Oh great, yet another premade.
Isle of conquest. And instead of winning the game, the premade just sat around farming the GY and taking down all the gates and ignoring the boss.
Absolute trash hour long BG.
Why is this still a thing?
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Was it an alliance premade? - they can also merc.
I don’t know. Blizzard is, for some reason, allergic to making content cross faction.
Can’t do cross faction dungeon finder. Can’t do cross faction open world questing (pretty sure but someone correct me if I’m wrong). Can’t do cross faction random battlegrounds. And certainly, we definitely, absolutely, cannot under any circumstance, have cross faction epic battlegrounds because that would “destroy the faction RP”.
Yet we have cross faction guilds now. Go figure.
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It was both actually.
The alliance side claimed they weren’t really a premade and only had two groups.
That might be partly why the horde premade made it as long and painful as possible.
Interesting. I just don’t know of any horde premades that fit your description because the ones I know would be trying to win IoC with kills if the alliance are dug in. Winning with kills is a legitimate way of winning the BG. But hard to tell since I don’t know what happened.
Someone said AVM (?)
Either way, every single game with premades is awful
Premades are not a legitimate way to win.
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Here’s my guess. There were premades on both sides. The alliance premade decided to dig in and defend. The horde premade said, “Oh ok, I guess we just farm them down.” Happens in AV too when the alliance decide to defend the bridge to DB.
Solos always have the option to AFK out if they just don’t want to play.
It just annoys me when premde vs. premade games happen and soloers are still unhappy. Isn’t that what people want? If I play solo I would want a premade on my side if there’s a premade on the other side. Then you just play it out, or leave if you’re unwilling. 
Really? I am supposed to /afk? What kind of solution is that?
No one wants premades! I don’t care what side they are on. They completely ruin every game they are in.
What people want is for premades to stop. Go play wargames instead.
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Okay, if the game recognizes a premade then there should be no deserter buff for leaving (only in epic bgs)
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The premade group Ruslan and friends or whatever they call themselves likes to farm pug groups every now and then. The premade leader emote spams as he does it.
It just annoys me when premade vs premade games happen
They’re not.
and soloers are still unhappy
Because solo players are stuck on a team of tryhard goofs facing other tryhard goofs.
My first encounter with premades was in IoC, I can’t remember who the leader was but he was streaming and had a couple of “spies” on the horde side.
Iirc (it was some years ago so my memory blurry) things went like: they stomped, and decided to farm HK. They gave express instructions to not take quarry/refinery so the reinforcements would still go up and so they could farm for a while. If some alliance took said nodes, their horde “spies” would just cap it again. At some point I just decided to give up and quit the battleground because I was tired of them (game was long af, I want to say over an hour but might be an exaggeration)
So yeah, I just no longer play ebgs
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That was my last experience in the last epic I queued a month or more ago. Completely dead content. After 15 minutes of being farmed, I just left, which made me lose my queue in shuffle.
People just need to stop queueing for them. Unfortunately only a very small portion of players come here and plenty probably don’t even understand why they lose so often. Sucks.
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IoC was full of the blood thirsty title groups that use to farm with the siege engine before they added the immunity bubble. Those days sucked if you were on the losing end. I believe it was around when the oqueue add on was out that made premade queing easy, but i might be wrong
Weird, I was informed they were mainly interested in fair, competitive games. 
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I’m pretty sure Ruin gaming still does this to this day on IOC. They take all points, even the base to force spawn everyone into the beach graveyard and use all vehicles to shoot into the gy to farm HKs for hours.
there is no immunity bubble in IoC. there should be one for the default GY, but holding a team at a node GY so they can’t counterplay is a valid strat. IMO it becomes griefing when the boss is killable and they don’t break off to go kill it… but its also common for some premades to act like they were gy farmed when they weren’t or they decided to turtle and then act like the other team isn’t pushing the boss, so all this stuff has to be taken with a grain of salt.
I’m in IoC pretty regularly as solo Q.
I have seen the GY farm maybe two times, a long time ago close together timewise. It was on Alliance, I solo Q’d in, and holy crap was it sad to be on the team doing it. I tried to get peeps together to down the boss, but there was a sickness there. I think this may have been the Ruin people. It left a bad taste in my mouth so to this day I avoid that group in anything I have a choice in. I have not seen it lately, though. That does not mean it does not happen.
Mostly the way it works now is one side is smashed by the other in the first fight and the losing side gives up. I end up on the losing side a lot and so have learned to have good fights while resisting the inevitable.
That said, sometimes that first fight is very close and very long and not easy to call. And if the side that lost the first fight were to continue fighting and not have a lot of players /afk leave, they could recover and win. I have seen that too…not very often. I think it is because it has been easy to level and gear alts and there is no full account leave game early punishment. Of course, if there was full account punishment, we’d see more salkers in the corners /afk after the first fight.
All the hard talk until the going gets hard eh? lol, something like that.
There is in the base if a faction controls it to prevent camping. There use to be no bubble when the blood thirsty parties were really running rampant with siege one shotting raid groups. Now they farm the hill which has no bubble which I think should
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