Noctus wrote: »

if u cant 1 vs x anymore then u just had good opponents. ppl lately inform themselves more about how to build before going into bg.

I wouldn't even say i can't 1 v X anymore. Just surviving even 1 v 1 was a struggle.

Very fair point an i noticed i wasn't steamrolling people as much. The damage just seemed much much higher, possibly due to better players chaining combos better and gearing better.

Aurielle wrote: »

You probably entered a higher MMR bracket and aren’t fighting potatoes anymore. Welcome to the club!

This, there are different tiers to BGs. Nothing formal but as you do them more you'll get more difficult opponents.

When you first start it's all new players figuring out their class and it's easy to dominate and go 20+-0 (heck, I've even done it as a magblade), then as you progress more you'll get more difficult opponents. I've noticed sometimes it's just one higher MMR player per team, sometimes it's all higher MMR players per team. I haven't figured it out.

Eventually you'll get all players who mostly spam battlegrounds and it's rare to have BGs death matches end with someone hitting 500 points. As you go up the tiers the composition of teams changes too, in the higher end it's almost all DKs, Sorcs and Wardens. You might struggle on your magblade if you're pure dps, I've seen some stamsorcs do well but generally they're more uncommon too.

Iskiab wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

You probably entered a higher MMR bracket and aren’t fighting potatoes anymore. Welcome to the club!

This, there are different tiers to BGs. Nothing formal but as you do them more you'll get more difficult opponents.

When you first start it's all new players figuring out their class and it's easy to dominate and go 20+-0 (heck, I've even done it as a magblade), then as you progress more you'll get more difficult opponents. I've noticed sometimes it's just one higher MMR player per team, sometimes it's all higher MMR players per team. I haven't figured it out.

Eventually you'll get all players who mostly spam battlegrounds and it's rare to have BGs death matches end with someone hitting 500 points. As you go up the tiers the composition of teams changes too, in the higher end it's almost all DKs, Sorcs and Wardens. You might struggle on your magblade if you're pure dps, I've seen some stamsorcs do well but generally they're more uncommon too.

Stam sorc is extremely common in the highest MMR matches during prime time, its the most common Stam class. There are no DKs.

Novelli and mystikkal both stream high MMR matches:

kylewwefan wrote: »

I think they answered your question with the MMR thing. I’d really like to know when it starts going back down and I can win a freaking round or a death match that doesn’t take the whole 15 minutes.

So far we don’t know that MMR can go down, other than indirectly through the group finder artificially lowering it the longer you’re in queue as the group finder becomes more flexible with finding you a match.

I, for one, prefer the longer matches. It makes the gameplay more tactical - rather than racing to 500 you have to make sure you’re not feeding kills. Many matches are won by just 3 or 3 kills.

Thogard wrote: »

Iskiab wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

You probably entered a higher MMR bracket and aren’t fighting potatoes anymore. Welcome to the club!

This, there are different tiers to BGs. Nothing formal but as you do them more you'll get more difficult opponents.

When you first start it's all new players figuring out their class and it's easy to dominate and go 20+-0 (heck, I've even done it as a magblade), then as you progress more you'll get more difficult opponents. I've noticed sometimes it's just one higher MMR player per team, sometimes it's all higher MMR players per team. I haven't figured it out.

Eventually you'll get all players who mostly spam battlegrounds and it's rare to have BGs death matches end with someone hitting 500 points. As you go up the tiers the composition of teams changes too, in the higher end it's almost all DKs, Sorcs and Wardens. You might struggle on your magblade if you're pure dps, I've seen some stamsorcs do well but generally they're more uncommon too.

Stam sorc is extremely common in the highest MMR matches during prime time, its the most common Stam class. There are no DKs.

Novelli and mystikkal both stream high MMR matches:

I see Mystikkal a lot, I think Novelli rings a bell. I don’t play BGs during prime time though, I didn’t know he/she was a stamsorc... maybe I see them on alts.

HEBREWHAMMERRR wrote: »

Iskiab wrote: »

Thogard wrote: »

Iskiab wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

You probably entered a higher MMR bracket and aren’t fighting potatoes anymore. Welcome to the club!

This, there are different tiers to BGs. Nothing formal but as you do them more you'll get more difficult opponents.

When you first start it's all new players figuring out their class and it's easy to dominate and go 20+-0 (heck, I've even done it as a magblade), then as you progress more you'll get more difficult opponents. I've noticed sometimes it's just one higher MMR player per team, sometimes it's all higher MMR players per team. I haven't figured it out.

Eventually you'll get all players who mostly spam battlegrounds and it's rare to have BGs death matches end with someone hitting 500 points. As you go up the tiers the composition of teams changes too, in the higher end it's almost all DKs, Sorcs and Wardens. You might struggle on your magblade if you're pure dps, I've seen some stamsorcs do well but generally they're more uncommon too.

Stam sorc is extremely common in the highest MMR matches during prime time, its the most common Stam class. There are no DKs.

Novelli and mystikkal both stream high MMR matches:

I see Mystikkal a lot, I think Novelli rings a bell. I don’t play BGs during prime time though, I didn’t know he/she was a stamsorc... maybe I see them on alts.

Yeah stam sorc is disgusting in BGs in the right hands but that can be said about any class really. But as far as variety definitely see warden and DK heavily in high MMR. Idk if it’s different on PC but magplars are very common on xbone as well for group play

In PC-NA I’d say they aren’t that common amongst healers. The most common healer is definitely warden.

I see some magplars dps, there’s one dude highpolicy or something like that who does well. I pay attention to classes on my own team moreso then others, but think stamplar are more common.

I usually play mornings or sometimes in the afternoon EST time zone. Things might be different during prime time, if I do BGs later in the day there are a lot of names I don’t recognize and I’ve even noticed a different playstyle.

Yea, it’s easy to see why. Permafrost and the bugs, but I think that’s a good thing. Every class should have one or two things that make people say ‘this is what defines my class’ and it doesn’t matter if it’s really powerful. Like a class defining ability that everyone uses and should use.