Blizz: Rated Battlegrounds - Random Please?

#0 - Aug. 24, 2009, 7:47 p.m.

Blizzard,

I was wondering if you have played around with the idea of making rated bgs soloable? in other words, it is difficult to even maintain teams, having to wait and rely on other players all the time? It would be a lot of fun for casual players if rated battlegrounds were not premade team based. People may say they do not want to go into a rated bg with pugs, but in my opinion, there will be an increase of players who actually will try and win anyway, and it would be equal for everyone. Sort of like your rated random team in warcraft 3. Premade vs premade with such big teams may not turn out as many teams as one would like i would think, sort of like big guilds that there are usually only a few of that make it very far in PvE situations.

Can we make rated Battlegrounds where we can just queue in without a team where we can just jump in any time to play, pretty please?

I would love to be able to log on anytime and jump in.

Is this possible for 2v2 arena as well, since it doesnt count for the highest gear anyway? Perhaps if its 2v2 random, then allow the rating to purchase the best gear? :)

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Bornakk

#4 - Aug. 24, 2009, 8:05 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Blizzard,

I was wondering if you have played around with the idea of making rated bgs soloable? in other words, it is difficult to even maintain teams, having to wait and rely on other players all the time? It would be a lot of fun for casual players if rated battlegrounds were not premade team based. People may say they do not want to go into a rated bg with pugs, but in my opinion, there will be an increase of players who actually will try and win anyway, and it would be equal for everyone. Sort of like your rated random team in warcraft 3. Premade vs premade with such big teams may not run out as many teams as one would like i would think, sort of like big guilds that there are usually only a few of that make it very far in PvE situations.

Can we make rated Battlegrounds where we can just queue in without a team where we can just jump in any time to play, pretty please?

I would love to be able to log on anytime and jump in.

Is this possible for 2v2 arena as well, since it doesnt count for the highest gear anyway? Perhaps if its 2v2 random, then allow the rating to purchase the best gear? :)

A lot of things get considered along the way but we need to make it work the best way possible. Remember you will get points only for winning and overall it's much more likely a pre-made group will smash a pug, so making people setup groups ahead of time will help even the playing field a bit.

Bornakk

#6 - Aug. 24, 2009, 8:11 p.m.

Q u o t e:

Bornakk just one question - Is it currently planned to take a horrendous amount of time to achieve rating via BG's compared to Arenas? I'm fine with it taking a bit longer - But are we talking +2-3 rating per game or what?

Early to ask for details, I know.

And you get the expected response, we don't have an answer for that. We are still working out the system and your answer won't come until there has been a fair amount of testing on a functional system.