Fight on the Flag

Not much to report, other than we had lots of fun and only lost one game all day. I’m sure our mail is overflowing with EOTS marks.

We also did some WSG so one of us could get the black wolf. I’m sure you’ve noticed most of the screens I take we’re basically winning. I do that because I need to heal people, and when I take a screen, I remove my cluttered UI and then push the “print screen” key. When that happens I get a good 2-3 second lag time where someone could easily die.

Here we see Huller carrying the flag in WSG. About 2-3 seconds after I took this shot, he was dead, and wondering where the heals were. Well, now you know! (And knowing is half the battle!)

First the fighting! What fun! We didn’t have a full premade, which always makes things unpredictable.

I don’t get this guy! We’re four-capping, what else are we supposed to do? I had to laugh. Hard.

Mage tower assault

We won all of our games (including a four-cap against a 14-man Doomhammer premade) except against a Kel Thuzad premade , and in that game, though we lost 2000 to about 600. We had them three capped toward the end. Our biggest challenge when not running a full <Fight on the Flag> premade is trying to get the PUGs to stop following! It’s annoying but I can’t blame them, safety in numbers and all that.

Bear form will not save you!

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Heya, just a quick note. Our guild arena teams, if you hadn’t noticed, are just here to help people with no other outlet to get points. But I am finding that week after week, the teams are full. So full that we almost had to create another team.

Trust me, even if you have crap resilience you’ll get a better score if you’re on a team with five dedicated players. Preystalker, who has 43 resilience, is on 1500s teams in 2s and 3s.  My druid Kinare, however, has 213 resilience and the team is 1270 ranked. Ouch!

The point is, you need time to build synergy between players, and you really cannot do that if you have people jumping in and out for points.

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Goofing off and being his usual self, Organdonar was jumping around on the rock formations outside of the Org PVP queue spot. He went to talk on vent to Pylith when suddenly he heard a noise…. “Zzzzzzzz… PLOP!”

Yes, boys and girls, apparently you can fish from the rock formation across the road from the pond! Considering our recent obsession with fishing I thought this was appropriate.

You can submit your own screenshots and descriptions, just ask Perle in game for her e-mail address. (Sorry not going to post here!).

During the downtime I created a new page for the tutorials we’ve posted. Also I updated the tutorial for Arathi Basin to make it more organized. I’ll be adding more pictures to the Basin guide as well. Every tutorial will be posted here first, then I will add it to the tutorials page. They will also always be included in the tag cloud to the lower right.

Also, if you want me to write a tutorial, let me know what you’re interested in.

We’re looking for someone to step up his or her role in the guild and start leading PVP excursions for guildmates on the weekdays. Said person, if consistent, will earn an officer rank with access to officer chat along with the guild invite ability of currently ranked veterans.

If you are interested, please let a current officer know in game.

Personally it would be nice to know that the organized PVP is not going to die off once we log.

Requirements below.

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We had a few good runs, but still need some work. Our most fun game was one against a Deathwing premade:

They outgeared and outclassed us in just about every way. But in the end we won, despite the disparate deaths and honorable kills columns:

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We had a good win/loss ratio, but the losses we had were frustrating. The losses boiled down to either being out geared or having too few people to make up for the pugs. I made some macros (played by Kinare) to help the pugs understand our strats.

Quote of the day

We did eventually win this game with a 5 cap. They just gave up completely. We had two games all day where they completely gave up. But I think as a guild we only played about 15 games.

An organized AB map

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After a long, hard day of working all week, many of us were eager to kill some Alliance. We banded together and headed to AB. This is some of our favorite battlegrounds. Why? Because when you use teamwork, you can accomplish anything, even beating a BG that the horde usually loses through stupidity and inattention.

At first the queues were a bit long. We usually queue from Orgrimmar to prevent Organdonar from having fishing withdrawals. The queues at one point were around 7 minutes, so many of us took up the practice.

When the going gets tough, the tough… fish

But eventually we got into AB and after that we won every game, usually with a 4-5 cap.

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