Fight on the Flag

We did some guild premades Saturday and the group ranged from eight to 12 people. Not all were guildies (Hai2u Aryx and Xblue!), but friends of guild are always welcome here Don’t hesitate to ask to join us in PVP.

Anyway, we initially were going to just do AV. As a perverted test, I was going to see how long it would really take us to get into the other battlegrounds.  To my intense surprise, we got in near immediately to Basin:

The same happened for a few WSG games, and it seemed premades were back. Unfortunately we were fighting pugs the whole time. It made me wonder if Blizzard had stealth fixed it.

Alas, we queued for WSG again, and the timer climbed from 23 minutes to 38 minutes to more than an hour.

We didn’t take the queue, which to me explains why we had faced so many pugs in the previous games. Poor pugs. They’re still getting stomped by premades because the premades don’t like waiting an hour or more to kill people. Man, I really feel for those puggers…. Oh wait… Hmm.. This isn’t working…

You can’t expect me to feel sorry for them can you? I didn’t think so.

We went into AV to mix it up old school style! First we defended Galv, which always breaks up the Alliance charge.

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Ever since he joined the guild, Bleeder has really been about one thing: PVP. He’s been a leader for a while so it’s only fitting that he have the title to boot.

Thanks man! Now you’re an officer. I’m not sure what that means, other than you get officer chat (which we rarely use by the way unless we’re booting someone because they’re annoying).

Oh, and here’s a random pic of an AB fight we did yesterday when we had a 11/15 premade:

Notice LM under control and two more nodes under assault. We 5-capped that game.

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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Basin weekend is coming up and I thought I’d resurrect a very old guide I wrote about how to fight on the flag. Arathi Basin is perhaps the most frustrating battleground because if you go in there by yourself, nobody fights on the flag, let alone guards it.

A lonely flag

Well, I’m here to help you learn to fight on the flag, the <Fight on the Flag> way!

1. Out of the gates
2. Guarding the flag
3. Assaulting the flag
4. Defending the map
5. Ending the game

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Obligatory opening quote (from AB):

We did quite a bit of Alterac Valley today, as it is AV weekend. Bright and early we started out competing for players in a premade AV. Honestly I didn’t like it much. It was like herding cats. People seem to think that they can join a premade and it magically makes them suck less. No. It doesn’t.

After reaching a high point of about 25 players, we had a few people leave, either out of boredom or frustration (we have long “turtle” games because we actually have fun in PVP instead of running like zombies to the end). Then we had the really cool people left, mostly from guild but a few who were not. At least I added a couple more to my friends list

And we also did some AB (one EOTS for the daily). We three to five capped each AB we joined, as we had about seven players.

Oh and we were up against a top-tier guild from another server (I forget which one). They had two rogues with Twinblades of Azzinoth.

But I look like Illidan, how can I still suck?! 

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