Bit of a rant from me and I am sure many others have run into this issue with the new solo Battle Ground Blitz game mode.
Without players being walked through, or having certain things explained to them they are unintentionally “throwing” games, blocking progress, as well as getting abuse for simply not knowing what they are doing wrong.
I STRONGLY Believe that Blizzard need to explain to players in either a BG tutorial or guide before they can que for the Blitz. Similar to what Activision did with Warzone tutorial.
Things to focus on:
- What are win conditions and how they work. (Think silvershard mines and the cart that would score 1st if the teams are 1430/1500 - 1420/1500).
- Defending Flags AKA “Spinning”.
- Using Crowd Control to capture an objective (it might be a 2v1 on a flag and your team mate keeps breaking your sheep on the enemy).
- Peeling for your healers/tank.
- Using crowd control to stop enemy healers from keeping heals up during a team fight.
- Using the Ping System and calling out incommings.
- The importance of using and tracking power pickups (Bezerker/Healing/Cooldown Reset).
- The importance of rebuffing after dying.
- Dispelling and the dangers of dispelling DoTs that punish the player.
Im sure I have missed some things but would like to hear other peoples experiences and thoughts on this.
Tom