When I first heard that they were going to make rated BGs I was pretty excited. I thought, FINALLY! Blizzard is going to do something about the players in BGs that are: AFK, solo charge into 6 opposing players every time they rez, and people that try to chase down that healer they can’t kill for more than half the fight while others are actually trying to complete the BG objectives.
Don’t get me wrong. People pay their money to play this game just like I do and they can do whatever they want with their time. I just don’t want to be forced to do something (BGs for honor with the mentioned people) to get better gear just so I can do something I like with an acceptable level of success (arena, duels, and world PvP).
I was hoping that the rated BGs would be just like BGs now, except everyone would get a rating and match making value added like arena and get matched into random teams of people with like values. Value would go up if you win and down (maybe at a lower amount) if you lose. I don’t see why this is a bad thing.
It looks like now we will only be getting the option of making premades to do rated BGs.
My server (Aegwynn) is not high in population, only a small percentage of the people seem to care about PvP at all despite being a PvP server, and of that small percentage only half of them have any real skill in PvP. What that means is getting a “good” group of people together to do a rated BG will be very hard. The nightmare of having to put these groups together and manage them is just awful.
I can see it now, people dropping after 1 BG and then having to wait 30 minutes to replace them, to only have to replace another because it took so long to replace the other person. Before you tell me I’m wrong, I can say this happens when we currently try to pug raids on Aegwynn. I see trade littered with LFM spam for the same group for long periods of time.
Not to mention that this is going to directly compete with the PUG raids and new heroic PUGs. Though there aren’t as many heroic PUGs because you CAN queue for them now. Thank you, Blizz for the heroic queue. I am being serious when I say that it saved the PvE side of the game for me. Without the rated BG queue I can see trade filled with LFM because a group needs another healer in their rated BG group because they lost one because the healer’s guild decided they needed him for a raid or heroic.
So why would you not just make it to where a player or small group of players can queue for a rated BG and get matched with players of around the same value? I don’t know the programming involved, but I’m sure it could be done. You have to already do this with matching team vs. team matches right? You’re not just going to let the high skilled / geared players just stomp a freshly dinged 85 group, right?