The Battle for Wintergrasp 12/4/09

The battle for Wintergrasp still rages on. I fought in 2 battles today on Wranngar, we won both.

In both the battles we were defending Wintergrasp Keep. I don't know how many Horde were in the second battle but there was a hunter with 147,000+ hp. That is boss hp so I can only assume he was there by himself lol. Actually we do outnumber them in there and that's why they get the Tenacity but they are pretty much able to one shot you with it.

I got my quest from yesterday done, help destroy one of the Hordes southern towers. I went right to the southeastern tower and killed the warmasters there so I could pilot a catapult. Once I was able to do that I went to the workshop and built one, then I headed back to the tower and helped blast it down. I haven't built and piloted a tank yet but I will. I got another 10 Stone Keeper's Shards for turning that one in.

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The Battle for Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 12/4/09

Today my daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. I did it on Wranngar as usual. It took 2 battles to get a win.

In the first battle we started off good, we had 3 towers capped, DR, BET and MT, then everyone went Flagtard. We lost one of the towers, then another. I was guarding DR alone when 6 Horde rode in. I called incoming and no one came. That is not unusual, especially when everyone is more concerned with the flag. We got one tower back but lost it again. Meanwhile we had 6 people in the middle fighting Horde for the flag... Bottom line, there were too many Flagtards and not enough towers so we lost that one.

In the second battle we had a much better group. We got MT, DR and FRR right from the start then worked on BET, which kept the Horde busy, and started running the flag. We got BET for a 4 cap and it was over soon after that. Towers are the way to win in EoS. And the way to get towers is to fight at the node, not in the road. When you fight at the node you are clocking it over, when you fight in the road you are just wasting time. You could tell the quality of players was better in this group, I was guarding FRR solo and when I called incoming 4 people were there just like that, what a difference from one battle to another.

I got my daily done and turned it in for 19g86s and 1241 bonus honor which I don't even get because I am at the 75,000 honor cap.

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The Battle for Warsong Gulch - Daily Battleground 12/3/09

Warsong Gulch was my daily battleground today and I was not excited. I hate Warsong Gulch. I think it is a crappy battleground with very little return for the time you have to spend in there. At least they put a 25 minute timer on it so that is the longest per battle you will be stuck in there.

We actually did well in there today. I only had to fight in one battle on Wranngar and we won it 3/0. We had a good team that worked together and didn't spend all their time in the middle fighting and accomplishing nothing.

We were able to get their flag and hold onto it, I think we only lost it once after we got it, and cap. We were able to get a group together and get our flag back when they had it even though they had it pretty heavily guarded, at least 5 people at all times. Of course they used over-powered Ret Pally's to guard it but when the bubble bursts they go down pretty fast. We had a heavy guard on our flag carrier and he was never in any danger. The one time we lost the flag was coming across the field which is the most dangerous part. That is where you are out in the open and the center of the Horde's attention.

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 12/3/09

I only fought in one battle for Wintergrasp tonight on Wranngar, a win. We won it easily as a matter of fact. I got into the battle after it started because I was fighting in AV so I didn't get to complete the quest I got, which was to help destroy one of the Horde's southern towers. I will complete it the next time I am in there.

When I got in we were defending the keep which had very little damage to it. The 3 southern towers were already down so basically all I had to do was run around killing Horde. I had no problem with that. We cleaned up the remains and the battle ended. I took the portal back to Dalaran from there. I don't have enough marks or shards to get anything so I didn't bother sticking around to see the quartermaster.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley - What's going on? 12/3/09

The battle for Alterac Valley rages on. I fought in 25 battles on Wranngar today, 21 wins and 4 losses. It is hard to believe I am fighting with the same people but I see the same people in these battles all the time. One day we do so bad it is unbelievable and the next day we can't lose, I don't know what's going on.

The strat that seems to be working well in there lately is to get Galv, then take and guard, and by guard I mean at least 4 people per tower, IBT and TP. Take IBGY while you are there and do not take SHGY for any reason at the start. Have the rest of the people move on to FWGY and the FWRH and east and west FW towers. Hold all those objectives until they burn or cap then kill Drek. We had a lot of wins with that strat today.

The Blitz works well too if you can get everyone to follow the plan. Getting everyone to follow the plan is the hard part, it usually just doesn't happen. To do the Blitz you need to have everyone ride straight to Drek, no stopping for anything. That is where the problem comes in, Glav is a tard magnet. People just can't let Galv live. A lot of times the Horde will wait in with Galv and, if we are doing the Blitz and only a few people go there, kill everyone that comes to kill him. If we are not doing the Blitz we always have enough people at Galv to wipe them out.

We had a group of 9 AFK at FWGY alone today. That does not count the people that were AFK in DB or the people AFK in the cave. The AFK problem is worse than I have ever seen it. There is some kind of new bot out that lets you set it to where you want to end up. Blizzard needs to get off their asses and do something about this.

We won a few on reinforcements. A lot of people QQ about those battles because they take so long but I like them. Those are usually the ones where we are fighting the Horde face to face, Today we pounded them all the way back to FWRH from SHGY and then took FWRH away from them, it was sweet :). I got a lot of kills in that and all the battles, over 1,000 for the day. I got a lot of honor too but I lose that because I am at the cap, 75,000.

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AFK out of control in Battlegrounds 12/3/09

The AFK problem is really getting out of control in the battlegrounds... I DO NOT believe Blizzard is doing anything about this problem regardless of what they say. They can't be doing anything because it is getting worse on a daily basis. There must be a new bot out there people are using that will take you to certain places in the battleground. There were 9 AFK at FWGY in Alterac Valley today. NINE! There was a huge party at FWGY and no one in FW Keep getting the towers. They were all reported AFK and all AFK'd out of the battleground. There are a lot of AFK showing up at Frostwolf Keep too. They get there then stand at the foot of noob hill. They don't fight, they don't get towers and they die as soon as the Horde show up. As you can see in the attached screen shot these losers are getting honor and HK's without doing any damage or healing.

There is another kind of bot too, or maybe it is the same one people are using to get to FWK, it attaches itself to someone and follows them. When I get one of those on me I just stealth and run it through a group of Horde or run it by a Horde GY and let the guards take care of it. Either way, the AFK problem is out of control and it is causing us a lot of losses.

In this one battle we must have AFK'd over 30 people out of the battle by the time it was over. They just kept showing up and we kept reporting them. We won that one on reinforcements, hard to kill Drek when most your team is AFK. The rest of the people were farming HK's at DB.

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Wranngar in the Arena 12/2/09

I fought in my first arena battles on Wranngar tonight. I joined Arkantose's 2x2 team and we fought 10 battles.

We didn't do too well but it was my first arena so I am not too discouraged. I fought in a couple arena fights on Gomorra a couple years ago but comparing a Warlock to a Druid is like comparing apples to oranges. We fought in 10 battles and won 1. The team I joined was already established so it had a higher ranking which I think made a difference when we were paired, we were being paired based on that ranking and I believe it will even out once we start getting paired against people with the same level of experience. Same level as mine anyway lol.

I have been thinking about doing arena for awhile on Wranngar but wanted to get better geared. Well now I am as well geared as I am going to get so I guess it is time. I will be updating our progress as I go along.

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The Battle for Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 12/2/09

The daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients again today. I fought it on Wranngar and we easily won the first one I was in. I fought in another one later on with Arkantose, so he could get his daily done, and we easily won that one too.

The funny/sickening thing about all these different battlegrounds is I see the same people in there AFK. I just don't understand what kind of lowlife would just take a spot away from someone who could be fighting in all these battlegrounds just so they can get some free gear they don't have to work for. Blizzard says the people who do this get banned, stripped of all their gear and honor and even have their account permanently suspended, but I find that kind of hard to believe when I see the same people doing it day after day, week after week.

Anyway, as I said, we won both of these battles easily. The Horde made it to the yellow gate and destroyed it each time but they didn't destroy the door to the relic room in either battle. We made it all the way to the relic and captured it in both battles. For fighting in a winning daily battleground I completed my daily and got 19g86s and 1241 bonus honor.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley - /Sigh... 12/2/09

It is hard to believe it was the same Alliance fighting in Alterac Valley today, after the battles we had in there yesterday. Yesterday we won 23 battles and lost 2. Today we won 14 battles and lost 21... It is just hard to believe the Alliance is so inconsistent in there. I fought all these battles on Wranngar and got a lot of kills but that's where the positive ends.

We did everything wrong, took SHGY at the start and held it like it meant something, didn't defend towers, lost the East and West Frostwolf Towers to the Horde time and again because people weren't guarding them, they were too busy standing on noob hill in front of the keep. We lost the Relief Hut countless times for the same reason. In battle after battle it looked like were were going to have a victory, we were capping the towers in FWK and had IBT & TP capping only to have someone take SHGY and get us all wiped out and sent back to Dun Baldar. This happened time and again. When I was in FWK guarding a tower or the RH I would just wait until the Herald announced "The Alliance has attacked Stonehearth Graveyeard", which marks the beginning of the end. No matter what anyone said people would take it. Then you have the quitters, the people who quit because someone did something after they said not to or just quit when the going gets bad. Good riddance I say, we don't need you.

There was one battle where everyone actually followed the plan, by everyone I mean over 90% of the people that were not AFK. We had A LOT of AFK in all the battles. You will not get all the people to follow any plan, maybe some people can't read, maybe some people think they can win solo in a 40x40 battleground so they follow their own plan, but 90% is a like a record for the Alliance. We won that one easily. If only we could have that kind of response in every battle.

Hopefully this was just a nightmare and the next time I am in there we will do better with people that can actually think, reason, and follow a plan.

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 12/2/09

After a fierce battle we were able to take Wintergrasp Fortress from the Horde and secure it for the Alliance. Wintergrasp is another nice battleground, big with a lot going on. It takes a little while to ride from one end to the other to take care of what needs to be done. I fought it on Wranngar.

The Horde were in control of the Fortress when the battle started so we had to build siege equipment and start the process of breaking down the walls to get inside. We managed to keep one of our southern towers intact throughout the process, only losing 2. This was the 3rd day in the rotation so I got the quests again which meant another 40 Stone Keeper's Shards for me. The battle actually didn't take too long to win, we were in and out in less than 20 minutes. Afterwards I took the portal there back to Dalaran and resumed fighting in Alterac Valley.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley - A Great day for the Alliance 12/1/09

The battle for Alterac Valley rages on and the Alliance was fighting like I haven't seen in quite a while. I fought in 25 battles on Wranngar, 23 wins and 2 losses. We were dominating in there today. I almost wish I needed marks or honor lol. I got a lot of kills today, 1254 to be exact, and 37,752 honor I'll never see because the cap for honor is 75,000 and I have been there for quite awhile now. I also have 100 Alterac Valley Mark of Honor which is the max on those. I am just in there for the kills and they are piling up. I can almost see that title after my name, it is dim but getting brighter :).

We won a lot of the battles by getting Galv, then getting IBT, IBGY and TP, while some went ahead and got FWGY, East and West Frostwolf Towers and the Frostwolf Relief Hut. Once the towers burned we killed Drek. We did a couple Blitz's today too and those went pretty smooth. In the last battle, which we lost, holding SHGY and SFGY where the reason. It is stupid to take SHGY when you don't have IBT and TP capped but it is really stupid to take both SHGY and SFGY unless you have all 4 capped or capping. We didn't. The other loss was directly related to someone taking SHGY and getting us wiped out of Frostwolf because the Horde didn't have any graveyards so they rezzed in their cave. From there they came right into Frostwolf in force and wiped us out.

Of course we had the usual stupid stuff going on too, people starting EFWT and WFWT capping then jumping down to stand on noob hill in front of the keep while a single Horde went up and recapped them. That happened 3 times in one battle so I guess that is just one lesson some people are not going to learn. The same thing happened in the next to last battle with the FWRH. We had it but the Horde started it capping 3 times because no one was watching it... That is not as bad, when you recap it, it comes right back. All in all it was a great day in Alterac Valley and made me proud to be Alliance for a change, except for the AFK, they are an embarrassment.

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The Battle for Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 12/1/09

Today my daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients. This is a nice battleground and I like fighting in there. We won the first one I was in. We started off on defense and although the Horde made it to the yellow gate and took it down they never made it to the door the relic is behind. The timer on that round ran out so it was our turn to be on offense.

95% of us attacked the blue gate, while one machine went to the green gate as a distraction, a couple people went AFK, and a couple people backed up the machine at the green gate. We plowed our way in without any problem. We went to, I think it was, the red door next, which ever one is in line with the blue door, and took that down. Then we were at the yellow door and busted through that. The key is to destroy the Horde siege machines before they get too far but protect ours when we are on offense. That is what we did. We crashed through the door the relic is behind and captured it. We only used about half our time, if that.

That completed my daily battleground and I turned it in for 19g86s and 1241 bonus honor. Not a bad deal. I always try to get the daily battleground done, even if it's Warsong Gulch which I really, really hate.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley 11/30/09

The Alliance was having a better day in Alterac Valley today. I fought in 22 battles on Wranngar, 15 wins and 7 losses. We were doing really well early on and then kind of tapered off later. We won the last battle I was in by 17 reinforcements.

I passed the 80,000 lifetime kill mark on Wrann tonight. Now I have less than 20,000 to go to get my "of the Alliance" title.

It is so hard to get the Alliance to work together, I am in awe that we win any battles at all. Everyone is doing their own thing most of the time, whether that is AFK, capping SHGY at the wrong time or just throwing themselves at a group of Horde and dying. I tried to get 10 people to pile into IBT so we could cap it and end the last battle but the best I got was me and one other person. Needless to say when 7 Horde showed up to take it back we were unable to hold it. We had SHGY in that battle and everyone was more worried about defending that than getting any of the objectives. It is sad. We tried the Blitz a couple times but, as usual, not enough people followed the plan and we failed. The people too stupid to follow the simple plan, all to Drek, are the ones that cry hardest when it fails...

We did have some good battles though and I got a lot of kills. And I did that without farming kills, I was actively trying to capture objectives the whole time. When we were all turtling in DB, I would go get the Coldtooth Mine, then head into FW Keep and cap the towers. Can't hold them by myself but it splits the Horde up as some come back to recap them.

A simple plan to win in AV, without the Blitz, is go get Galv, then IBT, put at least 5 people in it, get IBGY and TP, once again, at least 5 people in TP. A few people to guard IBGY. Don't take SHGY. That is a must, all that does is cause a turtle and keep us from getting our objectives. Then move down and take FWGY, FW Towers and the Relief Hut. One you have those, kill Drek. It's not rocket science but a lot of people can't do that. We lost the East and West Frostwolf Towers repeatedly today because people would start them capping then jump down to go stand on noob hill in front of the keep. One single Rogue or Druid can go in there and recap them at that point, and they did. What is so hard to understand about guarding the towers while they cap? I don't get it.

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Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 11/30/09

Eye of the Storm was my daily battleground again today. After yesterdays episode I wasn't too excited but it worked out well. I did it on Wranngar and we won the first one I was in. We were doing a lot better today by the looks of things. I always say there is a good time of the day to be in certain battlegrounds and I hit the right time today. Yesterday is an example of the wrong time.

To put it simply, we dominated. We took all 4 towers and held them. I came off the rock and went directly to FRR. There were only a couple other people that came there right from the rock, but one of them was a healer and with him healing we were able to take it. It was quite a fight though. We were outnumbered 2 to 1 but eventually killed all of them and capped the tower. When they were finally dead I had time to look around and that's when I saw we had a 4 cap going on, no Flagtards in that group. I did notice DR was unguarded and that could have caused a problem but fortunately it didn't.

That was my daily done and I went and turned it in for 19g86s and 1241 bonus honor. If only all the daily battlegrounds went that well.

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The Battle for Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 11/29/09

The Alliance was having a really bad day in Eye of the Storm today. It was some of the worst play I have seen bar none. I will say on occasion that it is some of the worst play I have seen in awhile, but this was just sickening. It took me 5 battles to get the daily done on Wranngar, 4 losses and 1 win. We will lose in EoS but usually we are able to put up a fight. Not today. It was like all the people in there just picked up their toon off eBay that morning.

I have prepared a little list of 5 ways to lose at EoS, they were all put into play today. Repeatedly. If you want to lose in EoS just follow this list, it is tried and proven.

1. Be a Flagtard. Focus on the flag and block everything else out. Just keep your eyes on the flag and don't notice any calls of incoming, don't notice if we have any towers or not, just keep your eyes on that flag.

2. Fight in the roads. This accomplishes nothing. You are not clocking the tower over while you are fighting in the road. Don't listen when someone says "stop fighting on the road, get up to the tower". Make sure you let the Horde come right up to your tower before you engage them though.

3. Leave your nodes unguarded. One single Horde probably won't come and clock it over while it is unguarded anyway. It should be safe...

4. Don't call incoming until you are dead, in the graveyard, and the flag has already burned. Someone will probably notice you are getting ganked by 5 Horde, assuming they are not focused on the flag. You can't type when you're stunned anyway...

5. Ignore calls of incoming. The one squishy you left to guard the node can probably handle it, they are just overreacting. The Horde usually only attack in ones anyway...

In the 3rd battle I came into, which was already in progress and almost over, none of the first 4 lasted long, we had the flag! WhooHoo! The major problem was, we didn't have any towers, the Horde had a 4 cap. The Flagtard with the flag was way up by the Horde rock, the Horde starting point. They were rezzing on the rock AND RUNNING RIGHT BACK TO THE FLAG TO TRY AND GET IT AGAIN!!! WITH NO TOWERS!!! These were the kind of idiots I was dealing with in the first 4 battles. A Flagtard is a scary thing.

Finally, in the 5th battle, I got in with a good group and we had a 3 cap the whole time with some flag running. The Horde weren't all that good in the first 4 battles but the Alliance was worse. In this battle we were all over them. We kept them pinned down defending their one tower with very little trouble holding our 3 towers. I finally got my daily done and turned it in for 19g86s and 1241 bonus honor. EoS used to be one of my favorite battlegrounds but with play like this I don't know anymore.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley - Another sad day for the Alliance 11/29/09

The battle for Alterac Valley goes on, I can't really say it rages on the way the Alliance have been fighting in there the last couple days. I fought in 4 battles on Wranngar, 2 wins and 2 losses.

Once again there were a lot of problems. People were not working together as a team, there is nothing new there. There was a lot of placing the blame when the zerg we were trying to do failed. The thing was though, the people that were complaining about the fail were the ones who didn't go straight to Drek without stopping for anything including Galv where they got wiped out by the Horde who were waiting for them in there. It is best to have someone who can track humanoids check to see if the place is full of Horde before everyone runs in. By everyone I mean 10+ people. We have checked in the past and when we saw it was full we just went on by and left them standing there waiting lol.

The best plan still seems to be, don't take SHGY early in the battle. Especially don't take SHGY early in the battle if we are also controlling SFGY. That really keeps all the Horde in front of us and we can't advance. Put at least 5 people in a tower and keep them there until it burns. I don't know if that is ever going to happen, a lot of these players are ADHD kids and they can't sit still that long. I can just see them bouncing off the walls. Most people are good for about 1 minute then they jump down and go somewhere else. Another thing is, if you cap a tower, guard it. I have started just leaving when someone caps a tower then jumps down and moves on. I figure screw it, I am not going to stay there by myself guarding a tower someone else capped then left because they didn't want to be bothered waiting, so I move on to more action too.

Still having the problem of people starting a cap on the East and West Frostwolf Towers, and Relief Hut, then going to hang out on the hill in front of the keep. Time and time again the Horde just have one Rogue or Druid stealth in and cap them back. It happens again and again but no one learns. I usually go into either the east or west tower, which is empty, and stay until it burns because no one else will. I always say something to the effect of how many times are we going to have to recap them before they learn. I don't think they ever will. How long has AV been going on?

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/29/09

The battle for Wintergrasp Fortress rages on. I fought in one battle for Wintergrasp today on Wranngar, it was a win.

We were defending the Fortress from the Horde and managed to hang onto it. I finally grabbed a catapult today and helped take down the southeastern tower. That was a lot of fun and pretty easy. There is really nothing you can screw up but it makes you a prime target for the Horde which are way overpowered with their Tenacity. I tried to get over to the southwestern tower but got my catapult destroyed and myself killed twice. After the second time I rezzed behind the Fortress and they were calling people to come back and defend the Fortress so I stuck around there and killed Horde. That turned out to be the wrong call though because people had to go back out towards the end of the battle and finish destroying the southwestern tower which was the last one up. The southern tower had already been destroyed. When that last tower went down we won.

I stuck around afterwards to kill some Horde with everyone else. It is nice to be able to get at them when they don't have 50,000 to 100,000 hp, they lose the Tenacity when the battle ends.

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The Battle for Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 11/28/09

The daily battleground today was Strand of the Ancients. I fought in 3 battles on Wranngar, 1 win and 2 losses. We won the second one I was in so I completed my daily. Then I decided to do another one which we lost. I received 19g86s and 1241 bonus honor for fighting in a winning battle in the daily battleground.

The Strand of the Ancients is a pretty nice battleground. There are 2 rounds in each battle, one with the Horde defending and the Alliance on offense and then we do it again with the Alliance defending and the Horde on offense. We are fighting for control of a relic. You have siege equipment in there like Wintergrasp that you have to use to break through gates. There are gun emplacements on the gates to use to try and repel the attackers. There are 2 paths to the last gate which is your goal so the attacking team can choose to attack one or both of the starting gates. The defending team has to either guess which gate the attacking team will attack or split their forces between the gates.

SoA can be a lot of fun, win or lose, and I like fighting in there. Not as much as Alterac Valley though.

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Alterac Valley - A sad day for the Alliance 11/28/09

I fought in 25 Alterac Valley battles tonight on Wranngar tonight, 11 wins and 14 losses. There was some pretty bad playing even by Alliance standards. There was no teamwork and I am surprised we won any battles at all. I don't know what was going on, some days you can't lose and get great groups and other days it's like the Special Olympics in there except most of the people don't have any talent.

We tried to Blitz a few times, there was one person that was insisting on it, but it never worked out. Most of the people in there seem incapable of following the simplest of instructions, "Everyone straight to Drek, don't stop at Galv, don't stop for anything". Half the group would stop at Galv and wipe, because half the Horde team was in there waiting for them, so they would end up back at Dun Baldar where they would get trapped by the Horde at the choke point trying to come out. You have to consider them gone. In one battle 1/4 of our team was AFK in the Valley of Harpies..... We had a lot of AFK in all the battles I was in but that is usual. They don't get many marks or much honor when I'm there, I remind people to report them and point them out.

The problem with doing the Blitz, once again, is that no one bothers to check to see if we have a tank and heals before everyone runs to Drek. In one battle I asked at the start if we had a tank and heals when everyone wanted to do the Blitz and no one answered. Half way there someone else asked again and I said "We don't worry about that until we get there, then we will have a Mage or someone tank him, all die, and end up back in Dun Baldar". I swear that is the way it goes in half these Blitz's.

We did have a couple good battles though, the ones where we are head to head with the Horde just fighting it out. I love those. A lot of kills and a lot of honor, not that I need the honor, I am in it for the kills at this point. We had a couple turtles and the Horde had quite a few turtles. The Horde love to turtle in there because the reinforcement system is set up to their advantage so they usually win. I don't think we won any on reinforcements tonight while the Horde won quite a few on reinforcements.

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The Battle for Wintergrasp 11/28/09

I only got to fight in one Wintergrasp battle on Wranngar tonight but it was enough. We won and I got my new trinket, Anvil of Titans. The Tenacity the Horde gets is incredible. Tonight they had Boss level health. I came across a Paladin with 104,000 hp... How are you supposed to kill someone like that? I mean as if the plate and the bubble isn't enough, 104,000 hp? I have attached a screen shot. We slaughtered them anyway. We ended up running the timer out.

I got all the quests today so I got another 40 Stone Keeper's Shard's. I was on tower detail in this battle. When I got in I headed right down to the southeast tower and started killing the guards there. I took out a couple of the gun emplacements and by then the siege equipment was there and they destroyed the tower. I saw someone there shooting hand held rockets at it and doing damage, I wasn't aware you could do that so next time I will pick up a rocket launcher before I head over there. We destroyed all 3 of the Hordes southern towers and had all the workshops by the end. I have 2 marks left and am not sure what, if anything, I will use my marks for in the future. I can get some of the heirloom gear, the gear that levels with you, but those pieces cost shards not marks.

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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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