The Battle for Alterac Valley - Daily Battleground 11/26/09

The daily battleground was Alterac Valley again. I love it when the daily is AV, it is my favorite battleground by far. It is the first one I ever fought in, that was back when I used to PvP on Gomorra, and I can't get enough of it. Even when we are screwing up horribly I would rather be there than a winning Warsong Gulch. I hate WSG. I could spend a lot of time going on about how much I hate WSG but that's another story.

We won the first one I did after I got the daily. I did a few before the daily's rolled over too. Altogether I fought in 13 battles in AV on Wranngar, 9 wins and 4 losses. We were doing pretty good in there today.

We had the usual problems, people holding onto SHGY at the start, will they ever learn? We got wiped at Galv once or twice when the Horde decided to surprise us by stacking his room, people starting something clocking then leaving, a lot of AFK and some just plain bad playing. We did have some great battles though. I love it when we come head to head with the Horde and just fight it out. Except on a hill, I hate fighting on a hill, your point of view doesn't change fast enough and you can't see the person you are trying to kill half the time when you are going up and down fast. I am pretty much in it for the kills now, I have one more piece I want to upgrade but I only need a couple thousand more honor and I can get that in a couple battles. What I need now are the kills so I can hit 100,000 and get my "of the Alliance" title. We had a lot of those today, I got around 785 I think by the time I called it a night. We killed Drek, the Horde killed Vann, a good time was had by all, except the AFK which I encourage people to report so they get booted. I really hate AFK in the battlegrounds. All the purple dots are AFK. People have been pretty good about reporting them lately. It is nice now that they get booted after 60 seconds so you can get someone in there who will, hopefully, fight.

One thing the Alliance really needs to work on is guarding the East and West Frostwolf Towers. People like to start them clocking then jump down and stand on the hill in front of the keep. The Horde know this and, in almost every single battle, a Rogue or Druid will stealth in there and cap them back. It doesn't matter if we have 30 people at the keep, if no one is in the towers one person can back cap them before they burn. Sometimes they do it 2 or 3 times before they burn... They need to leave more people in TP and IBT when they are capping too, one or two people doesn't cut it especially when 4 or 5 Horde show up to cap it back. I have put in a lot of hours in AV and I think I've seen it all. You can't tell people anything though, the Alliance does what it wants and that's it.