is so core to “what an mmo is designed for,” (which is questionable) then there should be no problem with queue times or anything. And if it isn’t core, then it’s been a problem all along and we shouldn’t mourn for people who are making the game miserable for everyone else.
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premades in BGs has been an issue since queing was added.
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200 it is then!
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They could make a separate mode for solo pvp queue only, but then it will need to include 40 man battlegrounds as well. That’s how I can see this working without eliminating premade pvp for random battlegrounds primarily .
I mean, it’s really neither here nor there as to what is “primary.” What needs to be the case is that people queuing individually are not matched against people queuing in a coordinated group. That’s all.
what you just described, is quite literally rated bgs. 
that aside, if a group of people are queueing into a random bg at the same time, none physically grouped, all of them from different servers, how could the game possibly tell that they’re a premade?
i want to hear this “easy fix”…
This is why adding a queue to arenas is a Bad Idea.
We just dont want to spend time looking for someone to join our team
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Dont let 2 or 3 friends go against a random group, it’s not fair.
“I’m going to die some day, so what’s the point of swerving to avoid that fallen rock in the road?”
Just because there are other issues to address doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fix the obvious problems right in front of us- and the obvious problems are easy: stop group queueing.
Furthermore, I find it hard to believe that Blizzard is incapable of monitoring whether or not the same group of players are continually queueing at the exact same time multiple times in a row and dividing them into different instances.