The Battle for Alterac Valley - 2/1/10

The battle for Alterac Valley rages on in the 61-70 slot. I fought in 12 battles on Brieanna, 4 wins and 8 losses. Yeah, the Alliance isn't doing to well in there, at least in the time frame I was playing in.

We didn't start off too bad, we had one win and a loss, then 3 wins followed by 7 losses... For the first few losses I was hoping I had just got out of sync with the group I was in and would get back in with them but it didn't happen. I guess it was bedtime somewhere or some other reason why they all left but the people that replaced them were not up to the task of winning in AV.

Here is an example of a typical battle, before the gate even opened it would be decided that we would hit Galv, then IBT, TP, while some move on and get FWGY and start the RH, east and west Frostwolf towers capping. If Galv was heavily defended we would skip him and move on to the towers, going back for him later. Well, we would get to Galv and, either I or someone else who could track, would call out if he was defended or not. Almost every time he was defended and we would say to skip him. Every time the Alliance would ride right in there like lambs going to the slaughter.

Keep in mind this is a 61-70 slot and every one of the Horde in Galv would be 68+. Usually 15+. We were starting off outnumbered to begin with, which is when the Horde really like to defend him because they know they can wipe us, and by the time we got to Galv half the people we did have were still trickling out of the cave. Time and time again we would say skip him and time and time again everyone would ride right in. Galv is a Tard magnet.

That would result in the majority of our team being north of IWB, basically at the GY back at the start point. The few of us who were smart enough to skip Galv and take the towers would get wiped out when 8-10 Horde would come into the tower and take it back. That is the type of teamwork we had going on for the losses.

For the wins you could tell it was an entirely different group of people. If Galv was defended we would skip him, everyone would skip him. That gave us enough people south of IWB to actually defend the towers we were taking when the Horde came piling in. People were working in groups. Everyone moved out of the cave at the same time. Everyone stayed together so the Horde couldn't pick us off 5 to 1. We killed Drek in all but one of the wins, and that one we won on reinforcements because the Horde decided to turtle. If you have a good team you can win a turtle. If you have a piss poor team like we did in the losses the best you can hope for is to turtle until reinforcements run out and keep them from killing Vann.

Anyway I got a lot of kills on Brieanna, over 5,000 now and some decent honor. I am at around 20,000 honor right now and I think I am going to save it all until I am 80 and then gear her. I am still coming out with more killing blows than deaths and usually in the top 10 in a decent group.

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