Daily Battleground - Alterac Valley 12/30/09

I fought in Alterac Valley on Wranngar today and the Alliance started off doing pretty well.

AV was my daily battleground today and we won the first one I was in. We won that one by 2 reinforcements. That is the closest battle in AV I have ever been in. It was close and touch and go right to the end. We also lost a battle by 3 reinforcements. We were ahead on that one but the Alliance have a way of screwing up. That should have been the sign that the quality of the group had changed but I fought in a few more anyway.

I fought in a total of 9 battles, 4 wins and 5 losses. We won the first 3 battles I was in, then lost a couple and won another one. Then we had 3 losses in a row and I decided to call it a day. Remember how I said the quality of players is different at different times of the day? Well, the quality of players went downhill and it was time to get out.

We did kill Drek 3 times with anywhere from 0 to 2 towers up. The Horde got most of their wins by killing Vann with most of their towers up. They didn't get to pull off a Blitz today but they came close once. We had a couple where they were waiting at Galv. Even when there are 20 Horde standing outside Galv in plain site the Alliance will blindly run right up there and get slaughtered. That really sets us back as they all rez in DB, way back at the start.

I only saw a few people doing the Gnome achievement but that will be over in a couple days thankfully. They can go back to PvE which they are hopefully better at than PvP.

I turned in my battleground daily for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. I am starting to build up arena points but will probably save them until season 5 rolls out.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley - 12/29/09

I know I said I wasn't going to fight in Alterac Valley again until after the new year but I was really bored leveling my Hunter and decided to see how things were going in there. I fought in 4 battles on Wranngar and from what I saw we are doing better. We had 2 wins and 2 losses.

The first battle I was in we won with maximum honor. The Horde had SHB and IWB capping but not capped. We kept taking them back from them. They attacked the North and South Bunkers in Dun Baldar a few times but we took those back too. We capped all 4 towers and had FWGY along with the Relief Hut. With all the towers down, FWGY in our control so the Horde couldn't keep rezzing and trying to wipe us when we did Drek, we went in and took Drek down. That was a good battle.

In the second battle there was someone saying not to go any farther than IBT. To cap IBT then hold everything north of that. They swore that works. I didn't think it would work but decided to see what happened. We were ahead about 100 resources after IBT capped and should have moved forward but that person was saying to just hang onto everything. The Horde eventually whittled down the lead with kills until we were only about 40 ahead. They were slowly working their way north too. The person that was saying to not go forward and just hold everything north of IBT never left DB. Finally I spoke up and said we were going to lose unless we moved forward and got at least one more tower. He said he had come into battles where they Horde were ahead by 200 reinforcements and we won. I said I believed it because that is just what the Horde were doing, slowly closing the gap on reinforcements for the win.

By the time people stopped listening to him and started moving forward it was too late, the Horde capped SHB, which took us down to about 45 reinforcements left to their 130, then they got into DB and started those towers capping. We lost when the North Bunker capped. Now I know for sure that strat doesn't work, at least not in a PUG.

We won the next one capping 3 of the 4 towers and taking Drek down but lost the last one when the Horde took Vann with 3 towers up. We were looking pretty good in the last one too until they did that. We had 2 towers capped and were waiting for the last 2 along with the RH to cap. We didn't have enough people in Frostwolf Keep to take Drek anyway even if we knew they were going to kill Vann with 3 towers up. So we won 50% of the battles I was in and that is a vast improvement over what the Alliance was doing in there lately. I am encouraged that things will get back to normal after the new year. One thing I did notice was there were no people in Gnome costumes in there and I think that made a big difference.

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Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 12/29/09

Today my daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. I fought it on Wranngar and it took 4 battles to get a win.

The first 2 battles I was in the Alliance team was made up of Flagtards. Over half the group went right from the rock to the flag. I knew we were going to lose those 2 in the first minute of the battle. In the first one we got the flag right at the start but didn't have anywhere to take it as we had no towers. Maybe should have got some towers first... In the second battle it wasn't much better but we only held one tower and people seemed to be content to get the flag and run it to that, even though that is a slow loss.

In the third battle we had a better group and it looked like were were going to win. We were neck and neck until around 1300 then everyone went Flagtard for some reason. I don't know what it was, we had 3 towers on and off throughout the battle but were down to 2 at that point. Instead of getting another tower everyone tried to get the flag and we lost by about 150 points.

In the 4th battle I was leader and I stated right at the beginning that towers win EoS, not the flag. Get 3 towers, hold 3 towers, win. Go Flagtard, lose. For a change people listened. Maybe that is a lot of the problem, no direction. Anyway the plan was to get DR, BET and FRR which we did, then we got MT too. We held a 4 cap throughout the battle and ran the flag a few times. We won that one 1600 to 0. After the first 3 I was thinking I would never get my daily done.

I turned that in, and yes I remembered to turn it in, for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points.

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Wintergrasp 12/29/09

I only got to fight in one battle for Wintergrasp on Wranngar tonight but it was a win and I got all 4 of the quests done. It has been a little while since I fought in Wintergrasp but things haven't changed much.

We started off the battle with everyone in the keep as usual (when we are in control) but as the battle progressed it became apparent that they were all going to stay in the keep which is a sure fire loss. Finally after I and some other people said something about getting out of the keep, getting some siege equipment, and getting to work on the towers did people start to come out and do something... It is unbelievable that people will just stay in the keep and let the Horde tear it down around them unless someone says something but that seems to be the case.

Eventually we got the southern and southeastern towers down, I don't think we even damaged the southwestern tower at all, and managed to get the closest workshops away from the Horde. That was the turning point, when the Horde couldn't build siege equipment right next to the keep, they had to take the time to drive them from the south and hope we didn't destroy them on the way, which we did. Finally we ran the clock out for the win but the Horde had the west wall down by that time so it was close.

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