Simple AV question

[MammaMu]

Hi, just a simple question about the "new" AV:
There is no "join as group" option for AV. The only alternative if you want to play with a friend seems to be than one of us join, report number, and the other person joins the queue for that AV number.

Is there a way past this to join as team, as for AB: queue as group, become auto-raided in bg, regrouped when bg is over?

[moopy]

Joining the BG won't disrupt your earlier raid, the BG raid and normal raids can co-exist. Thus I got invited to a raid for a WSG premade while I was in AV last night, and /raid was talking to the people waiting for me to go wsg and /bg was adressing the people in AV.

There is no easy way to do AV with friends other than decide to all go to the same instance of AV, but there's no reason why any of you have to leave the raid that you were in beforehand (however useless that raid might be for AV purposes).