The Battle for Eye of the Storm 11/26/09

The Alliance was sucking worse than usual in Eye of the Storm tonight. I fought in 4 battles on Wranngar tonight, 1 win and 3 losses. Eye of the Storm is another battleground I have spent a lot of time in.

The problem didn't really seem to be Flagtards tonight, it seemed to be lack of experience. I always say there is a time to do EoS and the time frame I was in tonight wasn't it. We do really good in there during certain times of the day, and other times we do really bad. One thing you have to do in EoS is leave at least one person on a node after it has completely capped. I'm not talking the flags showing up, I am talking fully capped. That wasn't happening tonight so when one Horde would ride into an unguarded node, that's right, unguarded, the flags would burn in 4 or 5 seconds or so. Another problem was people not calling incoming, you have to call incoming. You can see a long ways from every node and you need to call incoming when you see them coming a long ways off so people have time to get there. Not that they will come but they have time to get there if they do. Fighting on the roads instead of the nodes was a big problem tonight, you can actually clock over a tower while you are in combat if you outnumber the Horde and you are actually fighting on the tower, they do it to us all the time. The Alliance seems to prefer fighting on the roads. There was one Druid that would run right through the Alliance every time they came to try and take FRR tonight. Of course 3/4 of the people that were coming to get FRR would turn around and follow her trying to kill her. She was bringing them all the way back to our rock before they killed her. The Horde at FRR would wipe out what was left.... All of this makes me think there were a lot of inexperienced people in there tonight. It was almost like a battleground holiday weekend in there.

In one battle they had a 50k HP Warrior running their flag, he was geared. He wasn't having any trouble at all running it.

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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.

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/26/09

I only got to fight in one battle in Wintergrasp on Wranngar tonight and it was a loss. The Horde controlled Wintergrasp Fortress and they hung onto it. I am still kind of new to Wintergrasp so I am still learning and am not sure what we did wrong. From what people were saying though we didn't guard our southern towers and that's what killed us. People were saying, and I quote, "While all you idiots were milling around in front of the keep, the Horde went down and demolished our towers". I am not sure where they were while this was going on but I know when we demolish all the Hordes southern towers it is pretty much going to be a win for us, so I guess they were right. I know we defended them last time we took the keep away from the Horde and we won so it makes sense.

It was about a 20 minute battle, at least that is how long I was in it, I got in late, and I got some good kills out of it. I haven't commandeered a vehicle yet because I don't want to screw up so I am pretty much infantry. I am getting ready to though. There seems to be no shortage of drivers anyway so it isn't essential that I commandeer one. As soon as the Horde won I switched to flight form and got out of there. When we win I like to stick around and kill Horde but that is only fun when you win.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/25/09

I fought in 6 battles in Alterac Valley on Wranngar tonight, 3 wins and 3 losses. AV was my daily today. We had a few pretty good battles and a couple turtles. Even some of the ones we lost were good, a lot of fighting and a lot of kills. We tried to do one Blitz but no one bothered to check to see if we had a tank that could tank Drek at 200% health with 4 Warmasters. We didn't.

The last battle I was in we had Stormpike Perfection. We didn't lose a tower and Bal was still up. We had all the Horde towers, all the Graveyards and the Horde were rezzing in their cave. We pushed them all the way back from SHGY to Frostwolf Keep, then into their cave. Everyone around me got the achievement Stormpike Perfection but I didn't..... This is the second screw up I have had in the battlegrounds this week. The other one was in Wintergrasp when we won and I only got one mark. I have a ticket in but it is going on 3 days now for that one and no reply yet. They are experiencing a high volume of petitions. I bet they are.

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The Battle for Eye of the Storm 11/25/09

I fought in 5 Eye of the Storm battles tonight on Wranngar, 2 wins and 3 losses.

One of the losses was close, and we lost because the Horde ran the flag more than us. In the other 2 losses, well, we can write those off to Flagtards. When over half your team comes off the rock and goes directly to the flag, you know you're gonna lose. When you don't even have a tower but you have 8 people in the middle fighting for the flag, you know you're gonna lose. When you have people that are leaving towers before they even finish capping, you know you're gonna lose. The list of stupidity goes on and on. It is a wonder we win anything in there. The one thing people just don't seem to get is, 3 towers win over running the flag every time. Also, if you don't have a tower the flag is useless. I get a kick out of these idiots that grab the flag then say "quick, get a tower!". There are certain times of the day when you can do ok in EoS, the time I happened to be in there wasn't one of them.

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/25/09

I only got to fight in one battle for Wintergrasp on Wranngar tonight. The Horde was in control of the keep and we took it away from them. It was a pretty good battle and it really didn't take us long. We still had one and a half towers up when we won, it seemed to be a pretty sad group. We controlled everything except the keep right before we won. One more win or two more losses and I will have enough to get my next item but I don't remember what it is right now lol.

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