Alterac Valley - Holiday Weekend 12/31/09
It's holiday weekend (Call to Arms) in Alterac Valley. I fought in 7 battles on Wranngar, 1 win and 6 losses.
A holiday weekend is the worst time to fight in a battleground if you want to win. Fortunately I don't need to win, I am capped on marks in AV and I am also capped on honor. So why was I there? For the kills. If nothing else, you can get a lot of kills on a holiday weekend in AV because almost every battle ends up in a turtle. Today was no exception. Out of the 7 battles I was in there was only one group that could be called decent. Actually that group was pretty good. That was the first battle I was in, the one we won.
Holiday weekend brings out all the weekend warriors and double the AFK. You get double honor for fighting in a battleground on it's holiday weekend. Weekend warriors are people who only fight in battlegrounds on their holiday weekend. You can spot them a mile away, they have the oldest PvP gear because they can't get enough honor fast enough to upgrade as it changes. They usually have a lot of blue gear and no skill too. They might as well be AFK for all the good they do.
The battle we won was the exception and I thought it was going to be like the last time I fought in AV on it's holiday weekend. We actually had good groups all weekend and won a lot of battles. That is the rare, rare, exception. Usually it is like today, undergeared people who have no clue what they are doing. I don't know how it can work out to their advantage losing every battle on the holiday weekend, seems to me you would get more honor fighting in winning battles on a regular day.
Anyway we won one battle by capping 3 towers and killing Drek and lost 6 battles by turtling. Even when the Horde don't kill Vann in battles like those the weekend warriors are so undergeared that they Horde are just raping them. You can watch the reinforcements clicking down like a countdown timer. You lose 1 reinforcement every time someone gets killed.
Usually I will just stealth past the Horde and cap towers or graveyards but there is no sense in it on the holiday weekend, we were not going to advance. The Horde know what they are up against too, they wait at Galv and just slaughter the weekend warriors when they show up. You can't tell them otherwise either, you tell them it is a trap and they still run right in there, just like sheep running to a pack of wolves.
I did get a few hundred kills out of it though so it wasn't all for nothing. I might fight in there some more this weekend for the kills, I won't expect to win that's for sure. Another thing weekend warriors are good for is crying when the battle runs over 15 minutes, they start saying just let the Horde cap everything so they can get their mark. I say screw their mark, I have never given the Horde anything and I never will. They should have been around when there were no reinforcements and the battles could run for days. The only way it ended then was when one sides General was killed.
A holiday weekend is the worst time to fight in a battleground if you want to win. Fortunately I don't need to win, I am capped on marks in AV and I am also capped on honor. So why was I there? For the kills. If nothing else, you can get a lot of kills on a holiday weekend in AV because almost every battle ends up in a turtle. Today was no exception. Out of the 7 battles I was in there was only one group that could be called decent. Actually that group was pretty good. That was the first battle I was in, the one we won.
Holiday weekend brings out all the weekend warriors and double the AFK. You get double honor for fighting in a battleground on it's holiday weekend. Weekend warriors are people who only fight in battlegrounds on their holiday weekend. You can spot them a mile away, they have the oldest PvP gear because they can't get enough honor fast enough to upgrade as it changes. They usually have a lot of blue gear and no skill too. They might as well be AFK for all the good they do.
The battle we won was the exception and I thought it was going to be like the last time I fought in AV on it's holiday weekend. We actually had good groups all weekend and won a lot of battles. That is the rare, rare, exception. Usually it is like today, undergeared people who have no clue what they are doing. I don't know how it can work out to their advantage losing every battle on the holiday weekend, seems to me you would get more honor fighting in winning battles on a regular day.
Anyway we won one battle by capping 3 towers and killing Drek and lost 6 battles by turtling. Even when the Horde don't kill Vann in battles like those the weekend warriors are so undergeared that they Horde are just raping them. You can watch the reinforcements clicking down like a countdown timer. You lose 1 reinforcement every time someone gets killed.
Usually I will just stealth past the Horde and cap towers or graveyards but there is no sense in it on the holiday weekend, we were not going to advance. The Horde know what they are up against too, they wait at Galv and just slaughter the weekend warriors when they show up. You can't tell them otherwise either, you tell them it is a trap and they still run right in there, just like sheep running to a pack of wolves.
I did get a few hundred kills out of it though so it wasn't all for nothing. I might fight in there some more this weekend for the kills, I won't expect to win that's for sure. Another thing weekend warriors are good for is crying when the battle runs over 15 minutes, they start saying just let the Horde cap everything so they can get their mark. I say screw their mark, I have never given the Horde anything and I never will. They should have been around when there were no reinforcements and the battles could run for days. The only way it ended then was when one sides General was killed.
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