Paladins and 1.9

[Concillian]

In any game involving equally skilled players, the team with the best communication and game plan wins.
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This is true.
However, I'm farily certain that MJ is discussing a case where you have two teams with :
~equally (high) skilled players
~equally (epic) geared characters
~equally (good) game plans
and
~equally (good) communication

When both teams are that organized, having a class that can last an extra 12 seconds that can dispel poly and freeze traps might be as big a deal as MJ makes it out to be. 12 seconds, when the GY resapwns come in less than 30 seconds, is almost a lifetime in this kind of PvP... and even without Decursive, CTRA can be setup to readily see who needs cleansed.

I think it's ignorant to dismiss MJ's opinion too quickly. He is obviously a very strategic player from his history in D2 and WoW. He hasn't, in my observation of his history, whined about challenges that could be overcome with strategy. He has made posts here, asking for counter strategies to situations like he mentions here, etc...

He is also playing on Tich, which is not just a PvP server, but one of the more 'hardcore' PvP servers, where I can imagine that it's probably pretty common to find very organized group in BGs.

Think about the abilities each side has access to in group PvP. Then think what each side would do in an ideally orchestrated strategy, and you come up with the conclusion that his perspective might be correct. Even if you've never been in a group that organized, so you aren't fully qualified to say that it definitively is or is not correct, you have to at least come to the conclusion that it could play out that way.