What do you consider GY Farming?

[Mialo]

The line you draw almost makes no difference in what will happen. They "might" have a chance they fight back, but they'll be dead before the 30 seconds of the Ress timer anyway. At first I didn't like the idea of controlling them at the GY, but if you can make 5 - 7 minute caps tops, every single time using this strategy, this will also benefit for the other faction. Less downtime to queue again bc they'll lose anyway. AFK'ing will make you wait for 15 mins minimum. This way we hold them only 5.



This strategy is actually more humain than waiting at midfield, still slaughtering them without them having a chance and delaying the game for maybe double the time, because they get a chance to go after our FC.



Conclusion: there is no line and if you want to draw it, make it from the big stump you can get on untill the Berserking hut for Alliance. This way they have plenty of chance to go D or run around.

 

[Aradiel]

I have a question. Do you think graveyard farming has increased ever since they remade the graveyards or decreased?

It obviously made it easier because you can't go anywhere from the GY. The reason they did this was to stop FCs from hiding in the GY. It was very difficult to kill all ten players in under 30 seconds and is a big part of why games lasted for so long back before the 25 minute limit was introduced. The redesign was to make games faster, and it worked.

 

[Trialaccountx]

My favorite way to farm is to stand on thier GY with a beast healer, and only attack those who attack me or my healer

If you wanna rez and run by, go for it

 

[R Prime]

To me GY farming is simple - an enemy is shooting into the GY area or actually standing in the GY area awaiting (dumb) respawns.



I can stomach it if the opposing team is running the flags. If they hold the flag to farm I /afk like a champ unless I am in a premade.



I used to try to tell randoms DO NOT REZ AND THEY WILL STOP FARMING but I no longer have the energy or compunction to try to educate the nonbelievers. I used to try to coordinate a larger group rezzing at once. I used to try coordinating a group to drop down from the GY all at once. Not worth the headache my friends.

 

[Omghax]

So I was just curious to what you guys think GY Farming is? IE: Where is the line between GY Farming and Midfield Farming



For example:



(Alliance perspective)

If Horde are behind the invisible black line(imo) then they are not GY Farming. Anything past that would be(imo) GY Farming.



I was curious if others agreed with me on this or not.



Or just what they considered "the line" between GY Farming and Midfield Farming.





EDIT: Thumbs up for using paint?

I think the most important part of this is that, if you are hemmed into your graveyard in the way described here, you can mount a concerted charge after a res and fight back because you res out of range.



If you res right into fire, then its GY farming.



Unless your FC or the EFC is running toward their GY shouldn't be there anyway.



The real issue is that there should have been a serious overhaul to these BGs to account for all the shady practices but Blizz doesn't care enough to bother. Like in pro sports, when something shady arises, the rules change to prevent/ discourage it. All we have is this community to attempt to discourage it. Just call people out in BGs. Sometimes you look like a dummy like I did when someone was just finishing off a FR defender that ran to the GY but everyone kept their cool and all was good.



Bob

 

[Turendil]

I used to try to tell randoms DO NOT REZ AND THEY WILL STOP FARMING but I no longer have the energy or compunction to try to educate the nonbelievers. I used to try to coordinate a larger group rezzing at once. I used to try coordinating a group to drop down from the GY all at once. Not worth the headache my friends.

That never works. People in pugs are so dumb that they keep rezzing on and on. One thing I understood is to save my nerves by leaving a bg and requeuing on an alt.