The Battle for Alterac Valley 12/27/09

When I got on today and went to pick up my daily battleground I found that I forgot to hand my daily battleground in yesterday, so I couldn't grab a new one. I did fight in 2 battles for Alterac Valley on Wranngar though, both losses.

The Alliance is still doing really poorly in there, there is even less teamwork than usual and the Horde have been walking all over us. I think this will be the last time I fight in there this year, I will wait until after the new year and the With a Little Helper from My Friends achievement has ended before I go in there again. There are just too many people taking up spots that could be populated with people who actually know what they are doing. Or at least by people that know they are in a battleground and what that means.

In the 2 battles I was in everyone was warned to stay away from Galv, the Horde would be waiting there. Everyone was instructed to just go right to Drek and we would down him with towers up. No one bothered to check to see if we had a tank and heals capable of doing that but it didn't matter. Over half the team went to Galv, which had the majority of the Horde team waiting inside with him, and wiped. That caused a turtle and eventual loss.

In the first battle we took SHGY and drove the Horde back across the Field of Strife, then they drove us back. That went on and on but eventually the Horde managed to cap Stonehearth Bunker and the Dun Baldar North Bunker which lowered our reinforcements too much to overcome.

In the second battle we ended up turtling in Dun Baldar and eventually lost the Aid Station which had us rezzing in the cave. The Horde took their time capping towers and then killed Vann.

The play has been so poor the last couple weeks and I can only hope it is related to the achievement pulling so many unskilled people into this battleground. I think, I am hoping anyway, that this will end after the new year.