The Battle for Alterac Valley 1/1/10

I fought in 18 battles for Alterac Valley tonight on Wranngar, 10 wins and 8 losses. The Alliance is doing surprisingly well in AV for a holiday weekend. Usually a holiday weekend is the worst time to fight in a battleground, it brings out the weekend warriors, people who only fight in battlegrounds on the holiday weekend and are pretty inexperienced, and twice the AFK as they like the double honor too.

We won most of our battles by killing Drek although we did win a couple on reinforcements. For the most part we had good teamwork which is amazing on a holiday weekend, you usually can't get teamwork when it's not the holiday weekend let along on a holiday weekend. I guess the Horde had their share of weekend warriors too.

In a few of the battles I was in there was a Deathknight that said he could tank Drek with all adds up. That means Drek at 200% health, 4 Warmasters and 2 Forstwolves. The simple fact of the matter was, he couldn't hold aggro on everything. The adds (Warmasters) were breaking away and killing the healers. We tried that 4 times and it just didn't work. It takes a lot to hold aggro on everything, especially when your health is dropping so fast the healers can't just hit you with HoT's (Heal over Time) and have to throw some full heals on you. Full heals generate a lot of threat and will pull an add off the tank almost every time.

There were some people in there that said they had been in 5 or 6 losses in a row. I guess they were just hitting bad groups. Usually when I hit a bad streak like that I will wait a few minutes before I queue again in hopes of getting away from that bad group and into a better one. If you queue as soon as you leave the battleground you will usually end up with most of the same people again. If you have been losing and in bad groups, queuing again right away is a bad idea. On the other hand when you have been in a good group you want to queue again immediately when you get out.