Horde HK Farming in AV - Exploit?

[DamaxXIV]

Tonight I was running Alterac Valley to gear one of Alliance alts since AV has such a high win rate for Ali. At about 12:30 am EST, we charged to Galv as per usual to be met by the entire horde team holding up in Galv's bunker and farming us for HK. It was obvious that the group was premade due to their organization. I left the bg early and took the deserter penalty because I was not ready to spend an hour or more racking up my repair bill and getting farmed. I wait my 15 minutes, q again, and the same thing. An organized, likely premade Horde group farming for HK. Is this exploiting and should players be reported?

TL;DR - Are premade Alterac Valley farming for HK considered an exploit?

[Henako]

I've done this. Usually, all it takes is a couple people yelling "DEFEND GALV" at the beginning, and most of the team will defend Galv. It's fantastic.

My point is, no, it's not an exploit. It's called a strategy.

[Didacticus Syntacticus]

In what way could holing up in the captain's bunker and killing everyone who comes in POSSIBLY be considered an exploit?

And how organized do you have to be to do that? All you need is one person who gets the idea started and a few people to go along with it.

[Somarlane]

It is no more an exploit than queuing for a specific battleground for a perceived benefit for your side is an exploit.

[solvexx]

I don't see how getting some mates and queuing for the same BG could ever be considered an exploit.

[Zues]

The MoP babies are too much lol

[aeuhe4yxzhds]

You dont lose durability in PvP as you do in PvE. So why do you mention repair?

[Shadowdance]

you're the biggest moron on the planet, and fuck you mmo champ in advance for the infraction.


Mod Edit: Infracted for flaming. Don't post like this.

[solvexx]

Tonight I was running Alterac Valley to gear one of Alliance alts since AV has such a high win rate for Ali. At about 12:30 am EST, we charged to Galv as per usual to be met by the entire horde team holding up in Galv's bunker and farming us for HK. It was obvious that the group was premade due to their organization. I left the bg early and took the deserter penalty because I was not ready to spend an hour or more racking up my repair bill and getting farmed. I wait my 15 minutes, q again, and the same thing. An organized, likely premade Horde group farming for HK. Is this exploiting and should players be reported?

TL;DR - Are premade Alterac Valley farming for HK considered an exploit?

You don't even lose durability for PvP lol.
Instead of complaining, get some mates and do the same thing back.

[Zoaric]

Pfffthahaha... I loved doing this back when I PvP'd, an actual PvP battle rather than
a PvE race.

No, it's not an exploit- it's part of the way the game was meant to be played. As
others have said, all it takes is a few people saying "Def Galv! Def Galv = Win" and
most of the team will go, set up, and unleash hell. Other team can counter by rezzing
and all going in at once to fight them mano-e-mano. Or just down towers and go after
the boss...

[zorkuus]

TL;DR - Are premade Alterac Valley farming for HK considered an exploit?

No. Next question...

[CasCrow]

You dont lose durability in PvP as you do in PvE. So why do you mention repair?

This is false. You do take durability damage in pvp.

[NuLogic]

Nope you can even 36 man multi-box and cause insane lag. Was pretty cool how we won at the end though.

[blackblade]

I've done this. Usually, all it takes is a couple people yelling "DEFEND GALV" at the beginning, and most of the team will defend Galv. It's fantastic.

My point is, no, it's not an exploit. It's called a strategy.

Yes. This.

An exploit would be clipping through a wall to get places the game doesn't intend you to go.

[Vasilisa]

This is not an exploit. It was stated few times by devs when this thing was far more popular then it is now.

[FuxieDK]

LOL... Complaining about repair bill from a BG..

[Deleted]

QQ alis losing at AV, must be a hack!

[FuxieDK]

This is false. You do take durability damage in pvp.

It's NOTHING compared to PvE..

Last time I did AV, my repair bill was something like 27c.. Yes, copper....

[Scully]

Its usually an honor kill farm group in vent when they are organized. Did a lot of AV/IoC spawn trap groups for my 250k hk achievement.

They all just sit in vent and hit AV queue at a countdown and most will get the same queue. I think blizz should address this, its really not fun for the opposing side, you cant fight back unless you also just happen to being doing the exact same thing. Its a boring experience for 40 players farming, miserable expierence for the 20 or so enemies that are not bots being camped. Its clearly against what they want since they removed the premade groups a long time ago.

[Canderous1]

Omg alli no 6 min win?

Must be horde exploit? They killing us wtf?!!


and to the guy above me.... AV is never fun for the horde side unless you do something like this.

Its a boring experience for 40 players farming, miserable expierence for the 20 or so enemies that are not bots being camped

you just hit the nail on the head describing horde AV in once sentence.