Just got my BG daily win in AB, spent a lot of my time constantly checking the map and while I am mounted and running towards another base to help, I use /bg chat to call out for the team, important info like “2 inc Stables”, “I can get LM”, “spin flag at BS, help is coming”
For some reason this seems to make some people very upset.
Multiple times I’ve had someone say “stop typing and actually play the game dude”… meanwhile I am typing while defending LM where I can use visibility of the map to call out what Horde is doing, or I’m typing while I rotate just by toggling autorun while mounted.
People are afraid to try or something, like they think effort and teamwork and communication makes them uncool.
in EVE, it is considered that for large operations, the commander shouldn’t even be on the battlefield. he should be in the station with the maps calling orders.
similarly we’ve seen at least one RWF guild have their raid leader not be in the actual raid and lead from outside. if WoW’s pvp finally gets to the place where it has leadership instead of ‘the blob’, it’d be a great experience for all.
not my fault that my class doesn’t buff others, I’m putting in a lot of effort and making a big impact with the tools I have
how do you think it feels when people have 2 whole minutes to buff before the match starts, yet they can’t even make the minimal effort to do that? it’s ridiculously lazy and downright sad to witness
In my experience of playing in BG’s … the ones who bark orders and then complain the most are generally on the bottom tier of all areas in the bg (heals/dps/most deaths/least kills).
I’m gonna watch stuff myself and play to have fun. If we win, cool … if not … then there’s always next time.
Don’t really need someone telling me what to do. If I were looking for that, I’d be doing RBG’s (which I’m aware are not available in WotLK classic … which is kind of the point).
i did not, i always accept queue right away. if i’m not ready to accept queue when it pops, i don’t queue until i’m ready.
no, i did not.
mediocre players often pad the scoreboard with all kinds of meaningless things that didn’t actually impact the outcome of the match. sniping KBs with executes or death gripping enemies right before they go down doesn’t make someone a good player.
if you want to know who is actually good you need to figure out how many dispels did the player have? how many CCs did they have? how many flag captures did they stop? did they stick around at BS to clean up the remnants of a failed push 7 vs 3, or did they get out once the outcome was certain to go reinforce the next base?
when you killed the last defender and start capping the base, do they stand on top of you doing nothing or do they position themselves to stall the reinforcements while you complete the cap? running to the GY to stall the rezzers while your teammate caps the base has been the obvious thing to do in Basin for like 17 years but 90% of players still haven’t figured that one out somehow
meanwhile these walking case studies of the Dunning-Kruger effect will tell you to get your “score” up before typing in BG chat, lol
what’s actually bad is seeing someone who has the option to sacrifice themselves to stop a flag from getting capped, but they run away instead and the base gets capped while a bunch of their teammates were 1 second away from rezzing.
good job, you avoided death and let the entire team down by doing so.
if you think high deaths is necessarily indicative of a bad player, or KBs and total DPS are indicative of good players, you are flat out wrong and you are probably exactly the kind of player that needs to look at the map more and the scoreboard less… or at a minimum read chat so that the guy helpfully “spamming /bg chat” (who is only doing that because you’re not looking at the map enough to begin with, lol) can help clue you in
but hey, who wants to look at maps or read chat when instead you could be popping your CDs and parsing on an oom healer just so you can pad your “score” while that healer gets a brand new 100% full mana bar and a free trip back to the base your teammates were about to capture… well done!
i’m going to continue typing instructions for the 90% of PUGs who are brain damaged and need someone to tell them exactly what to do, to have any hope of learning how to play BGs