Quote Originally Posted by Divinemights View Post
If you're referring to the two players I think you are, they're not part of a premade.
It’s just a hardcore PvP player teaming up with a friend who’s more of a casual, likely just grinding for the 450 weekly points.
There’s no Discord, no coordination via linkshell — just basic awareness, solid map knowledge, and exploiting the weaknesses of the typical Horde Stampede mindset through smart target selection and positioning.
Heh. I never said that they were part of a premade. I just wanted to put out there how they didn't need to rely on anyone else. That's all

Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
...Lolwut? Premades enforce "horde mentality" more than anything, you obey the DRK in the 4/8-stack making the calls or else.

Personal skill expression/impact feels like the actual illusion because premades either spoon-feed you a win or steamroll you into a loss, there's no real sense of contribution or countering to be made.
Horde mentality is the meta, premades or not. With the exception of secure, there's only objective to go for. There's hardly any reason to split from the pack.
That doesn't mean you have to follow the rules. You can easily choose to break them and play your way.
Contribution? Probably true...probably. Countering? You can probably punish the whole horde strategy that everyone relies on with a very small group in secure. Can't same the same in the other maps.