Breakfast Topic: Have rated battlegrounds met your expectations?

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3-08-2011 @ 8:22AM

fionaholder said...

I was very disappointed as I have always casually played battlegrounds and saw them as a method of getting some recognition for doing well. I know it is not really straightforward to work out who has done well in a battleground, but it should be possible to hash together killing blows/damage/heals/objectives into some kind of score and award people conquest points and rating accordingly, say for the top 25% of participants.

Maybe that could sit alongside the fully arranged rated BGs, and the proper ones would award significantly more rating and points, but us casual BG players would still get a few conquest here and there.

I am GM of a good raiding guild, that rarely does PvP and we would really struggle to find 10 people on a non-raiding night. A few of us do arena and are passionate about PvP and it is frustrating to be locked out of the content in this way.

3-08-2011 @ 8:34AM

Firestyle said...

My sentiments precisely.

3-08-2011 @ 8:37AM

Urza said...

Indeed. I was disappointed that rated wasn't for everyone.

3-14-2011 @ 9:56AM

Dragoniel said...

Exactly.

I'm a lone wolf. I don't go around with 9 other people to do PvP, even though I play the game pretty much purely for the PvP aspect of the game. In this expansion nothing has changed for me - I simply don't play rated battlegrounds.

I was hoping for a solo queue for rated. As it turned out, it's just another arena thing for elite guilds.

3-08-2011 @ 9:59AM

loop_not_defined said...

Rated BGs were never intended to be for everyone. A lot of the proposals I see for "improving" rated BGs involve nothing more than turning them into normal BGs + better rewards. For example, fionaholder's idea involves taking scores - scores that largely already existed in BGs - and then reward more. Slap on the "Rated" prefix and we're good to go.

Dragoniel, I honestly cannot tell if you're being sarcastic or serious. The idea of a lone wolf being rewarded for ignoring teamwork is just...too ridiculous.

3-08-2011 @ 7:37PM

Lemons said...

@loop_not_defined

It's not about ignoring teamwork at all. In PvP I'm pretty much a lone wolf as well. I haven't really found a lot of people I like to PvP with. Hell, I can barely get a decent arena team together, but I can assure you that when I do play with others everything I do is to advance the team. I'm not in the business of wasting others time, and I wouldn't queue up for a rated BG simply just to run around and gank aimlessly.

So it's not about not being a team player...it's about having a hard time finding a team to play on in the first place.

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