Alterac Valley 1/21/10

Believe it or not, the Alliance isn't doing to well in Alterac Valley tonight. I only fought in 3 battles, 2 on Wranngar and one on Gomorra but that was enough to see how it was going. Wranngar had 1 win and 1 loss while Gomorra had a loss. The one we won was a pre-made, otherwise it would have been on the loss side.

The pre-made was a QQ, too bad they are so full of themselves. They usually do pretty good as long as the Horde don't decide to Blitz. They try to go on and on about how great they are and how the 'pugs' are going to lose the battle for them but, basically, they are undergeared and inexperienced players that are following orders. At least they can do that. Anyway Wranngar ended up in one of those and it was a win. The other one he was in we lost to basic inexperience. I am not sure where all these inexperienced players are coming from and what happened to all the experienced players but it really sucks. Maybe I am just getting in there at the wrong time every day, I have been doing my daily's first lately, when before I was just going right into the battlegrounds.

The 2 Gomorra were in were just straight up fails. The second one was the only one we came close in and we lost that one by over 240 reinforcements. It was the same stupid shit, see Horde piling into Galv and go in after them... When you see the Horde piling into Galv you skip him. Pretty simple, leave them standing there and go by. Unfortunately the Alliance isn't smart enough to do that. The second battle, the one that was close, we might have been able to pull it off if someone hadn't capped SHGY. I really wish people would smarten up about that GY and stop capping it. There are times when it is ok, even good, to cap it but more times than not it should be left alone. Good rule of thumb then, don't cap SHGY.

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Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 1/21/10

Eye of the Storm was my daily battleground today, I did it on both Wranngar and Gomorra. Wranngar won the first one he was in but it took Gomorra 3 battles to get his win.

Wranngar got lucky and got in with a good group on his first one. We held 3 towers and ran the flag some. Those are the kind of groups I like to be in, groups that know towers are more important than the stupid flag. You get in with a group of Flagtards, people who can only see the flag and nothing else, and you will lose every time.

Gomorra was not so lucky. His first battle started off 5x15... I'm not sure what the problem is with Blizzard but starting off outnumbered 2 to 1, 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 is getting old fast. Needless to say we lost that one. The second group he got in wasn't any better. They weren't Flagtards, at least not all of them, but they really had no clue. We held 1 tower for most of that one then lost that. While we didn't have any towers we did have the flag... Flagtard in action... The 3rd group was a lot better. They weren't too responsive to calls of incoming, nor were they big on guarding nodes, all the nodes we had were completely unguarded at one time or another, but somehow we managed to hang onto 3 nodes and run the flag. We won that one by over 700 points.

I handed this in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. Season 8 opens in a week and I can start getting gear for Gomorra again and re-gear Wranngar.

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