Full Premades In Lowbie Warzones

Have you done it yourself, though, Kevin? I just want to hear how people do from the folks who actually do, kind of behind the scene look, you know? Is it voice or is it ToT? And stuff.

Yeah I've ran with premades in 60s. You get on voicecomms, prioritize your targets, marks them and take them out. You can almost always count on any team not having a good tank, most tanks perma guard their healer and never utilize their cc and taunts completely. Take out the squishy ranged dps (mercs, snipers, dps sorcs) then the squishy melee (maras, PT) and finally the juggs, tanks and healers. It is important for the burst classes to save some of their procs to unleash at the same time so the damage can't be healed through. For example, the vanguard will hold their cell burst, launch two grenades, and while the timers lineup the sniper will laze target, penetrating blasts, then takedown/battle-focus/cellburst at the same time. That will net a guaranteed 30-40k or more damage and instakill just about anybody.

If they are coordinated you'll have to use more advanced tactics. Like harpoon the tank away from the healer and burn the healer. Or separate two healers that are cross healing. It also helps if you know the team, if they have an hero DPS that always posting big numbers prioritize them.

If the healer and tank are in lockstep, swaping guard and heals to your targets, and you have pressure classes then tank tunnel. Tanks, like everyone, have little mitigation to internal/elemental damage. DoT them up and AoE them since the tank will take 150% of the damage.

I'm an average PvPer at best but this some of the things I've figured out.

The majority of premade's I'm in are spur of the moment: we just see who's on in our Friend list and team up. We play whichever character we feel like at the moment and at best queue with 1 healer, at worst no heals, but we never stack Fotm's or double heals, because quite honestly it makes for lame games. We want challenging matchups played with our friends, win or lose; we're not interested in stacking the deck in our favor. When we get in Mumble or TS most of our strategy consists of backing up nodes or sometimes focusing a particular target. Beyond that we don't coordinate -- the hardcore playstyle you described earlier has its place in ranked, but in regs we're just here to relax and have fun.

That's really interesting! Thank you for sharing.

Tbh, I am rolling in the aisles that someone would want to pretend to be me.

Not all premades sit there and coordinate targets and strategize, etc. For instance, last night we had a pretty interesting conversation about what caused American corporations to shift their focus towards short-term goals and stock valuation, and the impact that is having on American innovation and our ability to compete internationally.

Other times we just discuss Taco Bell.

As a very new PvP player. 18 lvl 60 PvE toons and just rolled 1st PvP today. I may have a more reasonable take on this.

When you are first starting out, you are supposed to die a lot!.

I am not in a PvP guild and i queue solo. Unitil you get the gear needed that is the reality. I play a vanguard DPS. I get focused as soon as i enter and as soon as i respawn. Maybe because i am playing a tanking class and it is easier if you get those toons off the field asap, but when i get focused, i just get back in the match as quick as i can. My skill level is not the same as it is in PvE. Yes it is frustrating, I am a very good PvE player. I have those skills. I do not however have many PvP skills at all. I do not fault those that focus me and hunt me down. They are simply better players than me at this time. I will get better and i will have more fun as I do.

So, just relax, play the game. Sometimes it will be fun. sometimes it will not. Play more and get better. that is my plan.

@Evolutionism

As a member of Red octagon I'm sick and tired of getting my butt kicked by Blue octagon. what I want to know is when will we get more people in Red octagon so we can Q up against blue and kick your Pubby behinds back to the login screen.

Signed,
One and Lonely RO

Mr. Z

Haha, this post is hilarious and still with so much truth in it ... Only true losers premade in regs.

The offer stands for you as well.

You become a loser if you win warzones? I've been doing it wrong this whole time! I need to start losing to be one of the cool kids then.