Yes Aeq, I know those kind of situations. The blame is of course on the leader. As I said earlier:
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leader being afk/dumb/feeder is the MINORITY of the cases
In this case he was dumb, for not reacting to enemy's moves. And you must agree those kind of situations are not happening in the majority of battlegrounds. You see, my point is: there is a certain kind of hierarchy at the battleground, and it is there for a reason. You misunderstood me, I wasn't saying that you have to always listen to the leader, when you see that he's obviously unexperienced or he's missing something. But we have chat available at battlegrounds. When you see a gap in enemy's strategy, you inform your team about it. I've been in many battlegrounds, when while attacking mid someone saw that inners are empty. He's reporting that fact on the chat, and the leader reacts with notice. If he doesn't - that means he's a bad leader. Again, in majority of the cases - you listen to the leader. If you see that he's AFK/dumb/feeder - then you try to contribute as much as you can, based on your own experience.
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Xylo never mentioned anything about being assigned to a ladder. At least I didn't find anything. Maybe I've overread.
He only mentioned he got bored by always defending a ladder and wants to go outside now.
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Everytime I'm assigned to be at the inner wall I tell the leader I won't do it
And when he's openly stating in chat that he won't do it, that just encourages the rest of the team to question the leader. So in effect, noone will stay there. Cause he said no, so why can't I, etc etc.
The most ridiculous thing about this battleground is this simple fact: people won't stay at inners, then the enemy exploits that fact, wins, and then everybody, I mean everybody is like 'ya noobs didn't stay inner, noob team, what a waste of time' while they were the ones that went outside to pvp. Or do anything else but protecting inners.
This BG is about contribution, and I know that defending inners may be boring and doesn't give you much contribution points - but man, you were assigned to it, swallow your pride and take one for the team, because it is the single most important thing to do during the defence round.