Alterac Valley - Not Alliance at it's best 1/11/10

The Alliance is still having a hard time in Alterac Valley. I am not sure what the problem is but it seems like all the players are just really inexperienced. I am not sure where they are all coming from. Are they all hitting 80 at the same time because a new expansion is coming out? Did a lot of kids get new level 80's off eBay for Christmas? If so why are they all doing AV?

I fought in 16 battles on Gomorra, 8 wins and 8 losses. You might think 50% is not too bad, but this is a battleground we were dominating in up until the end of last year, less than a month ago. At that point we were winning 80% of the battles. Now I am lucky to have a day where I hit 50%.

The main problem we had in all our losses were people not listening, which causes no teamwork. In the last battle I was in, before I decided I was wasting my time, the entire battle that was fought by the Alliance was fought in the Field of Strife, that is in the middle of the battleground. There are no objectives there. There is nothing to fight for there. Needless to say we lost that one. We had one or two people trying to cap towers but when you are holding SHGY, and we were for some reason, you need 8-10 people in a tower to cap it. Evidently 8-10 is too big a number for most these people to grasp. You try to give advice and you get people commenting with things like "WHAAAA" and "QQ". These are the idiots that won't learn, can't learn, and cost us battle after battle.

We did have some wins though, they were scattered through the losses. In those we had a couple maximum honor games, those are the ones where you have all 4 towers capped, Galv dead and still hold most if not all your towers. Another thing people don't seem to understand is you get honor for each of your towers you still hold at the end of the battle, win or lose. We had a couple where we killed Drek with a couple towers still up, usually east and west Frostwolf towers as the Alliance WILL NOT guard those. They will start them capping then jump down and stand on noob hill. One Horde player will sneak in and cap them back, they do it every time. People do not learn from this mistake. People don't seem to learn from any of their mistakes in there in this battlegroup, that is one of the reasons we are doing so badly I think.

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Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 1/11/10

Today when Gomorra picked up the daily battleground it was Strand of the Ancients. I usually get this one done in 2 battles or less. Today was an exception. I am not sure why the Alliance in Bloodlust are doing so bad in all battlegrounds lately but it is frustrating. More reason to transfer to a better battlegroup.

It took me 5 battles to get a win today. 5 is the most I will do to get a daily done, if I can't get a good enough group in 5 battles to get a win I just drop it and see what tomorrow brings. I am not sure why most of the people were there, it certainly wasn't to win a SoA. In 2 of the losses we didn't even get through the second gate. In one of the battles we had 5 AFK, that's 1/3 of our team doing nothing. No wonder we can't win anything. This AFK problem isn't just in SoA, it is out of control in all the battlegrounds.

After having the Horde walk all over us in 4 battles we finally got a half way decent group for the 5th battle. We hit both gates at once and got through the blue one. That lead us through the purple one and on to the yellow one. We got through that and to the gate the relic is behind in about 3 minutes. From there we took that gate down, exposing the relic, and captured the portal.

Then it was the Hordes turn. They got through the second gates but didn't get through the yellow gate.

What a difference between groups. I waited about 15 minutes between each try to try and get away from the bad groups but I was just getting bad group after bad group until the last one.

Anyway we won it in the 5th battle and I turned the daily in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor, which Gomorra can really use, and 25 arena points. Hopefully tomorrow it will be Alterac Valley which is the only battleground I fell like fighting in anymore. We might not be winning a lot on there but it is still my favorite.

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More Alterac Valley 1/10/10

I fought in Alterac Valley some more on Gomorra today. The Alliance is still not doing great in there. I fought in 16 battles, 7 wins and 9 losses.

During the course of the day I went from really bad groups, into really good groups, and back into really bad groups. All the wins I had were in the middle. I have to stick with it though as I need the honor for gear on Gomorra.

We had a lot of inexperienced people in there again. I see a lot of people getting their achievement for their first win in there when we do have a win. That right there tells you they don't have a lot of experience in there, at least not on the character they are on. The things people say in there too are a dead giveaway that they have no experience. Things like "Kill Drek" when we have 5 or 6 people at Drek and no towers down. "Don't give the Horde SHGY" is another one, that is usually a fatal mistake.

Unfortunately for Gomorra the lack of experienced players in there really hurts. It is worse for him than it is for Wranngar who is a melee fighter. Gomorra is a caster, he wears cloth. He is not made for melee combat. The last thing he wants is to have to come into actual contact with the enemy. He needs a good front line to stand behind and cast. He has a couple things to get people off him, fear and howl of terror which is a group fear, but it is hard to cast that when 5 or 6 people are hitting you at the same time, as damage knocks back the casting. The healers have it pretty bad too in inexperienced groups, they are the first ones to get targeted because you want to kill the healers first so the enemy has no heals.

In the good groups I had a really good time, I was able to stand back behind a good front line and cast. There were a couple battles I got through without a death in those. As poorly geared as Gomorra is at the moment he was still able to wrack up over 700,000 damage in one battle and over 400,000 in all the others. With a bad group he usually does around 250,000 as he spends a lot of time dead...

I did get 2 new pieces of gear in the last couple days, Deadly Gladiator's Felweave Amice which I socketed with a Potent Ametrine and then inscribed with Greater Inscription of the Storm. Today I got Furious Gladiator's Cuffs of Dominance. I have about 4,000 honor left, I need about 45,000 more for my next piece.

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