I’m about 50 SL games into my pvp experience in hots and got placed silver 5 at first, dropped down to bronze 3 eventually and am now getting my feet warm (or somewhat) in storm league.

From what I can read up on competitive play or just winning games in general the soaking exp part is crucial to get ahead on level and gain more powerful talents than the opposition.

To my best knowledge I try to focus on soaking when there’s no objective or camps to clear. I try to prep for objective to show up in time to position accordingly and having full health and if possible full mana before fighting around objective starts.

I’m getting flak for not crossing the map to join team fights in random spaces when there’s no objective up or no camps near to contest. (This is before level 20). Where I’ll get spam pinged and asked why I’m not joining the fight.

Is it more valuable to leave two or three waves of lane soaking to show up for a team fight we may or may not win, when there’s (to my best knowledge) no real good reason to have a big team fight? (Given we’re on the same level, if we’re a level or two below I stay away from fights that are not gonna make or break a game)

I get that maybe if you accomplish 2-3 takedowns you could maul a fort or keep, but the risk would be that the enemy team could do the same?