Charax
Battleground Superstar
About me. Vanilla player that spent periods twinking and also untwinked in sub-max brackets until mid-WotLK (before I did the end game thing). I am really enjoying the return of Classic BGing.
I have lost touch with the sub-max level community so it shouldn’t surprise me if the meta has changed as the newer blood has introduced superior skills and tactics. As a returning veteran, I hope you twinkers can help me with a variety of things that I’ve seen.
Backpedaling
Many hunters try to maintain range by backpedaling. I’ll close the gap while they backpedal waiting for an instant cooldown to fire off at me. Now, back in the day, we’d view backpedaling with derision but since the vast majority of hunters, and twinks in general, employ this range maximize maneuver, I wouldn’t mind reading up about it in a guide.
KBing
An old school player like me was always fixated with the flags. I tend to be very vocal in calling out bad positioning, and non-objective based play. Often, those that feel slighted with my barrage point to how well they are doing on the scoreboard relative to me.
Has it now been accepted by the new community that KB scores are directly related to superior game play and this is the best way to help your team win? Should I alter my pursuit of EFC’s and chase down kills wherever they might be?
Cooldowns
I’ve seen many rogues and paladins blow high minute cooldowns (sprint/evasion, LoH) in non-critical situations (e.g., to chase someone down in a midfield fight absent of flags being around). Does this exert dominance over your opponent that they will do what it takes to own you and screw the flags?
FC’s and Capping
I’ve played thousands of BG’s and RBG’s, many as the FC (which, I no longer care to do). Absent voice comms, when I see my team in decent force in the opposition base and their resource bars are engaged, I view that as a potential opportunity to cap and try to relocate close to the capping position. I’ll move away if the offense seems to be dying off.
FC’s these days like to play the ToT game and many won’t move off of that until they get a “cap” warning (usually, not much advance warning). This often leads to successful repicks.
In one game, I asked the FC (whose name was “FC”) why he doesn’t get off his God damn perch after opponents repicked five times on him. He explained to me that I don’t understand the meta and he was voted Best FC for several years on some obscure site (probably this one) so he knew what he was doing.
Is this really the new meta? Should an FC just wait on his perch and not use his melon to reduce repick opportunities and only move his arse when his team announces in chat to move his arse?
Flakey Roles
We got our DPSers, healers and FC’s. Since I usually FC’d back in the day, I didn’t realize how flakey the modern day FC is. I criticize the perch nesters, and I criticize the guys that will meander through jumps to get to the cap, when a faster, more direct and safe path would have prevented the repick.
Many of these “new vet” FC’s detest my helpful advice. One guy said he was “high AF” (had “Stoned” in his name) and had no idea we returned a flag. Most ask, when the team is upset with all the repicks, “you want me to stand on the cap?”. No, there are other options than extreme measures. Some will get salty and say “you carry the flag next time” and then they proceed to practice jumps. Another FC, “trashform” or something like that, would hold the team hostage by holding onto the flag and not capping to try and force me to AFK out (I have a second account and don’t care when an FC gets triggered and has a temper tantrum).
That’s just my experience. Who do you think are the flakiest type players in a BG?
Summary
Yeah, it’s been awhile since I’ve done low level BGs. I don’t know if players are deploying new, high end strats and evolving the game play or if they’re just dumb AF millennials that don’t have the basic foundational skills down.
It’s been a blast nonetheless.
I have lost touch with the sub-max level community so it shouldn’t surprise me if the meta has changed as the newer blood has introduced superior skills and tactics. As a returning veteran, I hope you twinkers can help me with a variety of things that I’ve seen.
Backpedaling
Many hunters try to maintain range by backpedaling. I’ll close the gap while they backpedal waiting for an instant cooldown to fire off at me. Now, back in the day, we’d view backpedaling with derision but since the vast majority of hunters, and twinks in general, employ this range maximize maneuver, I wouldn’t mind reading up about it in a guide.
KBing
An old school player like me was always fixated with the flags. I tend to be very vocal in calling out bad positioning, and non-objective based play. Often, those that feel slighted with my barrage point to how well they are doing on the scoreboard relative to me.
Has it now been accepted by the new community that KB scores are directly related to superior game play and this is the best way to help your team win? Should I alter my pursuit of EFC’s and chase down kills wherever they might be?
Cooldowns
I’ve seen many rogues and paladins blow high minute cooldowns (sprint/evasion, LoH) in non-critical situations (e.g., to chase someone down in a midfield fight absent of flags being around). Does this exert dominance over your opponent that they will do what it takes to own you and screw the flags?
FC’s and Capping
I’ve played thousands of BG’s and RBG’s, many as the FC (which, I no longer care to do). Absent voice comms, when I see my team in decent force in the opposition base and their resource bars are engaged, I view that as a potential opportunity to cap and try to relocate close to the capping position. I’ll move away if the offense seems to be dying off.
FC’s these days like to play the ToT game and many won’t move off of that until they get a “cap” warning (usually, not much advance warning). This often leads to successful repicks.
In one game, I asked the FC (whose name was “FC”) why he doesn’t get off his God damn perch after opponents repicked five times on him. He explained to me that I don’t understand the meta and he was voted Best FC for several years on some obscure site (probably this one) so he knew what he was doing.
Is this really the new meta? Should an FC just wait on his perch and not use his melon to reduce repick opportunities and only move his arse when his team announces in chat to move his arse?
Flakey Roles
We got our DPSers, healers and FC’s. Since I usually FC’d back in the day, I didn’t realize how flakey the modern day FC is. I criticize the perch nesters, and I criticize the guys that will meander through jumps to get to the cap, when a faster, more direct and safe path would have prevented the repick.
Many of these “new vet” FC’s detest my helpful advice. One guy said he was “high AF” (had “Stoned” in his name) and had no idea we returned a flag. Most ask, when the team is upset with all the repicks, “you want me to stand on the cap?”. No, there are other options than extreme measures. Some will get salty and say “you carry the flag next time” and then they proceed to practice jumps. Another FC, “trashform” or something like that, would hold the team hostage by holding onto the flag and not capping to try and force me to AFK out (I have a second account and don’t care when an FC gets triggered and has a temper tantrum).
That’s just my experience. Who do you think are the flakiest type players in a BG?
Summary
Yeah, it’s been awhile since I’ve done low level BGs. I don’t know if players are deploying new, high end strats and evolving the game play or if they’re just dumb AF millennials that don’t have the basic foundational skills down.
It’s been a blast nonetheless.
