New Blog - WoW Broadcaster

Starting today I will be posting all my battleground experiences at my new blog, WoW Broadcaster. I decided to start a blog dealing strictly with battlegrounds to kind of separate things a little. I originally started out blogging about the battlegrounds on Wordpress with A WoW Battleground Weblog a couple years ago, but switched to Blogger and started A World of Warcraft Blog because Wordpress doesn't allow you to put Adsense on your blogs there. I will be updating the new blog every day with my battleground experiences. I will continue updating this blog every day with everything else World of Warcraft related.

Winning Alterac Valley Strat

Here is a battle plan someone was posting in AV using a Macro. I copied the text and created a Macro from it for my own use because it was working so well. Of course it only works if everyone follows it. Unfortunately the Alliance have a real problem following even the simplest plans for some reason, at least in my battle group they do, but if most people do, it will work. The way I have it, due to size, it is a 2 part Macro but the second part is optional.

This is the first (Main) Macro, I named this one AV-1:

/bg GRP 1-3 GO TO RH, NO STOPPING FOR ANYTHING!
/bg GRP 4 CAP FrostWolf GraveYard and Defend!
/bg GRP 5-6 Cap Tower Point
/bg GRP 7-8 Cap IceBlood Tower and kill Galv if possible for extra honor!

Here is the second (Optional) Macro, I named this one AV-2:

/bg DO NOT DEF Stonehearth GY... so they CAN NOT rez at RH
/bg Report AFK

If you are going to use both they are meant to be hit one after the other. If you don't know how to put this into a Macro, it is easy following the steps below.

1. Type /macro in chat to open the Macro program.
2. Click on "New"
3. Select a icon for, and name, your Macro
4. Save it
5. Paste the above AV-1 text into the Macro (Everything starting with /bg)
6, Repeat for AV-2
7. It is automatically saved so just drag the icon(s) into your tool bar.

You're done.

Good Luck :)

-Wranngar

Eye of the Storm 6/1/09

I did a couple Eye of the Storm battles on Wranngar today. The Alliance was doing pretty well in there, we won both of them with ease.

Both the battles went pretty much the same, we took DR, MT and FRR at the start and fought for BET while running the flag. Fighting for BET keeps the Horde at BET and leaves us open to run the flag and we only need a couple people at each node to call incomings.

I was guarding DR for the most part, we didn't have too much trouble, a couple attacks from BET but nothing we couldn't handle.

Wintergrasp 2/15/09

I got back on Wranngar to see if I could get one more Wintergrasp in tonight. I got lucky, the battle was starting in 13 minutes. I joined a raid group and we all got buffed up, ate, and got ready for battle. I put out a Fish Feast which is always a big hit in the battlegrounds. When we started I believe we had 2 full raid groups, that would be 80 people total, plus another raid group started. I don't know what, if any, the limit is in Wintergrasp. We got in there and basically dominated the Horde. We were on offense meaning we were attacking the Keep and we got in pretty quick. We wiped out all the Horde that were inside trying to defend and then assaulted the Keep itself. We got in in no time and won the battle. It went really quick. The last one I was in earlier I got in while it was in progress and it lasted twice as long as this one did and we lost. I had no deaths in this battle thanks mostly to some really good healers but I got a bunch of kills and killing blows in :). I got another Stone Keeper's Shard bringing my grand total to 8.

Battlegrounds & More 2/10/09

Today's daily battleground was Alterac Valley again so I skipped it. Instead I fought in 9 Eye of the Storm on Wranngar, 4 wins and 5 losses. The Alliance wasn't having a good night in EoS at all. The main problem I saw was not that the Horde had good groups, it was all the flagtards on the Alliance side. When you only have one tower, and are on the verge of losing that because there are only a couple people defending it, you don't need 11+ people going after the flag. There have also been a lot of AFK in EoS which is unusual and really hurts the team because at 15x15 you need everyone down on the field fighting. I wanted to fight in Wintergrasp but I never got in there.

The daily cooking was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf again for the 4th or is it 5th day in a row..... Way to go Blizzard, way to throw a little variety in there so it dosen't get borning. Anyway I headed down into the Underbelly under Dalaran in search of Infused Mushrooms. I have been fishing down there lately and there is one that spawns in my favorite fishing spot so I headed over there and got it, then I started fishing and waited until it spawned again. After picking it I went back to fishing and so on until I had the 4 I needed. I grabbed a couple Chilled Meat out of the bank and cooked it up. When I had my Infused Mushroom Meatloaf I delivered it, I have no problem finding the place as I have been going there for the last 4 or 5 days, in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag which had 3 Northern Spices and another Dalaran Cooking Award in it. Not a bad haul today and tomorrow I will be able to get another recipe. The will only leave 7 left.

I fished some during the daily cooking and then some more between battles. I didn't get the Giant Sewer Rat but I did get a bunch of other stuff. I got 36 Sewer Carp, 11 Magic Eaters, 5 Drowned Rats, 3 Partially Eaten Fish, 2 Empty Vials, 1 Leaded Vial and 1 Crystal Vial. Nothing worth anything today but eventually I will get the Giant Sewer Rat, I just have to keep plugging away at it. I have been going between battles to break things up a little, that way I don't get bored of the battlegrounds and don't get too, too bored fishing.

Wranngar 2/9/09

I got on Wranngar for a while tonight and got the daily cooking in Dalaran done. That was about it for daily's today. The daily cooking was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf again. I headed down into the Underbelly to get my 4 Infused Mushrooms and got them pretty quick. I headed over to the bank for a couple Chilled Meat to cook them up with. Once I had it cooked I delivered it in exchange for a Dalaran Cooking Award, 9g93s and a Small Spice Bag. Today the Small Spice Bag only had 3 Northern Spices in it. Not the best haul. I got another recipe today and cooked that. I now only have 8 recipes left until I get my chef title. There are 45 recipes in Northrend and you have to have, and have cooked, all of them to get the chef title.

I fought in my first Wintergrasp battle today. I was so focused on trying to figure out what was going on that I forgot take pictures. I went in there with the intention of taking lots of pictures but forgot all about that once I got in there. We won it. I think we were the defenders. I fought in 9 Eye of the Storm battles, 8 wins and 1 loss. The daily battleground today was Alterac Valley but I won't go in there anymore because of the imbalance in numbers when the battle starts. It doesn't take long to lose when we are outnumbered 4 to 1 and half our 10 players are AFK. In Eye of the Storm we were doing well for the most part although I was in a few groups where the outcome was questionable right until the end. They were leaving towers unguarded to go after more towers, way too many people were going for the flag instead of trying to get more towers or defending the ones we had. We also had some pretty good groups where we had 4 caps going on.

I did a bunch more fishing in the Underbelly under Dalaran on and off today. I did some fishing between battlegrounds to kind of break things up a little. While I was fishing someone else who was fishing right next to me got the Giant Sewer Rat and completed the I Smell A Giant Rat Achievement so I know I am in the right place, now I just need my turn. I got a lot of stuff fishing today, it is like a toxic waste dump down there with all the vials you fish up. It was funny because I was fishing right next to a spawn point for an Infused Mushroom so people were constantly stopping by for that. All in all today I caught:

126 Sewer Carp
48 Magic Eater
12 Empty Vial
10 Partially Eaten Fish
7 Drowned Rat
2 Leaded Vial
1 Crystal Vial
1 Imbued Vial

Really nothing useful there at all but I am going to keep plugging away at this one a little every day until I get my Giant Sewer Rat. It is a nice break to run down there and do a little fishing between battles.

Fishing 2/1/09

I did some fishing on Wranngar today to restock my supplies and make some more buff food. I fished for about an hour in Grizzly Hills and Borean Tundra. During that time I got:

62 Pygmy Suckerfish
44 Musselback Sculpin
42 Glacial Salmon
16 Nettlefish
12 Bonescale Snapper
4 Fangtooth Herring
1 Dragonfin Angelfish
7 Cobalt Ore
8 Frostweave Cloth

Quite a variety of stuff you get when you are fishing. I get the Frostweave Cloth and the Cobalt Ore from crates I catch while fishing. I will be able to make 20 more Fish Feast now that I have the mats. They are a big hit in the battlegrounds. I think I am going to do some more fishing a little later along with some skinning so I can get my Leatherworking up.

I got back on and did some more fishing, I completed the Outland Angler and Northrend Angler Achievements today. I also went and fished up some more Deep Sea Monsterbelly and Moonglow Cuttlefish so I will have some on hand when I need them. I need to cook some of the meat and fish I have in the guild bank but I want to save my Northern Spices for the cooking I will have to do to complete the Northrend Gourmet Achievement.

I did some more fishing tonight trying to get the I Smell A Giant Rat Achievement. That had me fishing in the sewers below Dalaran, in the Underbelly. I didn't get a Giant Sewer Rat but I did get 100 Sewer Carp, 22 Magic Eaters, 5 Partially Eaten Fish, 2 Drowned Rats, 1 Leaded Vial, 1 Imbued Vial and 8 Empty Vial. It's like a medical waste dump down there. I put the limit at 100 Sewer Carp. That is how many I will catch a day trying to get this Achievement done. The Magic Eaters transform you into different things or sometimes just buffs you.

Wranngar 1/28/09 - Round II

I got back on Wranngar for a little while tonight. I did three more battlegrounds, Eye of the Storm, one win and two losses. The one that we won I got in about three seconds before it ended. I didn't get a mark of honor but I did get 248 honor. The other two were pretty bad, we held one tower in each and we had a tough time doing that. I looked into a couple top end enchants for my new Mace. One I like will run me about 1300 gold and the other will cost me about 350 gold. Not too hard a decision :). I will start gathering the mats tomorrow.

Wranngar 1/26/09 - II

I got back on Wranngar tonight and did some battlegrounds. I did 2 Strand of the Ancients, both losses, and 3 more Eye of the Storm, 2 wins and 1 loss. The group in Strand of the Ancients was pretty bad in both battles, we got slaughtered. In the Eye of the Storm we had a good group for 2 of the battles and then a pretty poor one for the third battle which we lost. In the first 2 battles we ended up with 4 towers at the end of the battle. In the 3rd battle we started out with 3 towers and ended up with 1. We had 2 people defending that tower, 10 people trying for the flag, 2 people fighting on the road and one AFK. All in all a pretty bad group. On the plus side I got a Black Battlestrider tonight with some of the marks of honor I have. I really like it. It looks way too small for me, like a compact mount :).

Wranngar 1/13/09

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran on Wranngar and got another Dalaran Cooking Award which allowed me to get Recipe: Dragonfin Filet. I cooked up 4 of them because I needed it for the North Rend Gourmet Cooking Achievement and that got my cooking to 428. I also got 3 Northern Spices in my Small Spice Bag from that daily. I went and did the daily fishing and cooking in Outlands too. It only took a few minutes but I didn't get anything good. After that I went into the battlegrounds. The daily was Alterac Valley and I fought in two of them but stopped because they were taking forever to get into and were so imbalanced once I did get in. We had one battle that was 11 Allaince versus 40 Horde, a little uneven. Anyway I fought in 2 battles there and they were both losses. Then I went into the Strand of the Ancients. I fought in 3 battles in there, 1 win and 2 losses. I am still undecided how I feel about this battleground. Sometimes I really like it and other times not so much. The was one incident in the first loss we had where I died right before the Horde captured the Titan Relic and all of a sudden there was a load screen and I found myself in Westfall at the graveyard with a 15 minute deserter debuff on me. Strange thing is I queued for the battleground out of Darnassus so I am not sure how I eneded up there. I might get on a little later and do a few more battlegrounds.

Wranngar 1/7/09

I finished up my exploring on Wranngar tonight. It took me forever to get Bloodmyst Isle cleared but I did and I got my "the Explorer" title. I also did the daily cooking quest and worked on my cooking some. I went out and farmed a bunch of meat and fish for cooking and also for the North Rend Gourmet Achievement. I got my fishing up to 391 and my cooking up to 427. I also have a lot of buff food in the guild bank again. I helped out Salintu, a guildie, in Nagrand on a few Elite quests. Tomorrow all I have to do is bake a Delicious Chocolate Cake and I will complete the Outland Gourmet Achievement. Tomorrow I will get back into the battlegrounds, hopefully the Alliance is doing better. I also had the opportunity to check out a band performing at the World's End Tavern in Shattrath.

Wranngar 1/6/09

I did my daily cooking in Dalaran on Wranngar then headed over to Kalimdor and did some more exploring. I am pretty close to finishing up there, I have Durotar to explore and Bloodmyst Isle to finish up. I will get that done tomorrow and be done with it. After that I will be able to get back to the battlegrounds and daily's.

Wranngar 1/5/09

I did the daily cooking in Dalaran on Wranngar tonight. I had to go out and hunt down some chilled meat to complete it. Once I had that done I headed over to Kalimdor and did some more exploring. I got a few places opened up and it seems to be moving right along. Maybe I will be able to finish up the exploring tomorrow or the day after. The Alliance is doing so bad in the battlegrounds I was in I am just discouraged. Maybe disgusted is a better word. I guess I will try the battlegrounds again when I am done exploring.

Wranngar 12/29/08

I got Wranngar to level 80 today. I hit 80 at 4:14PM Eastern time on 12/29/08. I ran out of quests and I ended up hitting 80 doing the dailys in Icecrown. I went and got my training which ran me close to 200 gold, used my talent point then headed to Storm Peaks to do some skinning. I got enough leather to make another Inscription bag which I sent to a guild member who could use it. That gave me another point in Leatherworking, my skill is now 418. I will work on that some more. Right now I am just happy to have finally gotten to 80. If I get back on later I am going to hit the battlegrounds, I have been waiting a long time to get back into them. After that I will probably work on Wrangar.

Update: I did some battlegrounds on Wranngar tonight. I fought in 4 AV's, all losses. It is also the daily battleground today. The Alliance was doing really bad in all 4 battles. We only had one battle where we were in Frostwolf Keep and ready to down Drek but the Horde got Vann first. In the other 3 we lost on reinforcements defending the cave. I got 76 kills and around 1200 honor so it wasn't too bad. It just felt soooo good to be back in the battlegrounds :). I am interested in winning right now though because I need honor. After that I went and did some exploring. I have all of Outlands explored and got the Achievement for that, now I am working on Azeroth. After that I will have to do Kalimdor and I will have Eastern Kingdoms done. All that will leave is North Rend. I have about half of that explored. Once I have all of those explored I will get the title: Explorer.

Wranngar 12/26/08

I played Wranngar for a while tonight and am now 2 bars away from level 78. I have a couple days off starting day after tomorrow so I will hit 80 then, no problem. I am still wearing all my level 70 PvP gear which some of my friends find pretty amusing. It is still working out well for me so why change it. I was questing in Icecrown again tonight and haven't got a quest yet I was unable to do solo. I still have some of the better quest reward gear so I might try that on and see what it does for me. I figured to start really saving the better stuff from the last 2 levels, 78 & 79. I can also make some pretty nice blue DPS gear so I will see what I can come up with. I am looking forward to hitting 80 and getting back into the battlegrounds. When I am well geared from that I will start doing arena. Once I get a full arena set I will get back into the battlegrounds and work on my 100,000 kills. I am sure I will be doing battlegrounds while I am doing arena anyway. I did the daily fishing and cooking quests today but forgot to check and see if I got credit for them.

Wranngar 12/23/08

I played Wranngar some more tonight. I got him to about the half way point. I was questing in Sholazar Basin. I did a few easy quests that gave some pretty good XP but then it was getting late so I had to log off. Hopefully I will get to level 78 tomorrow. I was toying with the idea of doing some battlegrounds when I hit 76 but then I wanted to get to 77 so I could fly in North Rend, now I think I will wait until 80 to do battlegrounds. I like being at the top of the food chain in the battlegrounds :). I also did the daily cooking and fishing quests today but didn't get anything exciting from them. I think tomorrow is the last day I need to do them before I get the Achievement for doing a daily 5 consecutive days.

Wranngar 12/13/08

I played Wranngar for a few hours tonight and got about 7 bars XP. I am questing in Grizzly Hills but the quests seem pretty thin. I don't even see a lot that are out of level for me. I think I will be able to get to level 74 tomorrow if I put my mind to it. I want to get to 76 and get back into AV for a few battles. I really miss the battlegrounds but it is useless for me to go in there now, I would just get owned. The quests in Grizzly Hills are interesting and pretty easy. They give good XP and the rewards aren't too bad. Some of the gear is ok, lots of attack power, good stamina, strength and agility. I have been keeping some of the rewards and when I get a full set I will try it on and see what it does for me. I don't really think it will be better than my current gear but we will see. I also explored Howling Fjord today too. I tried to open the map and it looks open but I must have missed discovering something because I didn't get the achievement. I got it in Grizzly Hills and Dragonblight. Howling Fjord is lower level than Grizzly Hills so I won't be questing there, I was only Getting about 3/4 the XP there that I am getting in Grizzly Hills.

Battlegrounds 11/08/08

The daily today was Alterac Valley and I did it on Wranngar. I didn't have any time to play the last few days so I felt good to get on today. It took 3 battles in AV to get a win and get the daily done. I ended up fighting in 7 battles altogether, 2 wins and 5 losses. Needless to say the Alliance isn't doing any better in AV. There was only one battle where the Alliance held SHGY and cost us the battle though so that is getting better. In the other losses a couple were close and the others was just poor playing. I hope to get on and do some more later. I got Wranngar's hairstyle changed as part of an Achievement but I changed it back today. Attached is a shot of what his hair looked like before I changed it back. I thought it made my ears look like they were sticking out.

Battlegrounds 11/3/08

I fought in 3 Arathi Basin battles tonight on Wranngar. It was my daily again and it took 3 to finally get a win. Not as bad as last night but not great. The first battle I got into was already in progress. I thought we were going to win that one for a little while until I realized the fact we had 3 nodes when I came in was pure luck. After watching the other players perform I knew we were going to lose. It wasn't that they were playing poorly, they just weren't thinking, an all too common problem for the Alliance. They were leaving nodes with one person to guard it if they left any at all. I saw a few occasions where there was no one at a node. They were constantly on the move trying to get another base, leaving the ones they had poorly guarded, and the Horde were coming along and taking them. The next one really wasn't any better. I got in that one at the start and we were doing ok for a little while then it was back to one or none at a node and half way through the battle the majority of our team was at the Stables trying to get that back. Rational thinking would dictate if the majority of the Horde are there then there are some Horde bases left pretty much empty. No one could be torn away from the Stables though and we lost that one too. In the last battle I was in we actually had a 5 cap going on for a minute then we held 3 and had a 4th on and off. We won that one by about 600 points. Anyway I got my daily battleground done.

Battlegrounds 11/2/08

Today's daily battleground was Arathi Basin. I fought in 7 battles on Wranngar before we finally got a win. I had some pretty bad groups but the last 2 were pretty good. We were very evenly matched in the next to the last group, they won 1990/2000. That got them an Achievement too, winning an AB by 10 points :(. In the last group we were doing good, we had a 3 cap almost all the time, a 4 cap most the time and a 5 cap for a minute or two. We won that one by over 1,000 points but no Achievement in that. I am still happy I got the Blitz done in AV yesterday. I thought that one would take foever. I also fought in one losing AV tonight. We weren't doing too bad in it but the Horde got Vann down before we could get Drek down. We got Galv in that one too so we got some pretty good honor anyway. I have over 55,000 kills now, less than 45,000 to go for my title.