Isle of Conquest - Holiday Weekend 1/22/10

Tonight I went against my own advice and fought in a battleground on it's holiday weekend. Once in a while I am pleasantly surprised when I fight in a battleground on it's holiday weekend and tonight was no exception. The only good thing about a battleground on it's holiday weekend is we usually start off pretty even as far as numbers go.

We didn't start off too well, we lost the first 4 I was in but the honor was good, there is double honor for fighting in a battleground on it's holiday weekend. Then we went on to win the next 8 in a row. The way we were doing that was by taking the hangar at the start so we would be in control of the airship. Once we had that we were portaling up to the airship and jumping off into the Horde keep. Once inside we were bombing the gate from the inside while other players were attacking it from the outside as well as other people on airship hitting it with cannon fire. That strat was working really well. Let me explain that when you jump off the airship you don't just plummet to the ground, you get a parachute and glide down into their keep, nice and gentle. The only drawback to that is if their keep is full of Horde players. Fortunately it wasn't as they were out trying to get into our keep.

That got us a total of 9 wins and 5 losses. As usual there were a lot of AFK in all the battles I was in, they like to come in and leech the double honor. We lost one battle towards the end by total lack of teamwork. The west gate to the Horde keep was down for over 10 minutes but we couldn't get through because everyone was scattered everywhere. The gate was down and all we had to do was go in and kill their General. Everyone should have been at the west gate fighting their way in but over 2/3 of our team was somewhere else. Of course the AFK were just standing in our keep, but the rest should have been at that gate. The Horde ended up winning that one on resources... I liked it better when there were no resources and the better team won but the Horde couldn't get any wins that way. They cried to Blizzard and things were changed to give them an advantage. All in all a good night for the Alliance in IoC. I will be back in there again tomorrow night to see how we are doing.

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Alterac Valley - 1/22/10

The Alliance was doing so-so in Alterac Valley tonight. I fought in 8 battles on Gomorra, 3 wins and 5 losses. We started every one of the battles outnumbered and that had a large impact on the outcome as it always does. We did win a couple that we started off outnumbered by more than 15 though, that is why I said the Alliance was doing so-so instead of bad. When you can start off that far behind and win you usually have a pretty good team.

Out of the 5 Horde victories they only killed Vann twice, the rest they won on reinforcements. That is not unusual, Alterac Valley is set up in the Hordes advantage when it comes to a reinforcement battle and they shoot for it every time.

In the battles we did win we killed Drek in every one. It is unusual for the Alliance to win in Alterac Valley on reinforcements. It happens, but not too often. One of the battles I was in was a QQ pre-made and we won that one. They recall and try to get the bunkers back in Dun Baldar for maximum honor. Sometimes they get them, sometimes not but we usually always win in one of those. I have thought of joining one of those just to see how many times a day you actually fight. I don't think it can be too often as I fight in Alterac Valley a lot and only see them in there once every couple days.

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