Battle for Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 12/18/09

Today the daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients and as usual it took 2 to get a win. I fought them on Wranngar.

The first battle started off really unbalanced, it was 6 Alliance against 15 Horde. Basically they were waiting for us when we got off the boat, killed us, and then farmed kills at the only graveyard. When I got in it said the battle was going to end in 4 minutes because there were not enough players, then it said it was going to end in 5 minutes, then it went back to 4 minutes.... Anyway by the time we had enough people to fight our way out of the graveyard we had less than 2 minutes to complete our objective. Needless to say we didn't. A lot of the battlegrounds I fight in start off very unbalanced in the Horde's favor, I believe this is something Blizzard does intentionally so the Horde can win once in awhile. 3 or 4 to one is perfect odds for the Horde, they can actually kill someone that way. The funny thing about that first battle is it ended in a draw. Neither side was able to capture the Titan Portal. Doesn't say a lot for the Horde does it?

In the second battle we started off 15 to 15 so we naturally owned the battleground. We were able to get all the way to the Titan Relic and capture the Portal with ease. When it was the Horde's turn they didn't even get through the yellow gate which is the gate to the courtyard where the door to the Relic is.

That completed my daily which I turned in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points.

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Alterac Valley 12/18/09

Today was another pretty sad day for the Alliance in Alterac Valley. I don't know what people are thinking, but they obviously are not thinking about winning in AV.

The day started off bad, one loss after another, then got good for a little while when I got in with a good group. We were Blitzing. We had 13 Blitz's/wins in a row. We had a good tank and good heals and all just rushed to Drek and killed him with 4 Warmasters up. We must have been up against the same group in all of them for the most part because in the last few they had people in defending Drek. It didn't matter, we killed them too.

There was a lot of Whining during the Blitz's from the PvE'rs that just want to get their 50 kills wearing the stupid Gnome outfit but they just had to deal with it. Eventually we got thinned out enough so the PvE'rs just did their own thing and went to Galv. They were massacred, as we said they would be when we said Galv was a trap, but that was enough to cause the Blitz to fail. I will be so happy when Christmas is over in there and this stupid achievement goes away.

After that I fought in a few battles that went right back to fail. People didn't have a clue and the only one's that were happy were the PvE'rs getting their 50 kills until they died and lost their costume, then they left, which is a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

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