What’s crazy is I’ve never been in one of the “naked BG’s” or “loss-made”.
If the appeal is in regards to being reported AFK in BGs, I suspect there’s a missing piece to the puzzle beyond what you’ve stated.
This on it’s own wouldn’t generally get you reported, simply because nobody else playing would have any idea that you’re AFK.
This generally wouldn’t get you reported AFK either, as you’ll inevitably end up in combat so quickly that the debuff would clear almost immediately.
Short of the AFK system being used by a premade using to grief (possible), my suspicion would be that there’s something else you may be unaware of when your attention is elsewhere, and that there may be periods of time where it’s obvious to anyone watching the map that you’re either not there or not reliably there.
That seems absolutely reasonable. I sincerely don’t know what I could have done but hopefully can hear back soon from Blizz.
That’s another interesting point, as I don’t believe I have ever even received the ‘idle’ debuff.
Yes.
You should post this thread on the Customer Service forum.
There is no such thing as multi-tasking.
You are afking. When you enter a BG you’re supposed to be playing the entire time. Or you shouldn’t join.
agreed, hiding at the mines is not participating.
But that’s unrealistic for many players, myself included. I have other responsibilities at home, for example two young kids, the oldest being three. I am basically on suicide watch every day so I can protect them from hurting themselves. By your logic, are you saying that someone who has home responsibilities should never get to play in a battleground because they cannot dedicate 100% of their focus?
Unethical, yes, against the rules, no. When you’re reported afk you’re given 2 minutes to engage in PVP combat to remove the report. So you are probably more afk than you realize.
As an aside I do this on 3 accounts at once and “defend” nodes while watching netflix. Like you I actually will “defend” the flag when it is attacked and it is completely unethical.
When I actually “play” my winrate is ~54% when I just “defend” my winrate is under 50%. This is why it’s unethical because you are relying on other people to carry you.
Not throwing shade alot of people do the same thing. Whats kind of funny to me about blizzard banning people for intentionally losing battlegrounds is that I set up a group to intentionally lose Eye of the Storm matches in actual tbc because Alliance seemed to have like a 0% winrate anyways and I just wanted my boots. So this is nothing new.
This doesn’t sound that bad. Somebody has to defend the nodes and a lot of people hate doing it. Running around with ghosted nodes doesn’t help the team either, like at all.
The only thing is if you are paying enough attention when someone does come and can focus enough to fight. Which you say you are. Sometimes people don’t pay any attention and a non-stealthy can walk right up to a flag and cap it without the person moving. That’s AFKing and against the rules. if you are doing call outs, fighting, and moving like you said then you are helping the team enough by being that nodes anchor and nobody is going to report you for that. They get to run around and kill stuff.
Now if you are getting the AFK flag that’s a concern because there’s more to it than you’re saying. Or if people are saying stuff like “Why is the paladin AFK at Stables?”
I think that is a reasonable viewpoint. Though I don’t know I completely agree that choosing to defend is asking for others to carry you. If you could see my character, they are not a boost and is very well geared, so while I am defending I am a strong target to defend and carry my own weight in my opinion. But I can definitely see a reasonable annoyance with someone who is just choosing to defend and is extremely low geared and unable to actually perform the duty.
I did say this above, but I feel confident that I have never received the “idle” debuff for being reported afk, which adds to my confusion for suspension.
Thank you for sharing your insight, this does open my eyes to a different way of thinking I didn’t recognize before.
Don’t you need multiple reports before they investigate? I suspect nefarious behavior was an issue for a while, and it caught up to ya.
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