Solo-Queue rated Battlegrounds ARE COMING (patch 10.2)

[Lorgar Aurelian]

So after doing a bunch of them, being a healer seems to really blow. Been doing abunch of dou queuing with my pally and the match making seems to have such a wide range that getting any where is impossible and we’re sick in a ping pong hell.

Then on my Shaman I hit 1800 easily in less then half the games and am wondering if I should bother going higher just for the sake of it as I don’t want the rewards above the set.

[Big Thanks]

So after doing a bunch of them, being a healer seems to really blow. Been doing abunch of dou queuing with my pally and the match making seems to have such a wide range that getting any where is impossible and we’re sick in a ping pong hell.

Then on my Shaman I hit 1800 easily in less then half the games and am wondering if I should bother going higher just for the sake of it as I don’t want the rewards above the set.

If you keep pushing with your shammy im sure you can get even farther IF it was that easy of an experience...it WILL be as easy as that experience going forward
Like Ace (demon hunter streamer) says...is just a numbers game.
Meaning, if you keep playing you keep increasing rating.

[SinR]

My experience on my Warlock:

0-7? I did enough to get the Weekly done last week and I probably won't do it this week because it felt like a glorified Random BG.

Edit: Affliction Lock, full PVP gear (some WPVP pieces, rest Honor). Tried doing callouts, stuff like that, nobody seemed to listen. Nobody fought on flags or carts, everyone just seemed to fuck off and do their own thing

[Lorgar Aurelian]

If you keep pushing with your shammy im sure you can get even farther IF it was that easy of an experience...it WILL be as easy as that experience going forward
Like Ace (demon hunter streamer) says...is just a numbers game.
Meaning, if you keep playing you keep increasing rating.

Ya I think I could likely break 2000 easy if I keep going so its just a question in rather I want to try a different class given that I don't care about any thing I can get above 1800.

[Big Thanks]

Ya I think I could likely break 2000 easy if I keep going so its just a question in rather I want to try a different class given that I don't care about any thing I can get above 1800.

What happened to me was:

I got 1 or 2 lucky winstreaks which increased my MMR like CRAZY!
Meaning even if i lost at these high MMRs i would lose zero rating...this happened a lot...and i mean a lot of games i lost and lost nothing.

Also try to queue when twitch streamers are streaming, those are some high value hours with high MMR games.
NEVER QUEUE at 6 AM and early hours of the day when no one is playing!!!!!
I did this once and...i got placed on a 1600 rating game as 2k rating myself...i lost 25 points that day

Those are all my tips.

[Meowtwo]

Its crazy inflated atm AND solo shuffle is capped at 2.2k. So its by far the easiest way to get 1600 for free tier piece (you can also get the pve one if you choose) and get the 1800 set.

It however is just random bgs with rating.

And im really unhappy that they cannibalized solo shuffle with a rating cap to push blitz as arenas are so much more fun than bgs.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

0-7? I did enough to get the Weekly done last week and I probably won't do it this week because it felt like a glorified Random BG.

Having done ranked 5v5 SPvP in GW2 for several seasons, yeah you're going to get long win streaks. The matchmaking is not perfect.

Edit: Affliction Lock, full PVP gear (some WPVP pieces, rest Honor). Tried doing callouts, stuff like that, nobody seemed to listen. Nobody fought on flags or carts, everyone just seemed to fuck off and do their own thing

Yup. I have done 50 games thus far and have only seen really coordinated groups in two matches.

It however is just random bgs with rating.

I can't think of a PvP game where there was any reason to do random BGs/unrated matches over rated, when rated gives you more rewards.

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And im really unhappy that they cannibalized solo shuffle with a rating cap to push blitz as arenas are so much more fun than bgs.

I do not find arenas fun. It's a fighting game where it's all about the micro level technical execution of the combat, but without the cool presentation of a real fighting game. You instead have to put up with the flaccid knetic feedback of WoW's camera positioning and the combat animations, as well as the cluttered UI. Battlegrounds are more engaging as it is more of a simulation of a real battle, which an MMO is better at presenting, though still 10 vs 10 is not as grandiose as the unrated only epic BGs, let alone humongous pitched open world battles that WoW once had.

[fatal]

similar experience, but as destro. Melee just instantly zerg me. Maybe I can actually get a cast off once I get the precog gem.

[Nightshade711]

After like 200ish games & hitting 2400 I do gotta say I like that blitz exists (as a DPS).

Though there is a lot of tuning that needs to be done imo:

Preservation Evokers & Mistweaver monks are practically impossible to catch if they get flag so if your team doesn’t have one, you’re basically SOL. This reminds me of veng DHs throughout Legion when demonic trample wasn’t nerfed.

And for some reason rogues can cap bases when using cloak of shadows, and deathstalker increases the duration of it. I capped a base with 3 mages and an aff lock present and all they could do was watch.
It would be exactly like letting a Paladin cap the flag with BoP - but worse because you can actually dispel BoP

Also blitz wins don’t count towards the vicious saddle for some reason, but they do count towards the seasonal non-gladiator mount.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Preservation Evokers & Mistweaver monks are practically impossible to catch if they get flag so if your team doesn’t have one, you’re basically SOL. This reminds me of veng DHs throughout Legion when demonic trample wasn’t nerfed.

As a holly pally this has been my bane and I’m pretty sure the main reason I’ve been stuck ping ponging between 1600-1700, taking up a slot for one of the broken classes and lugging my slow ass around hoping some one will run the flag cause I reasonable can’t has been a pain

My ele shaman on the other hand has hit 1900 in less then half the games and I’m just fillling my bars on reset at this point for the conquest set transmog as I don’t care about any rewards above 1800.

[Big Thanks]

After like 200ish games & hitting 2400 I do gotta say I like that blitz exists (as a DPS).

Though there is a lot of tuning that needs to be done imo:

Preservation Evokers & Mistweaver monks are practically impossible to catch if they get flag so if your team doesn’t have one, you’re basically SOL. This reminds me of veng DHs throughout Legion when demonic trample wasn’t nerfed.

And for some reason rogues can cap bases when using cloak of shadows, and deathstalker increases the duration of it. I capped a base with 3 mages and an aff lock present and all they could do was watch.
It would be exactly like letting a Paladin cap the flag with BoP - but worse because you can actually dispel BoP

Also blitz wins don’t count towards the vicious saddle for some reason, but they do count towards the seasonal non-gladiator mount.

Agreed

With everything you said

Even the rogue thing (my class)

Easy fix: Make flags take 2 more seconds to cap...or even 3.
From 4 seconds to 6 or 7.
Make monks also not able to teleport when holding flag.

[Becket]

nerf that piece of crap spec of Frost Mages.....

[DechCJC]

And for some reason rogues can cap bases when using cloak of shadows, and deathstalker increases the duration of it. I capped a base with 3 mages and an aff lock present and all they could do was watch.
It would be exactly like letting a Paladin cap the flag with BoP - but worse because you can actually dispel BoP

Not saying there's not tuning needed (I barely even play atm), but casters can still melee rogues during cloak if they need to interrupt a flag cap.