Hello fellow World of Warcraft Players, Blizzard and Other Readers.
BATTLEGROUND SHADOW SERVER THEORY
For weeks I have been queuing solo and grouped and I noticed that when I lead a group with my friend whom play on a different server the tactics in all battlegrounds suddenly change. Here is a few examples:
Example 1: Isle of Conquest. Normally when I am alone, Alliance will go for Docks and Hangar but start out Docks fully and then go Hangar after. ----- When I queue with my friend everyone goes Hangar and then proceeds to take Mid.
Example 2: Wintergrasp. Normally when I am alone, Alliance and Horde both go to Broken Temple (North Western Base) ----- When I queue with my friend Alliance and Horde both go for Sunken Temple.
Example 3: Ashran Normally when I am alone, Alliance go “Backdoor” meaning sneaking behind the horde base and going directly for the boss kill (If they fail they will 90% of the time take mid and win) ----- When I queue with my friend Alliance and Horde both go mid directly.
This may be a conspiracy theory but since there is no battlegroups there must be a different system separating people. I heard from multiple people that there is a form of matchmaking system in place and it is responsible for making premade groups go against premade groups. My thought is, maybe just maybe, the system has become flawed and premades is happening against regular queuers. However I do not know this, its all speculation. I think this system works as battlegroups, but I think it is set to player specific instead of server-wide. That you may be randomly picked for whatever battlegroup you are in when you create you character.
I have no hard evidence like code to back this up but I do have my experience. Since I made my character I had a good 70-90% win rate in a day overall, I could sometimes play 10 and win 9 of them. Now yesterday I was traveling, I didn’t get to play Warcraft. Now today I log in and queue BG all the Epic BGs I get is Wintergrasp Attacker against insane teams which floor our team easily. I do 3 Wintergrasp until the next one pops up which is a Brawl (Southshore VS TarrenMill) We don’t get fully floored but we do get wiped several times. One of the things one of the players noted was that we had 3 players who died over 10 times and doing quick math 10x3=30x5=150 (20% of all of our deaths was caused by 3 players) This wasn’t a surprise to me… Until I saw they all were fully gladiator geared, begging the question, were they botting or were they just that bad? Or maybe they were doing it on purpose, I noticed one of them continuously heroic leaped into the center of the horde group and so, I was wonder why that is. I didn’t get it really and still don’t, he did not have to do that.
Anyways this is plenty of reason for me to think there is battlegroups they are just not called battlegroups. Its fishy to me because today I had a 100% lose rate, not a single win which is not a regular thing since I never had a single day where I lost less than 40% of the battlegrounds, yes there were days that was majority lose but never 100%. People don’t turn bad over night.
So this is going to be my investigation into this whole issue and I would like to hear if anyone else have similar experiences like these.