The Battle for Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 11/27/09

The daily battleground today was Eye of the Storm. I did it on Wranngar. We won the first one I was in and that was the only one I fought in. We didn't do great, we barely won it as a matter of fact.

We had a 2 cap most the time and a 3 cap for a little bit. We also ran the flag a lot. The secret to winning at EoS is to take and hold at least 3 towers. If you can take and hold 3 towers throughout the entire battle you will win. People don't like to do that though, they would rather fight over the flag in the middle. That costs us more wins.

One thing I have noticed in EoS is when the Horde come to capture one of the towers the Alliance are holding they come right up to the tower and fight and the Alliance waits for them to get there. When the Alliance tries to take a tower the Horde are holding the Horde come way out to fight on the road. I constantly tell people not to fight on the road, go up to the tower to fight and you hear other people saying it all the time too but no one listens. When you are fighting at the tower it is clocking over, when you are fighting in the road all you're doing is wasting time. Another thing is you rarely ever go up to one of the Horde's towers and find it empty but the Alliance leave their towers unguarded all the time...

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The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/27/09

I fought in 25 Alterac Valley battles on Wranngar tonight, 20 wins and 5 losses. I got a lot of honor, over 35,000, and a lot of kills, over 1500.

We were doing great in there tonight. We had a few dumb moves where people would take SHGY too early and where people wanted to Blitz but when we got to Drek there was no tank or we didn't have heals. I had a great time in there tonight though. We had a few battles with the Horde where we were just face to face battling it out. I love it when we push them all the way back into Frostwolf Keep then take that away from them and they are rezzing in their cave. I am sure they love it when they do it to us too lol. People are starting to learn, or we just had a group of veterans in a couple battles, that you need to stack the towers when we have SFGY and SHGY because the Horde are all over the place around there. That is why it is a bad idea to take SHGY early and a really bad idea to take both SHGY and SFGY early. We got about 10 people in IBT though and burned it down, then we did the same for TP. We won a bunch of games on reinforcements too which is unusual for the Alliance, it is usually the Horde that win on reinforcements. We killed Drek in a lot of battles.

I helped a Shaman, Bettarex, in the Field of Strife in one battle when she got attacked by a Deathknight and we stuck together after that. She was a healer and had Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth so I would hop on and when we got to the Horde she would heal me, it was great. That was one of the battles where we were going at it head to head and I was unstoppable. I told her it wasn't just a job healing me it was an adventure. I would just jump into the middle of a group and go to town with the heals pouring in.

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/27/09

The Battle for Wintergrasp Fortress rages on in Northrend. I fought in 3 battles tonight on Wranngar, all wins. The Alliance seems to do fairly well in there even though the Horde have Tenacity. That gives them one hell of a buff, I saw a Warlock in there tonight with over 57,000 health. He was one shotting people.

We took Wintergrasp Fortress back from the Horde once and defended it twice. I could have fought in more but I always miss them. In the 2 battles where we were defending we destroyed all 3 of the Hordes southern towers and in the battle where we were attacking we defended ours. Even with the Tenacity the Horde still do really poorly in there, they still run around in packs so they are able to kill someone. That Lock was something else though, he must have been well geared before the buff. I need one more mark to get my trinket, Anvil of Titans, I finally remembered what it was I was saving my marks for. I thought it was 15 marks but it is 25. After that there is really nothing I need out of there for gear but I will keep fighting and get the Reins of the Black War Mammoth. That costs 300 Stone Keeper's Shards. I get them from doing quests in there. The quests are only available to you every 3 days.

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The Battle for Eye of the Storm 11/26/09

The Alliance was sucking worse than usual in Eye of the Storm tonight. I fought in 4 battles on Wranngar tonight, 1 win and 3 losses. Eye of the Storm is another battleground I have spent a lot of time in.

The problem didn't really seem to be Flagtards tonight, it seemed to be lack of experience. I always say there is a time to do EoS and the time frame I was in tonight wasn't it. We do really good in there during certain times of the day, and other times we do really bad. One thing you have to do in EoS is leave at least one person on a node after it has completely capped. I'm not talking the flags showing up, I am talking fully capped. That wasn't happening tonight so when one Horde would ride into an unguarded node, that's right, unguarded, the flags would burn in 4 or 5 seconds or so. Another problem was people not calling incoming, you have to call incoming. You can see a long ways from every node and you need to call incoming when you see them coming a long ways off so people have time to get there. Not that they will come but they have time to get there if they do. Fighting on the roads instead of the nodes was a big problem tonight, you can actually clock over a tower while you are in combat if you outnumber the Horde and you are actually fighting on the tower, they do it to us all the time. The Alliance seems to prefer fighting on the roads. There was one Druid that would run right through the Alliance every time they came to try and take FRR tonight. Of course 3/4 of the people that were coming to get FRR would turn around and follow her trying to kill her. She was bringing them all the way back to our rock before they killed her. The Horde at FRR would wipe out what was left.... All of this makes me think there were a lot of inexperienced people in there tonight. It was almost like a battleground holiday weekend in there.

In one battle they had a 50k HP Warrior running their flag, he was geared. He wasn't having any trouble at all running it.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley - Daily Battleground 11/26/09

The daily battleground was Alterac Valley again. I love it when the daily is AV, it is my favorite battleground by far. It is the first one I ever fought in, that was back when I used to PvP on Gomorra, and I can't get enough of it. Even when we are screwing up horribly I would rather be there than a winning Warsong Gulch. I hate WSG. I could spend a lot of time going on about how much I hate WSG but that's another story.

We won the first one I did after I got the daily. I did a few before the daily's rolled over too. Altogether I fought in 13 battles in AV on Wranngar, 9 wins and 4 losses. We were doing pretty good in there today.

We had the usual problems, people holding onto SHGY at the start, will they ever learn? We got wiped at Galv once or twice when the Horde decided to surprise us by stacking his room, people starting something clocking then leaving, a lot of AFK and some just plain bad playing. We did have some great battles though. I love it when we come head to head with the Horde and just fight it out. Except on a hill, I hate fighting on a hill, your point of view doesn't change fast enough and you can't see the person you are trying to kill half the time when you are going up and down fast. I am pretty much in it for the kills now, I have one more piece I want to upgrade but I only need a couple thousand more honor and I can get that in a couple battles. What I need now are the kills so I can hit 100,000 and get my "of the Alliance" title. We had a lot of those today, I got around 785 I think by the time I called it a night. We killed Drek, the Horde killed Vann, a good time was had by all, except the AFK which I encourage people to report so they get booted. I really hate AFK in the battlegrounds. All the purple dots are AFK. People have been pretty good about reporting them lately. It is nice now that they get booted after 60 seconds so you can get someone in there who will, hopefully, fight.

One thing the Alliance really needs to work on is guarding the East and West Frostwolf Towers. People like to start them clocking then jump down and stand on the hill in front of the keep. The Horde know this and, in almost every single battle, a Rogue or Druid will stealth in there and cap them back. It doesn't matter if we have 30 people at the keep, if no one is in the towers one person can back cap them before they burn. Sometimes they do it 2 or 3 times before they burn... They need to leave more people in TP and IBT when they are capping too, one or two people doesn't cut it especially when 4 or 5 Horde show up to cap it back. I have put in a lot of hours in AV and I think I've seen it all. You can't tell people anything though, the Alliance does what it wants and that's it.

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/26/09

I only got to fight in one battle in Wintergrasp on Wranngar tonight and it was a loss. The Horde controlled Wintergrasp Fortress and they hung onto it. I am still kind of new to Wintergrasp so I am still learning and am not sure what we did wrong. From what people were saying though we didn't guard our southern towers and that's what killed us. People were saying, and I quote, "While all you idiots were milling around in front of the keep, the Horde went down and demolished our towers". I am not sure where they were while this was going on but I know when we demolish all the Hordes southern towers it is pretty much going to be a win for us, so I guess they were right. I know we defended them last time we took the keep away from the Horde and we won so it makes sense.

It was about a 20 minute battle, at least that is how long I was in it, I got in late, and I got some good kills out of it. I haven't commandeered a vehicle yet because I don't want to screw up so I am pretty much infantry. I am getting ready to though. There seems to be no shortage of drivers anyway so it isn't essential that I commandeer one. As soon as the Horde won I switched to flight form and got out of there. When we win I like to stick around and kill Horde but that is only fun when you win.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/25/09

I fought in 6 battles in Alterac Valley on Wranngar tonight, 3 wins and 3 losses. AV was my daily today. We had a few pretty good battles and a couple turtles. Even some of the ones we lost were good, a lot of fighting and a lot of kills. We tried to do one Blitz but no one bothered to check to see if we had a tank that could tank Drek at 200% health with 4 Warmasters. We didn't.

The last battle I was in we had Stormpike Perfection. We didn't lose a tower and Bal was still up. We had all the Horde towers, all the Graveyards and the Horde were rezzing in their cave. We pushed them all the way back from SHGY to Frostwolf Keep, then into their cave. Everyone around me got the achievement Stormpike Perfection but I didn't..... This is the second screw up I have had in the battlegrounds this week. The other one was in Wintergrasp when we won and I only got one mark. I have a ticket in but it is going on 3 days now for that one and no reply yet. They are experiencing a high volume of petitions. I bet they are.

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The Battle for Eye of the Storm 11/25/09

I fought in 5 Eye of the Storm battles tonight on Wranngar, 2 wins and 3 losses.

One of the losses was close, and we lost because the Horde ran the flag more than us. In the other 2 losses, well, we can write those off to Flagtards. When over half your team comes off the rock and goes directly to the flag, you know you're gonna lose. When you don't even have a tower but you have 8 people in the middle fighting for the flag, you know you're gonna lose. When you have people that are leaving towers before they even finish capping, you know you're gonna lose. The list of stupidity goes on and on. It is a wonder we win anything in there. The one thing people just don't seem to get is, 3 towers win over running the flag every time. Also, if you don't have a tower the flag is useless. I get a kick out of these idiots that grab the flag then say "quick, get a tower!". There are certain times of the day when you can do ok in EoS, the time I happened to be in there wasn't one of them.

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/25/09

I only got to fight in one battle for Wintergrasp on Wranngar tonight. The Horde was in control of the keep and we took it away from them. It was a pretty good battle and it really didn't take us long. We still had one and a half towers up when we won, it seemed to be a pretty sad group. We controlled everything except the keep right before we won. One more win or two more losses and I will have enough to get my next item but I don't remember what it is right now lol.

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Wranngar - 75,000 Lifetime Kills

I passed the 75,000 lifetime kills mark on Wranngar tonight, that puts me over three quarters of the way to the achievement 100000 Honorable Kills and my title, "of the Alliance". I have been doing between 10 and 30 battlegrounds a day lately. That is giving me between 700 and 1,500 kills a day. I will have my title this year I'm sure. That is the last achievement you get for quantity of kills. After that I will work on getting all the rest of the PvP and battleground achievements done.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/24/09

I fought in 26 battles tonight in Alterac Valley on Wranngar. We had 16 wins and 10 losses. The Alliance was doing Ok in there tonight for the most part. Alterac Valley was also my daily battleground today.

We had one battle we won on reinforcements, we were just slaughtering the Horde. We drove them back from SHGY all the way to the Frostwolf Relief Hut then we took that away from them too, they were rezzing in their cave :). That was a great battle, I ended up getting 276 honorable kills out of that one. I got a lot of honor tonight too. We did a few Blitz's and a few almost Blitz's where we won fast but didn't do it in under 6 minutes. The Horde did a few Blitz's as well. Lately they seem to be trying to Blitz a lot. Over 3/4 of the battles I was in I would say they tried the Blitz. They were not successful on all of them, obviously, but we did have some pretty short battles we lost.

In one of the battles I was in we had an alleged Warrior 'Tank' tanking Drek. They said I was taunting Drek off of them. What I used was Demoralizing Roar which reduces his armor but no real threat. It gives the lightning bolt over his head when I do it and they thought I was taunting him off them. The problem was they were just a crap tank that couldn't hold him. He kept getting away from them and killing the healers. If Demoralizing Roar can pull a mob off you when you're tanking you should just stick to defending towers or DPS and leave the tanking to someone who can hold him. And if I was pulling him off he would have been on me, not the healers. Just some sorry excuse for a player trying to blame someone else for their incompetence.

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The Battle For Wintergrasp 11/24/09

I fought in 3 Wintergrasp battles tonight on Wranngar, 2 wins and 1 loss.

In one of the wins we were defending and in the loss we were also defending. In the last battle I fought in the Horde were defending the keep and we won that one. The secret when the Horde are defending the keep seems to be to get their southern towers down as fast as possible. Once you have those 3 towers down it is pretty much wrapped up from what I can see. All that's left after that is clean up. Of course the Horde are trying to destroy the southern towers when we are defending the keep so we have to defend those as best we can as well.

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