The Battle for Alterac Valley 1/15/10

The battle for Alterac Valley rages on. The Alliance was doing a little better in there tonight than they have been lately but not really good. I fought in 10 battles on Gomorra, 4 wins and 6 losses. Not great but better than they have been this last week. I'll take any kind of improvement as a step in the right direction.

We started off bad. I always say there is a time of day to fight in certain battlegrounds and a time of day to stay out of them. Unfortunately Gomorra needs the honor to get geared so I haven't really had that luxury lately. We had 5 losses in a row, then 4 wins in a row and finished up with another loss. The last one I was in was really close, we lost by less than 80 reinforcements. We should have had that one, we were ahead but people got lax, that is the Alliance way. In the 4 we won we downed Drek for the win. Out of the 6 losses the Horde downed Vann twice if I remember correctly, they won the rest on turtles. The Horde win 9 out of 10 turtles because that is a reinforcement win and Alterac Valley is set up to their advantage for that.

Gomorra is about half way to his next piece as far as honor goes. I will be happy when he is finally geared, I like playing Wranngar in the battlegrounds more.

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Isle of Conquest - Daily Battleground 1/15/10

Today the daily battleground was Isle of Conquest. I did it on Wranngar and Gomorra. It took each of them 4 battles to get a win. The Alliance wasn't doing too well in there and a major part of the problem was the battles starting off so uneven. When you are in a 40x40 battleground and you are outnumbered 2 to 1, you don't stand much of a chance. Add to that the Alliance's lack of teamwork and the loss is almost assured.

Eventually we got a roughly even start, 34x40 on Wranngar and 36x40 on Gomorra, and those are the ones we won. In the first 3 on each we got steamrolled. In the majority of the losses we weren't even up to 40 players at the end. I, like many of the Alliance I'm sure, hope one day Blizzard will be able to get it right, but until then I will limit my daily battleground to 5 losses, if we don't have a win in 5 battles I drop it and see what tomorrow brings.

The Horde won a few on reinforcements which means we were putting up a good defense, sort of. The problem with that is everyone was in the keep. It is not too hard to keep them from killing your General if everyone is in the keep. Of course you're not going to win that way either. Ever. That is where the lack of experience that is so obvious in all the battlegrounds comes in. I see that happen a lot in Wintergrasp too. We won each of ours by killing the Horde General.

Anyway, they each handed this daily in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. Wranngar is capped on Honor but can use the arena points, Gomorra needs both.

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