Most of the Bg blitz maps need to change. The only good ones are gilneas and silvershard.
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WSG and TWIN PEAKS are perfect
Are you considering terrain advantages?
Funny reading that. Same exact thing and same exact number happened to me a couple months back.
We were in the lead and didn’t even need to cap. The person capping was the lowest CR player on the team and had no idea what was going on. They grabbed the flag and came to cap it. The other team had basically given up at this point and was just sitting mid. Because of that, they were close to the other base already and just went and grabbed it. We didn’t have anyone on the other side since we just need to hold flag and win.
Awful, awful design.
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Sounds like a skill issue and players with knowledge of the game shouldn’t make these mistakes. It only happens in 1500 mmr and the occasional placement games.
I think the design is fine, being able to save a game by forcing a cap and stealing 2 bases is a good play.
All complaints about EotS seem to be a skill issue because players don’t bother to learn the strats.
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First part is true second part unfortunately is not. Ive had plenty of games go on for 3 caps longer because some dingus keeps capping it/getting gripped to cap.
Ive even seen people grip someone they know has a pickup bot to flag and then have it dropped near them so they auto grab and cap it.
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That’s crazy.
That’s why I mentionned occasional placement games for players who get placed in high mmr games when it’s their first time playing EotS Blitz.
It happens a lot more often when I’m playing Blitz on my 8th alt at 1500 than my main hunter at 2200.
I another thread I said that anyone who understands EotS Blitz can get 1800 in Blitz 
because of how messy it can get if the wrong things happen.
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It happens in high games as well. Players can win 6-7 matches in a row to start, still be in greens, still have no idea what’s going on, and be 2700+ MMR. Have seen it happen plenty of times.
Nah, just a poorly designed map currently.
Not sure if something like that exists, but you wouldn’t need it. Bind your interact key to your mouse wheel or another key you can easily spam.
bind Interact With Mouseover as scroll wheel up and scroll wheel down and then rebind your camera zoom to like alt + scroll up and alt + scroll down… Then you spam your mousewheel where the flag is going to drop and congrats, you get HoTA
That doesn’t change the fact it’s a backwards map design. And it doesn’t take “skill” to know that capping the flag can hurt your team. That has nothing to do with skill.
Why are you defending this backwards design?
Because I think Blitz EotS is fun.
Which EotS is your favorite?
yes pls remove
I don’t know the odds of never winning Eye of the Storm, but if I queue into it as Alliance or Horde, you can be sure we aren’t going to win.
Yep. Had similar. Got my team both bases as a Rogue.
Dragon instantly pulled our FC into the base.
We lost the double cap on bases and because they new I sniped a base they made sure 2 were at BET to stop me. Woulda lost the game if our team didn’t knock the enemy FC into a base so I could grab another 2 cap by being faster than the enemies and smoke bombing.
In effect both teams felt cheated out of their win at some point by someone on their team capping the flag early.
It is now 4 bases, I assume like the RBG version.
Continuing the discussion from Midnight Alpha Test Development Notes:
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Really they just needed to make it so certain specs (like outlaw rogue/mage/dh) can no longer prevent your team from capping the first base on your side of the map. This will likely still be a problem even after they revert it to the old rbg eots.
They need to make the first set of bases cap for free without requiring a player to cast on the flag node.
I kinda like the RBG mode, that means no more reset cap. A rogue can ninja but it’s basically a 4 base map now.
Going for 3 base will be good.
I dont think the solution is more reliance on sitters to hold a base in blitz for EOTS. Watching a team have trouble holding one is gonna make EOTS painfully if you dont get two base sitters
I don’t mind going back to the 4 base rbg version. It is way simpler and does not have the crazy destabilizing effect that winning the mid flag can have in the blitz version. If your team is stronger you can just win the BG more reliably.
I will also remind everyone that speed-capping the flag repeatedly with 1 base is slightly quicker points than 3 bases with no flag caps in rbg eots.
It’s funny how Blizzard recognizes the lack of intelligence of many PvP blitz players for this type of game (EOST Blitz is not difficult, but there are always 2 or 3 players who look like bots when fighting on roads).