Alterac Valley 1/21/10

Believe it or not, the Alliance isn't doing to well in Alterac Valley tonight. I only fought in 3 battles, 2 on Wranngar and one on Gomorra but that was enough to see how it was going. Wranngar had 1 win and 1 loss while Gomorra had a loss. The one we won was a pre-made, otherwise it would have been on the loss side.

The pre-made was a QQ, too bad they are so full of themselves. They usually do pretty good as long as the Horde don't decide to Blitz. They try to go on and on about how great they are and how the 'pugs' are going to lose the battle for them but, basically, they are undergeared and inexperienced players that are following orders. At least they can do that. Anyway Wranngar ended up in one of those and it was a win. The other one he was in we lost to basic inexperience. I am not sure where all these inexperienced players are coming from and what happened to all the experienced players but it really sucks. Maybe I am just getting in there at the wrong time every day, I have been doing my daily's first lately, when before I was just going right into the battlegrounds.

The 2 Gomorra were in were just straight up fails. The second one was the only one we came close in and we lost that one by over 240 reinforcements. It was the same stupid shit, see Horde piling into Galv and go in after them... When you see the Horde piling into Galv you skip him. Pretty simple, leave them standing there and go by. Unfortunately the Alliance isn't smart enough to do that. The second battle, the one that was close, we might have been able to pull it off if someone hadn't capped SHGY. I really wish people would smarten up about that GY and stop capping it. There are times when it is ok, even good, to cap it but more times than not it should be left alone. Good rule of thumb then, don't cap SHGY.

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Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 1/21/10

Eye of the Storm was my daily battleground today, I did it on both Wranngar and Gomorra. Wranngar won the first one he was in but it took Gomorra 3 battles to get his win.

Wranngar got lucky and got in with a good group on his first one. We held 3 towers and ran the flag some. Those are the kind of groups I like to be in, groups that know towers are more important than the stupid flag. You get in with a group of Flagtards, people who can only see the flag and nothing else, and you will lose every time.

Gomorra was not so lucky. His first battle started off 5x15... I'm not sure what the problem is with Blizzard but starting off outnumbered 2 to 1, 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 is getting old fast. Needless to say we lost that one. The second group he got in wasn't any better. They weren't Flagtards, at least not all of them, but they really had no clue. We held 1 tower for most of that one then lost that. While we didn't have any towers we did have the flag... Flagtard in action... The 3rd group was a lot better. They weren't too responsive to calls of incoming, nor were they big on guarding nodes, all the nodes we had were completely unguarded at one time or another, but somehow we managed to hang onto 3 nodes and run the flag. We won that one by over 700 points.

I handed this in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. Season 8 opens in a week and I can start getting gear for Gomorra again and re-gear Wranngar.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley 1/20/10

There is really not too much to say about how the Alliance was doing in Alterac Valley tonight. Actually it can be summed up in one word, bad. I fought in 10 battles on Gomorra tonight, 1 win and 9 losses. We won the last battle I was in but by that time I was too disgusted to care. There was only one thing of interest tonight, the fact that the Horde had 41 players in 4 or 5 of the battles. As if it isn't enough that we start off outnumbered the Horde get extra players now? WTF is up with that? Another Blizz fail, nothing new...

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Alterac Valley - 1/19/10

I only fought in 3 battles tonight on Gomorra, 2 wins and 1 loss. We did really well in the 2 battles we won. We got Galv, at least 3 towers and killed Drek. I got some pretty good honor out of those.

The battle we lost was back to business as usual. We were doing pretty good, we had Galv down, were capping IBT and TP and had people in Frostwolf Keep capping those towers and the relief hut. The someone took SHGY. That caused all the Horde to rez at FWGY and from there they went into FWK and took everything back, wiping out our offense, then moved forward to take back TP and IBT. We ended that one in a turtle in DB. You really have to wonder how many times the Alliance is going to make the same stupid mistake before they learn or if they are even capable of learning at all.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley - 1/18/10

The battle for Alterac Valley rages on and the Alliance are still having a pretty hard time of it. I was in some pretty sad battles tonight on both Wranngar and Gomorra. Wranngar fought in 8 battles, 3 wins and 5 losses, Gomorra fought in 3 battles, all losses. The saddest part is a few of those battles we could have easily won but stupidity ruled the day.

We lost a couple battles when someone capped SHGY at the wrong time and got our offense wiped out. I believe it was the same person both battles. I can't stress enough how important it is to look and see where the Horde are going to rez, where the Alliance are and think about what will happen if you cap SHGY before capping it. People don't think and that has always been a major problem in AV, that and general lack of experience.

As usual we started off outnumbered in all the battles I fought in tonight, that is nothing new. The Horde had one Blitz, so that was nice and quick. One of the battles I was in we wasted 20 minutes at Drek when there were 10+ Horde in the room with him when all we had to do was cap another tower for the win. We did end up downing Drek in that one but we could have won it a lot sooner. The other 2 wins were also a result of us killing Drek. The Horde won quite a few of theirs on reinforcements as usual. Alterac Valley is set up to the Hordes advantage when it comes to reinforcement battles. Alterac Valley has always been set up to the Hordes advantage one way of another.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley 1/17/10

I fought in 6 battles in Alterac Valley on Gomorra tonight, 4 wins and 2 losses. That sounds pretty good but 3 of the 4 wins were pre-mades.

We killed Drek in all of the battles we won. In the 3 pre-mades we capped all the towers for maximum honor, in the other we only capped east and west Frostwolf towers. We still got some good honor out of that though, around 1300. In the 2 losses the Horde killed Vann once and won the other on reinforcements. The Horde win a lot of their battles on reinforcements.

The one the Horde won on reinforcements was a turtle and it was close, they only had 46 reinforcements left at the end. The problem was we had all 4 towers down so the only option left for the win was to kill Drek and there were not enough people there to do it. I got some pretty good honor out of that one anyway, over 1800, more than the Drek with 2 towers win. I am about 8k honor away from my next piece.

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Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 1/17/10

Today the daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. I did it on just Wranngar today.

The first battle I was in didn't do too well. We had a group of Flagtards. Flagtards are people that go right from the rock to the flag. They don't care about towers, they don't care about winning evidently, all they care about is that flag. All they can see is that flag. Flagtards lose more battles in EoS than anything else. We did manage to hang on to 2 towers for part of the battle but we were down to one a lot of the time. We had no defense at the towers we did have, everyone was at the flag. Needless to say we lost that one like we always do when the majority of the group are Flagtards. At least it didn't end up with a Horde 4 cap like so many of these Flagtard type of battles do.

In the second battle we did a lot better. We got 2 towers straight off, MT and DR, and eventually got a 3rd, BET. We held onto DR and MT but lost BET. We got FRR and hung onto those 3 until the end of the battle. We ran the flag a few times which is fine once you have at least 3 towers and not everyone abandons the towers to do it.

I handed this one in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points.

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The Battle for Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 1/16/10

Today the daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients. I hate fighting in a battleground on it's holiday weekend and I really hate it when my daily battleground turns out to be one that is having it's holiday weekend. I did this on Wranngar and Gomorra and, surprisingly, we didn't do too bad.

There were a lot of AFK as there always is on a holiday weekend, but the Horde must have had their share too. We won the first one I was in on Wranngar and the second one I was in on Gomorra.

The first one on Gomorra we didn't do too bad in I don't think, we just couldn't get to the relic in time. When it was the Horde's turn they were able to get to the relic and capture the titan portal. In Gomorra's second battle we were able to keep the Horde from getting to the relic although I am not sure how. They had the yellow gate down with 5 minutes left on the timer and I figured they would have it but they were unable to get the door down that the relic is behind. When it was our turn we hit 2 gates from the beach, hit the next 2, took down the yellow gate and eventually took down the door to the relic and captured the titan portal.

The one Wranngar was in went really smooth. We started off on defense (it seems to randomly rotate whether you start on offense or defense) and were able to keep the Horde from getting through the yellow gate and into the courtyard. When it was our turn on offense we just plowed right on through the gates, into the courtyard, took down the door to the relic and captured the portal. We did that in under 4 minutes which earned me an achievement.

I turned these in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. Gomorra can really use the bonus honor.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley 1/15/10

The battle for Alterac Valley rages on. The Alliance was doing a little better in there tonight than they have been lately but not really good. I fought in 10 battles on Gomorra, 4 wins and 6 losses. Not great but better than they have been this last week. I'll take any kind of improvement as a step in the right direction.

We started off bad. I always say there is a time of day to fight in certain battlegrounds and a time of day to stay out of them. Unfortunately Gomorra needs the honor to get geared so I haven't really had that luxury lately. We had 5 losses in a row, then 4 wins in a row and finished up with another loss. The last one I was in was really close, we lost by less than 80 reinforcements. We should have had that one, we were ahead but people got lax, that is the Alliance way. In the 4 we won we downed Drek for the win. Out of the 6 losses the Horde downed Vann twice if I remember correctly, they won the rest on turtles. The Horde win 9 out of 10 turtles because that is a reinforcement win and Alterac Valley is set up to their advantage for that.

Gomorra is about half way to his next piece as far as honor goes. I will be happy when he is finally geared, I like playing Wranngar in the battlegrounds more.

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Isle of Conquest - Daily Battleground 1/15/10

Today the daily battleground was Isle of Conquest. I did it on Wranngar and Gomorra. It took each of them 4 battles to get a win. The Alliance wasn't doing too well in there and a major part of the problem was the battles starting off so uneven. When you are in a 40x40 battleground and you are outnumbered 2 to 1, you don't stand much of a chance. Add to that the Alliance's lack of teamwork and the loss is almost assured.

Eventually we got a roughly even start, 34x40 on Wranngar and 36x40 on Gomorra, and those are the ones we won. In the first 3 on each we got steamrolled. In the majority of the losses we weren't even up to 40 players at the end. I, like many of the Alliance I'm sure, hope one day Blizzard will be able to get it right, but until then I will limit my daily battleground to 5 losses, if we don't have a win in 5 battles I drop it and see what tomorrow brings.

The Horde won a few on reinforcements which means we were putting up a good defense, sort of. The problem with that is everyone was in the keep. It is not too hard to keep them from killing your General if everyone is in the keep. Of course you're not going to win that way either. Ever. That is where the lack of experience that is so obvious in all the battlegrounds comes in. I see that happen a lot in Wintergrasp too. We won each of ours by killing the Horde General.

Anyway, they each handed this daily in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. Wranngar is capped on Honor but can use the arena points, Gomorra needs both.

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Battle for Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 1/14/10

Today the daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients again. I did it on Wranngar and Gomorra today. It was also the holiday weekend in Strand of the Ancients, or Call to Arms as it's called. You get double the honor on a holiday weekend. A holiday weekend is the worst time to fight in any battleground. One of the reasons for that is all the weekend warriors, people who only fight in the battlegrounds on their holiday weekend for the extra honor. They are usually pretty inexperienced and don't have a whole lot of enthusiasm. The other reason is all the AFK, the leeches like to get in there and soak up all the extra honor while they stand around doing nothing but taking a slot from someone who could be fighting.

Wranngar got his done on the first battle he was in, he got in with a pretty good group. We started off on defense and had no problem at all keeping the Horde from capturing the Titan Portal. They made it through the first set of gates and that was as far as they got. In round 2 when we were on offense we had no problem blasting through all the gates and working our way to the door the portal is behind. It was almost too easy, like the Horde just gave up and were waiting for their mark. We broke down the door to the Titan Relic and captured the Titan Portal. We had 2 AFK who were marked and eventually removed from the battleground.

Gomorra wasn't so lucky. The first battle he was in ended in a draw. That means neither side was able to capture the Titan Portal. A draw is the same as a loss as far as I'm concerned, you get one mark and you don't complete your daily. The next 2 battles were even worse. We had at least 3 identifiable AFK, that's a lot when you only have 15 on your team, and there were a couple more that were only doing enough to keep from getting flagged AFK. We lost those 2 to the point the Horde were farming us at the GY...

Finally in the last battle I got in with a decent group. We had good strong defense and managed to keep the Horde from breaking down the door the Titan Relic is behind. They made it all the way through the yellow gate, which is the last gate, but couldn't get the door down before the timer ran out. In round 1 we were on defense so in round 2 we were offense. We had the full 9 minutes as the Horde ran out the timer on their attempt. We hit both the blue and green gates at the same time, something we didn't do in the losing battles, and hit them from both sides. We got through the red and purple gates which leads to the yellow gate. We had no problem getting through that and to the door the Titan Relic is behind. We broke through that door and captured the Titan Portal for the win.

I handed this in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor, which Gomorra really needs, and 25 arena points which the both need. Wranngar is currently maxed out (capped) on honor.

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Alterac Valley - Enough Said 1/13/09

I am not going to get into how the Alliance was doing in Alterac Valley tonight, just suffice to say there is really nothing worth mentioning. Hopefully we will be doing well enough tomorrow to have something worth posting.

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Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 1/13/10

Today the daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. I did it on Wranngar and we won the second one I was in. The last few times I have done EoS the Alliance hadn't been doing too well in there, but today we were doing all right. It took me 2 battles to get a win.

The first battle I was in we did well enough I think, we fought right to the end and it was pretty close. Usually I like to see at least 3 towers held and less flag running but in that battle we held 2 towers and ran the flag. That is where we failed, we captured the flag less times than the Horde did. That is why 2 towers and running the flag is riskier than just holding 3 towers and forgetting about the flag.

In the second battle we did it right, we took and held DR, MT and FRR then kept the Horde busy defending BET. We held those 3 for over half the battle and ran the flag a few times. Then we lost DR and got it back. Then we lost MT and never got it back but we were far enough ahead at that point that it didn't matter. We just ran the flag a few more times and won it. We ended up winning by over 700 points. They lowered the number of points to win by 400, down to 1600 now. I guess people were complaining about how long the battles were. I liked it better when it was 2,000 points and AV didn't have reinforcements but I guess people just want to get their mark(s) and move on.

I handed this in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. I hope I don't lose my arena points when the new season starts, but I am pretty sure I will lose my ranking. Not positive but pretty sure.

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Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 1/12/10

Today the daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients. I did it on Gomorra and we won the 3rd one I was in.

I don't think we did bad in the first 2 battles, not like yesterday, we just didn't have what it took to win. I guess we were outclassed. At least we started off fairly even in numbers. We got through the yellow gate to the courtyard in both our losses but couldn't get to the Titan Portal before the timer ran out.

In the win we made it to, and through, the gate the Titan Portal is behind and captured it. We did it with quite a bit of time left on the timer too so you knew it was a win. When it is not even close you know you are either going to win, if you captured it, or lose if you didn't. When it was the Hordes turn they didn't even make it through the yellow gate before the timer ran out. I got some Artillery Master achievement on Gomorra today in one of the battles for manning a gun emplacement and doing a certain amount of damage.

I handed this daily in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. I am trying to do the daily on Gomorra every day because he really needs the honor.

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The Battle for Alterac Valley - /Sigh 1/12/10

Another really bad day for the Alliance in Alterac Valley. I fought in 25 battles on Gomorra, 6 wins and 19 losses.

Today I can't blame it all on inexperience, although there was that, the major problem today was starting off every battle severely unbalanced. We had some battles that started off 10x40. That means we were outnumbered 4 to 1. The closest start we had in any of the battles was 34x40. Out of 25 battles we did not start a single one 40x40. It is a wonder we won any at all. Blizzard needs to get off their ass and do something about this because it is just not working. If this is the best they can do, it is just another in a long list of epic fails for them.

Needless to say, if you are outnumbered 4 to 1, instead of getting ganked by 4 Horde you are now getting ganked by 6-8 Horde. The Horde are in their glory, they can actually win a battle with those odds. Most of the battles ended in a Horde win without us ever hitting 40 players on our side. It doesn't say much for the Horde when we start outnumbered by 15 players and win does it? That happened in one battle. Every battle we won we started off outnumbered and we still overcame the Horde. It doesn't say much for the Horde either to win a battle when you outnumber the opponent by 4 to 1.

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Alterac Valley - Not Alliance at it's best 1/11/10

The Alliance is still having a hard time in Alterac Valley. I am not sure what the problem is but it seems like all the players are just really inexperienced. I am not sure where they are all coming from. Are they all hitting 80 at the same time because a new expansion is coming out? Did a lot of kids get new level 80's off eBay for Christmas? If so why are they all doing AV?

I fought in 16 battles on Gomorra, 8 wins and 8 losses. You might think 50% is not too bad, but this is a battleground we were dominating in up until the end of last year, less than a month ago. At that point we were winning 80% of the battles. Now I am lucky to have a day where I hit 50%.

The main problem we had in all our losses were people not listening, which causes no teamwork. In the last battle I was in, before I decided I was wasting my time, the entire battle that was fought by the Alliance was fought in the Field of Strife, that is in the middle of the battleground. There are no objectives there. There is nothing to fight for there. Needless to say we lost that one. We had one or two people trying to cap towers but when you are holding SHGY, and we were for some reason, you need 8-10 people in a tower to cap it. Evidently 8-10 is too big a number for most these people to grasp. You try to give advice and you get people commenting with things like "WHAAAA" and "QQ". These are the idiots that won't learn, can't learn, and cost us battle after battle.

We did have some wins though, they were scattered through the losses. In those we had a couple maximum honor games, those are the ones where you have all 4 towers capped, Galv dead and still hold most if not all your towers. Another thing people don't seem to understand is you get honor for each of your towers you still hold at the end of the battle, win or lose. We had a couple where we killed Drek with a couple towers still up, usually east and west Frostwolf towers as the Alliance WILL NOT guard those. They will start them capping then jump down and stand on noob hill. One Horde player will sneak in and cap them back, they do it every time. People do not learn from this mistake. People don't seem to learn from any of their mistakes in there in this battlegroup, that is one of the reasons we are doing so badly I think.

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Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 1/11/10

Today when Gomorra picked up the daily battleground it was Strand of the Ancients. I usually get this one done in 2 battles or less. Today was an exception. I am not sure why the Alliance in Bloodlust are doing so bad in all battlegrounds lately but it is frustrating. More reason to transfer to a better battlegroup.

It took me 5 battles to get a win today. 5 is the most I will do to get a daily done, if I can't get a good enough group in 5 battles to get a win I just drop it and see what tomorrow brings. I am not sure why most of the people were there, it certainly wasn't to win a SoA. In 2 of the losses we didn't even get through the second gate. In one of the battles we had 5 AFK, that's 1/3 of our team doing nothing. No wonder we can't win anything. This AFK problem isn't just in SoA, it is out of control in all the battlegrounds.

After having the Horde walk all over us in 4 battles we finally got a half way decent group for the 5th battle. We hit both gates at once and got through the blue one. That lead us through the purple one and on to the yellow one. We got through that and to the gate the relic is behind in about 3 minutes. From there we took that gate down, exposing the relic, and captured the portal.

Then it was the Hordes turn. They got through the second gates but didn't get through the yellow gate.

What a difference between groups. I waited about 15 minutes between each try to try and get away from the bad groups but I was just getting bad group after bad group until the last one.

Anyway we won it in the 5th battle and I turned the daily in for 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor, which Gomorra can really use, and 25 arena points. Hopefully tomorrow it will be Alterac Valley which is the only battleground I fell like fighting in anymore. We might not be winning a lot on there but it is still my favorite.

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More Alterac Valley 1/10/10

I fought in Alterac Valley some more on Gomorra today. The Alliance is still not doing great in there. I fought in 16 battles, 7 wins and 9 losses.

During the course of the day I went from really bad groups, into really good groups, and back into really bad groups. All the wins I had were in the middle. I have to stick with it though as I need the honor for gear on Gomorra.

We had a lot of inexperienced people in there again. I see a lot of people getting their achievement for their first win in there when we do have a win. That right there tells you they don't have a lot of experience in there, at least not on the character they are on. The things people say in there too are a dead giveaway that they have no experience. Things like "Kill Drek" when we have 5 or 6 people at Drek and no towers down. "Don't give the Horde SHGY" is another one, that is usually a fatal mistake.

Unfortunately for Gomorra the lack of experienced players in there really hurts. It is worse for him than it is for Wranngar who is a melee fighter. Gomorra is a caster, he wears cloth. He is not made for melee combat. The last thing he wants is to have to come into actual contact with the enemy. He needs a good front line to stand behind and cast. He has a couple things to get people off him, fear and howl of terror which is a group fear, but it is hard to cast that when 5 or 6 people are hitting you at the same time, as damage knocks back the casting. The healers have it pretty bad too in inexperienced groups, they are the first ones to get targeted because you want to kill the healers first so the enemy has no heals.

In the good groups I had a really good time, I was able to stand back behind a good front line and cast. There were a couple battles I got through without a death in those. As poorly geared as Gomorra is at the moment he was still able to wrack up over 700,000 damage in one battle and over 400,000 in all the others. With a bad group he usually does around 250,000 as he spends a lot of time dead...

I did get 2 new pieces of gear in the last couple days, Deadly Gladiator's Felweave Amice which I socketed with a Potent Ametrine and then inscribed with Greater Inscription of the Storm. Today I got Furious Gladiator's Cuffs of Dominance. I have about 4,000 honor left, I need about 45,000 more for my next piece.

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Alterac Valley - Another Day 1/9/10

The Alliance isn't doing great in Alterac Valley, but they are doing better than they have been. I fought in 13 battles on Gomorra tonight, 8 wins and 5 losses.

We actually had some teamwork going on in a few of them. We did a couple where we went to Frostwolf Keep and took the towers and relief hut then killed Drek when the towers burned. That was pretty much the same group for those. We also got Glav in those battles. You can get Galv and still Blitz, we have done it a few times, not on Gomorra though, that's how long it has been since we pulled off a blitz. The Horde usually don't have a problem doing a Blitz and killing Vann with 4 towers up because they work together as a team and all seem to follow one plan.

Basically any sensible plan will win in AV if everyone follows it. That is the problem, some people are going to do their own thing, they do the same thing every time no matter what the plan is. It is too bad the raid leader can't just kick people from the battleground, that would solve a lot of problems. One thing that happens a lot is, someone will come up with a plan the majority agrees to, then right as the gate opens someone else will start spamming a different plan, then no one knows what to do. That happens way too often.

We had 2 wipes tonight because someone capped SHGY and the Horde rezzed at FWGY and just rolled into the keep and wiped out our offense. I can't stress enough that people need to look at where the Horde will rez, look where the Alliance are, and think before they cap something. If the Horde are going to rez right on top of the offense, don't do it. It's not rocket science but so many people can't seem to get it right. We also had the people that insisted that we hold SHGY. Needless to say those ended up in a turtle and loss for us. Holding SHGY keeps the Horde in front of us and we can't advance, how hard is that to figure out? The sad part is people still can't see it when you are telling them while it is happening.

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Alterac Valley - The Battle Rages On 1/8/10

I fought in a bunch of battles for Alterac Valley tonight on Gomorra and a couple on Wranngar. The Alliance wasn't doing too well in there tonight. I had 8 wins and 7 losses on Gomorra and 2 losses on Wranngar.

The major problem is still lack of teamwork. When someone comes up with a plan and the majority agrees to it then that is what the whole team should be doing. Unfortunately that is not the case. If the plan is to Blitz and you have people going after towers, going after Glav (Whom you can get and still Blitz) and basically hanging out in the cave for a couple minutes after the gate goes up, then it's not going to work. Like any plan, it only works if people follow it. The majority of the Alliance players are too stupid to realize that and screw themselves out of a win time and time again. These same idiots that didn't go to Drek for the Blitz are the ones saying later, "I told you it wouldn't work". The Horde don't have any problem doing the Blitz because they work as a team.

An overall lack of experience was also a problem tonight. You can tell some of these people have no clue what they are doing in there. I did have come good groups tonight though. We did win 5 battles in a row before the group thinned out or people went to work, whatever. So the possibility of winning is there, if you have the right people. Unfortunately the right people don't seem to play often enough. Almost all of our losses ended with us turtling in Dun Baldar. A couple of those weren't too bad though, I got A LOT of kills on Gomorra tonight. Those were the ones where the group didn't suck too bad, we were just way outnumbered at the start and couldn't recover. As a caster Gomorra needs to be able to stand behind the front line and cast. As long as there are decent people manning the front line he can do that. In a few of these battles the peoples skill level was so bad the Horde would just run right over the front line and then run right over the casters. Most casters wear cloth, they are not made for melee combat.

Another ongoing problem is the AFK, the problem is really out of control. When you are starting out with the Horde outnumbering you 4 to 1, then 5 of the 10 people there are AFK, you are not going to be able to recover from that. Blizzard needs to get off their ass and do something about this problem. Just saying they are doing something about it isn't good enough. It is obvious, by reporting and AFKing the same people out of the battleground day after day, week after week, that Blizzard is doing nothing about it. Blizzard needs to start taking gear, honor and titles away from these repeat offenders and start laying down some heavy bans. People will continue to do it as long as there are no consequences for doing it. If they were to lose everything and get banned for a month then they would think twice about running bots, which is supposed to be a account termination offense, or just going in and staying in the cave.

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