BG Wargames - We /can/ do them

[yasueh]

After levelling a few extra alts to make up the numbers (and wasting a lot of time getting them XP locked in my case. Thank-you Blizzard, you bastards), Dragonsblood and myself, with help from Bubblecrush (Bigtiny) managed to get into a 5v5 Warsong Gulch War Game:

A couple of notes:

• Both groups had a P2P in them
  
• Both groups were raids.
  
• When the BG queues popped, I was only clicking the buttons once. Clicking them again if they reappear may be what causes the queue to fail.
  

Say hello to nice fair F2P vs F2P games, and goodbye to getting farmed by 24s.





Now maybe with this working, newcomers to the game might actually get to see what PvP is really about on a trial, instead of just getting farmed, and I can get to work on a referee addon so they don't even need to twink to play BGs

Will be looking for guild signatures for <payed to free to play>

 

[dragonsblood]

here are the horde SS showing yasueh on ally side.

 

[Deadvulcano]

Thanks for solving this

Saved me from making tons of emails



Should test 10v10 next with YOU two as leaders

 

[Kincaide]

Wait, when you guys were talking about 5v5 in guildchat a little while ago, is this what you were referring to? I assumed you meant arena 5v5...

So if it worked with both parties being a raid, have you tried 6v6 and above?

 

[dragonsblood]

i only have 4 10's and yasueh has 5 10's so we havent tried anything above 5 since thats the minimum needed to que for WSG. we are going to rely on ap to test further numbers. yes this is what we was talking about.

 

[C O T U S]

good job, thank you for actually taking the effort to do this

 

[Jdoring]

i only have 4 10's and yasueh has 5 10's so we havent tried anything above 5 since thats the minimum needed to que for WSG. we are going to rely on ap to test further numbers. yes this is what we was talking about.

Im concerned that this strategy will not work if any of the toons are locked at 20 with their XP, thats what i heard from some 39 twink last time we tried this and failed

 

[dragonsblood]

i have 3 three 20's on different accounts if anybody wants to be the other two neeeded and then 5 more for ally side

 

[yasueh]

2 with 20s here, although I suppose I could always level the Spanish Inquisition to 20, now they can't stay at 10.



If it turns out we can't get WGs once we hit 20, there's always the option of doing it oldskool, and seeing how much we can get our hands on before we hit 19, then queuing WGs xp-unlocked

 

[l30t53dd6p]

I want to see this with atleast 6 lvl 20s in a raid and working. Anyways good job. I guess it's time to get this going and or a retry ^^ And ofc just ask if you need help on this, i'll just drop everything for trying this.

 

[Mialo]

And ofc just ask if you need help on this, i'll just drop everything for trying this.

Same.

 

[Mikian]

Why do you guys want to see 6v6 or more?



WarGames in WSG already works the minimum is 5v5, anything higher will work the same...

 

[Kincaide]

Why do you guys want to see 6v6 or more?



WarGames in WSG already works the minimum is 5v5, anything higher will work the same...

Because 5v5 is still two groups. 6v6 will prove it can work in a raid, and if it can work in a raid, then we can do 10v10.



We don't have any evidence one way or the other on whether it will allow more than 5 in. Heck, weeks ago I queued a group of 5 up for regular WSG while still configured as a raid, and it let us queue. I've been meaning to test that as well...

 

[dragonsblood]

both groups are in a raid and not party we couldnt que for the wargame while in a party it said group failed.

 

[yasueh]

It could also be that we got pops because our P2Ps weren't XP locked. I unlocked the P2P from my group, and that stopped one error message showing up.



That could be an issue if P2Ps are required in the groups for the games to pop (they didn't need to be leaders, as we also got pops with F2Ps leading).