Played 3 AB’s sorry that is all the time i have.
Played all 3 as pugs, no premade
Played VS 1 pug and 2 pre mades
Lost to the pug, our team just could not play together, we sucked, bad terrible horribad, bad luck in the queue, it happens.
No one would cooperate, there was a massive argument over who was leading the bg and quite a few had the Im just here for me attitude.
we won the two matches VS the premades
calling them premades because at least 10 tags were from same server/guild
We won those two.
Everyone watched text comms even though everyone did not go into chat.
A pug discord was offered before match start
People called out incomings
People made efforts to buff
I tried to heal, AB goes fast, not always possible to do effectively
i did a lot of prowling, guarding, flaming up unhappy rogues, knocking out would be cappers, spammed a ton of roots and dying.
The two premades kept putting too many eggs in one basket
When they would mass up and rush something hard, we would just fade back while we had a ninja cap in progress.
They did try to GY us after we lost stables once, but most everyone listened when it was called out do not rez at GY, and most wandered away from the GY over to where we had a cap in progress.
One guy insisted on rezzing in the GY, then got all bent out of shape and quit the bg.
We let the raid leader lead, and agreed to just stick to the orders and call outs and not argue or turn it into a drama fest.
Both wins, our goal was simple, just get and maintain 3
If they pushed hard on one, which they did in both BG’s just trade it away for another, we knew they out geared us and we could not sustain a massive brawl.
But they were cocky, and figured they had come in to pugstomp a disorganized mess, and we simply refused to give them that.
You can win, it just depends on how bad you want to play together and not fight and not argue over who is leading.
Of course if you just want to queue thinking, well im just going to go in, chill, do my own thing, you are going to lose, you have already made sure of it.
Last 2 groups i was in had a number of the same people, queues were popping very fast.
That worked to my advantage, cause they were people who wanted to actually play AB and work for it.