Finally got exalted with about 90% of that reputation gain being PuG status.
I highly recommend you NOT do that and simply just premade it. The amount of pain trying to squeeze out every victory because you get 1 mark for a loss and 0 rep for a no cap.
I faced premades probably a good 30-50% of the time depending on when I queued, but never documented it. Obviously peak hours is the worst to queue and WSG weekend is when you never PuG because that worsens the premade dilemma.
Solo Q experience is probably the worst I’ve ever been part of and it sucked not being a high-value pick because hunters and priests were so over-tuned for this phase. As a result, when I did search for premades, it took me up to an hour at certain points.
I don’t want to get rid of premades because I would like to experience the premade versus premade play, but that isn’t what this is about.
Premades are purely, 100% reputation farm groups. NOT PvP thrilling combat.
Some tips to better your experience if you’re stuck playing solo and face premades
Get some chores done while chilling on the roof
Practice your WSG jumps either in ghost form or live form
Says that solo-que is hard proceeds to afk the games.
Yikes man you are whats wrong with pugs, majority of premades are awfull and can be absolutely destroyed by pugs, the only thing thats frustrating is people like you afking and making the game 9v10.
i check out the other team before the match starts… are they all from the same realm - if yes, most likely pre-made… next charge up the left side, do they look like they want to farm kills or get it done… next if they want to get it done, i pew pew as much as possible (when i die) i just stay dead and let them win to get it over faster.
Collect 1 mark for 7 minutes of doing nothing = win
If only this was the case on every server. getting the rep over the past 10 days i’ve seen one premade on Penance AU and it was full of fresh 25s and lost 2 games and disbanded. Your expectation is not what other people get to experience. Penance is likely the outlier but hotdog it was a pain to get to 17700 rep on my human warrior.
At the end of the day they may be terrible, but they have 2-3 priests and several hunters plus flag carries.
Meanwhile your pug has 4 rogues and 3 warriors and no healers.
Give it an all out mid and if its a crushing defeat, move on
Not every game session do I have time to form a premade or to join one. Some of us have real life responsibilities and WSG is a great way play in a 1 1/2 hour window.
Solo players aren’t looking for thrilling combat either, they are there for the exact same reason premades are, to farm rep. Premades just put in the effort of forming an optimal group and communicating.
This i feel stems from the horde having people that want to pvp and the alliance have people grinding for exalted for BiS bracers for raids so loads of dps classes like warrior.
Nah, almost everyone is grinding for exalted. Also, In my experience Alliance have an edge in that it’s not uncommon to see paladin and Druid healers queueing. On the Horde side it’s pretty rare for Shaman or Druids to queue as healers. So even if Alliance lose the priest lotto, they still have a chance of getting healer. Horde…the majority of my games haven’t had a single healer.
Some of the most fun experiences I had so far in SoD was destroying premade in PuGs. Doesn’t really happen that often, but when it happens it’s really satisfying. Just try to get their FC druid before they reach the ramp and that will annoy the crap out of em.
Seriously what’s with all the rogues? I’ve been trying to get a few pug games in every morning to work on my rep and my teams are just stacked with rogues giving us such a weak frontline.
My man, absolutely fricking true, good call outs and fast movement, some jumping knowledge and you can put a premade into shambles. I mean most tradechatmades are just pugs in discord. Nothing kills games like give up attitude or the “go next attitude” .
The only thing thats op in WSG is the BFD buff, because until you wipe the team everyone has “travel form” .
Instant pops every night solo que is a blast, but its nice to hear that the flavor of the month players that sit in gy and talk about how giving up is better rep per hour are slowly leaving. Thank you
Sorry, I’m not gonna excuse crap game design from 2005 or whatever lol.
WoW just is crap for PvP, I’m going to play an actual PvP game.
Ya’ll that sit around in premades are just farming rep, not actually doing PvP, and if they added a legit 10v10 for WSG, it’d be a dead mode because no one will queue.
You WANT easy wins, not real PvP.
It’s 100% degenerate gameplay, and I’m not about to force myself to eat poop just because some of ya’ll enjoy it, lmao.
No epic bracers are worth that.
You can have fun by yourself when all the “flavor of the month” players leave, ya know, the reason SoD is popular to begin with. I’ll be with them, playing something else.