Daily Battleground - Isle of Conquest 1/2/10

Today Wranngar's daily battleground was Isle of Conquest. We won the first one I was in.

We had a pretty good group even if we did get off to a rough start. There are objectives that you want to capture in there to give you resources you will need to win. The Docks are one of those. When you have the docks you get the Glaive Throwers which are useful in taking down the gates at the keep as well as launching people over the wall and into the keep. The refinery, quarry and hangar are others that you will want to try to capture. Holding the refinery and quarry grant more siege equipment damage and holding the hangar allows you to board the airship and fire down on the Horde's keep as well as the Horde in various areas.

Well, we got the quarry and hangar but didn't get the docks or refinery. We did get the workshop, which makes siege equipment, after a drawn out battle so we weren't really in bad shape. We used the siege equipment from the workshop to batter the gates on the Horde keep down and get us inside. Once inside we had to kill the Horde's General. That was easier said than done because by this time the Horde were in our keep as well and most of our team were defending. The Horde were also defending their General so we had that to deal with too. Eventually we did beat him down for the win though.

The daily battleground gets you 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points.

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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.

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