battlegrounds are non champion points bud

It's part of the solo que experience bud, you just have to roll with it. A good team will work as one unit if they're good and decimate any uncordinated team every time. When I get in matches like that I just focus on not going negative and consider that a personal victory. They should just have premades against premades, and solo players against other solo players imo.

Players with 1000 CP are casuals, I can agree to that.

l2p, if you're good you can carry without a team, you got smashed by the drakes even...

I'm surprised to see that you were able to enter a battle grounds; I've been queuing for weeks now and haven't been able to enter. So I'm more interested in how you've managed that.

Zulera301 wrote: »

just cuz you have a lot of CP doesn't mean you're good at the game.

This is true. A long long time ago, I can still remember, Lvl CP 810 in my groups needing lots of help vs lvl CP 300 carrying everyone.

Consider how many players "power-lvl" vs those who actually take the time to understand and study the diverse mechanics for any aspect this game has to offer; therein lies the difference.

Qbiken wrote: »

Ysbriel wrote: »

Premades? how do you know they are premades?

Because when you enter high mmr BG's on your character and starts seeing the same 20 people in every single BG you play, you learn pretty fast who's premades and who's not.

I saw this in the last couple of days and I wasn't entirely sure it was the case, but now you confirm it. At one point I was basically playing with the same 10-12 people, which were clearly experienced, just we turned up in different teams, with some odd game in between where I got grouped with some other low CP players.

I only queue solo since BGs pop up fasts. I actually enjoy the experience of high MMR games, and even against pre-mades, and outnumbered - in a large portion of games I played my team had just 3 players against 2 full teams - I still push hard to do my best. In fact that's how I learn to play a character, being beaten, seeing the combos and thinking about counter-play, rather than slaughtering inexperienced players. Each time it feels fresh, although this is my 10th character.

Another quirk I saw is that even if I queued for random BG, I kept getting mostly relic and chaos ball games one after the other, and I think I got no deathmatch for 10-12 consecutive games at one point. I'm not sure how you are distributed, but my hypothesis is that flag and land grab games are picked less in their respective queues, in favor or deathmatch, so the former get filled with people who queue for random.

Since Monday when they patched the game and fixed the BG queue the waiting times were generally decent and they didn't seem to increase as I climbed on the leaderboard. In fact yesterday they were among the shortest I've seen for a while, at around 5 minutes, although I was higher than the days before. The only day when it was bad was Wednesday. For some reason I had to wait up to 12-15 minutes for games. There was something odd with the whole day, as Craglorn seemed emptier than usual when looking at the players in Belkarth and LFG messages on zone chat; my sales on guild stores were almost non-existent. I'm pretty certain there were fewer people online for some reason. I spend my wait time running around Craglorn and picking up nodes, so it doesn't go to waste.