Hmm, I had very good experience with random pick up groups in Warsong Gulch.
Of course one is in disadvantage against a thightly organized guild all on teamspeak, but as long as someone had pervious experience with the CTF playing mode on other games like e.g. UT2004 one should feel immediatly at home without a great amount of talking.
Like Mongo pointed out, one should't make the mistake to get stuck hunting down individual players, the flagbearer being an exception of course, but focus more on disrupting the enemys movement and postioning.
1.) You will always get automated system messages who has the flag, so it is easy to know who should get supported or tried to be stopped at any given moment.
2.) Move a lot. Standing in one place is generally a bad idea, as you wil become fodder for rogues and mages stunning, sheeping, forsting and killing people to disrutpt enemy positioning. When you move around it is much harder for the enemy to disrupt your positioning.
As a priest I would often run into the enemy base, shield up, silence the occasional enemy mage to prevent sheeping and frost novaing, hit psychic scream to scatter the enemy, while another player who follows a bit behind grabs the flag and runs with it. Then i will mindflay any pursuers to slow them down. If I get killed in the process, I simply rezz at my base and run from there the to support the flagbearer with heals, or once again psychic scream to scatter pursuers or mind flay them.
If you find yourself in the middle of the playing field try to clear the way of potential enemys that might hinder your own flagbearer on his way home or might support an enemy flagbearer.
Once again move! You will find yourself mounting and dismounting often for quick postion changes. CTF is more a game of quick wits and common sense, than one of deep strategy.
Of course one is in disadvantage against a thightly organized guild all on teamspeak, but as long as someone had pervious experience with the CTF playing mode on other games like e.g. UT2004 one should feel immediatly at home without a great amount of talking.
Like Mongo pointed out, one should't make the mistake to get stuck hunting down individual players, the flagbearer being an exception of course, but focus more on disrupting the enemys movement and postioning.
1.) You will always get automated system messages who has the flag, so it is easy to know who should get supported or tried to be stopped at any given moment.
2.) Move a lot. Standing in one place is generally a bad idea, as you wil become fodder for rogues and mages stunning, sheeping, forsting and killing people to disrutpt enemy positioning. When you move around it is much harder for the enemy to disrupt your positioning.
As a priest I would often run into the enemy base, shield up, silence the occasional enemy mage to prevent sheeping and frost novaing, hit psychic scream to scatter the enemy, while another player who follows a bit behind grabs the flag and runs with it. Then i will mindflay any pursuers to slow them down. If I get killed in the process, I simply rezz at my base and run from there the to support the flagbearer with heals, or once again psychic scream to scatter pursuers or mind flay them.
If you find yourself in the middle of the playing field try to clear the way of potential enemys that might hinder your own flagbearer on his way home or might support an enemy flagbearer.
Once again move! You will find yourself mounting and dismounting often for quick postion changes. CTF is more a game of quick wits and common sense, than one of deep strategy.