Battlegrounds 8/14/08

Today's daily battleground was Arathi Basin. We didn't do too well in there, overall I had 4 wins and 4 losses but I got my daily done. The daily pays 11g99s, 419 honor and I also got the 3 Arathi Basin Mark of Honor for winning. After I had finally won I went back in for some more and had 3 good groups where we had two 4 caps and a 5 cap. I only have about 60 of those marks as I used some to buy some gear so I need to build those back up along with WSG marks. I went on to fight in 9 Eye of the Storm battles, 6 wins and 3 losses. We had some good groups and some bad groups, with a couple of the good groups we had 4 caps and held the Horde on their rock. I also fought in 5 AV's, 3 wins and 2 losses so that wasn't a really bad day in AV. We killed Drek in all of our wins and both of our losses involved people going for Galv first which usually ends in a loss and in one of them they defended SHGY which almost always ends in a loss. Overall it seemed like the quality of players was better today. As usual we had a lot of AFK in AV but they are getting reported more and more and people are asking me about the TuringTest AFK Reporter when I post the Leechers/AFK and they are saying they are going to download it. If only 5 people in every battleground had this mod AFK would be a thing of the past as they just would not be able to get away with it. If Blizzard put a little effort in and started removing them from the battlegrounds, say after 3 minutes, and banning them from battlegrounds for a certain amount of time each time, and maybe permanently after so many, I think it would go a long way to solving the problem too.

Daily's 8/14/08

I only did the daily fishing again today, it was Bait Bandits and I did it on Wranngar. I flew over to my spot at the waterfall outside Tuurem and got my Blackfin Darter on the first cast. Actually I got a little sidetracked and went to help capture the Spirit Towers in the Bone Wastes before I went fishing. The Horde ended up getting them which is unusual, the Alliance has them 9 times out of 10. Anyway after I got my fish I headed back to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, to turn it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. I got 6g71s98c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and an Ornate Drinking Stein which I sold to a vendor for 11 gold. Nothing exciting today but at least the quest was different today and I know there are still some good rewards to be had here so I will keep plugging away at it.

Stratholme 8/13/08

I was helping someone in Stratholme on Wranngar today. We went in and got their quest done then me and one of the other people, Apothiss a 70 Rogue decided to try for the Baron's Mount, the Deathcharger's Reins. We ended up doing 2 runs but we didn't have any luck. It ended up costing me over 11 gold in repairs. The first run we did while we were still in there and the second run we went in through the service entrance and that cuts down a lot of time. This is a skeletal mount like the undead priests ride. I was on Wranngar but I would really like to have it for Gomorra, he would look a lot better on it than Wranngar would. The problem with Gomorra is he can't stealth and it would take a lot more time and work to get it on him.

Battlegrounds 8/13/08

Another disappointing day for the Alliance in the battlegrounds. I fought in 9 battles total, 2 Eye of the Storm, 1 win, 1 loss, 1 AB, a loss, 4 WSG which was the daily, 1 win and 4 losses, and 2 AV both losses. I don't know what is wrong with the Alliance lately but they can't seem to get it together and win anything. AV was the typical blend of stupidity, AFK and generally people not working together. We came close in one of the 2 battles but by close I mean we were in FW Keep capping towers when the Horde killed Vann. It is sad to see so many people in DB while the Horde are capping bunkers and they aren't doing anything, they are AFK. In Eye of the Storm, a battleground we usually dominate in, people were more interested in getting the flag than they were in getting or defending towers. At one point I was guarding FRR alone, and everyone left MT to go to the middle to get the flag. Needless to say the Horde came in and took MT then 4 of them overran me at FRR to take that too. At that point we didn't even have a tower to bring a flag too but people were still in the middle trying to get the flag. AB was a wash, people were everywhere in one's and two's, no one bothering to defend the nodes we had. In WSG, which was my daily, eveyone was fighting in the middle, there was no support for the flag carrier and when the Horde had our flag no one was bothering to go after it or support me when I had the flag, they were in the middle fighting..... Definitely no sign of teamwork at all. Anyway we won the 4th battle I was in so I finally got my daily done and collected my 11g99s, 419 honor and 3 Warsong Gulch Mark of Honor. Hopefully tomorrow will bring a better class of players.

Daily's 8/13/08

I only did the one daily again today, the daily fishing. It was Crocolisks in the City and I did it on Wranngar. I took the portal to Stormwind and went to my spot in the canals by the Mage District where you portal in. I got my Baby Crocolisk in 8 casts and headed back to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, to turn it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. There was nothing exciting in there today, I got 7g11s87c, 6 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Broken Spyglass. After yesterdays reward though I wasn't too disappointed. I will keep plugging away at this one as there are still some good rewards to be had.

Daily's 8/12/08

The only daily I did today was the fishing. It was Crocolisks in the City and I did it on Wranngar. I took the portal from Shatt to Stormwind and went out to the canals. I tried a different spot today near where I usually fish. I got my Baby Crocolisk in 11 casts which was good as the fish I catch there are really low level and not worth keeping. My hearthstone was burned because I used it to go from Darnassus to Shatt so I did a few battlegrounds in Stormwind while I waited for it to cool down. Once it was cool I hearted back to Shatt then flew over to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, and turned in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. Usually the rewards aren't great but once in awhile they throw you something to keep you interested and today was one of those days. My Bag of Fishing Treasures had 6g98s19c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks, a Piece of Polished Driftwood and the reward that made it worthwhile, an Eye of the Sea. That goes for about 350 gold on the auction house if I decided to sell it but I am going to hang onto it for future use. I am still holding out for The 2 Ring but this was a nice reward just the same and reminds me why I keep doing this quest.

Battlegrounds 8/11/08

Another day of failure for the Alliance in the battlegrounds. Well in AV anyway. Eye of the Storm was today's daily and I got it done on my second battle. I was fighting on Wranngar as usual. I got the 11g99s and 419 extra honor for that. Then I went into AV to do some of those. We ended up winning 2 and losing 6. There were a lot of AFK in there as there always is but at least people are getting sick of it and reporting them. I list all the AFK every 5 minutes or so to make sure people know who to mark. Some people I list say they are not AFK but when they have been in there for 10-15 minutes and have 0 damage and 0 heals or only around 1,000 of either they are AFK. Usually the heals are from healing themselves. Blizzard really needs to change how they are dealing with AFK, assuming they are dealing with it at all. These people just go AFK for the whole battle then right at the end they run out and hit something to clear the AFK. They don't get the honor but they do get the marks. There was the usual stupidity going on in there, half or better of the offense going for Galv at the start, holding SHGY, the usual. We got both our wins by killing Drek but the Horde only got about half theirs by killing Vann, the rest they got on reinforcements due to the Alliance turtling. I went back into EoS after that because I didn't want to waste any more time in AV. We didn't do too bad in there, not great but not too bad either, 12 wins and 7 losses. This is a battleground we usually dominate in though. We had quite a few 4 caps and I got to run the flag a lot. We had some good groups and then we had some really bad ones. Some people were really poorly geared too, you can tell when someone dies jumping off the rock they are pretty poorly geared lol. Anyway I broke the 45,000 lifetime kill mark and got 581 kills today alone.

Battlegrounds 8/10/08

Another really bad day in the battlegrounds for the Alliance. I fought in 11 battles on Wranngar, 3 wins and 8 losses. Surprisingly two of the wins involved holding SHGY believe it or not, I couldn't. We held SHGY and moved forward to take IBGY, the towers, FWGY, FWRH and finally Drek in one and the other we won on reinforcements. We got Galv in both of them so there was some good honor involved. I have no need for honor at the moment but I can always store it up for later use. I am just in there these days for the kills and there were a lot of them, over 380 today alone, over 350 yesterday :). The other battles were total losses, no coordination, no teamwork, a lot of AFK, although I am happy to see people are taking an interest in reporting them and a couple people asked me where I got the mod I was using to report the leeches. I was more than happy to advertise it. Hopefully things will get better during the week, we will see. The daily battleground today was WSG but there was no way I was going to do it on their holiday weekend. Hopefully tomorrow's daily battleground will be Alterac Valley.

Daily's 8/9/08

I did one of my daily's on Wranngar today, the daily fishing. It was The One That Got Away and had me heading out to Nagrand in search of the World's Largest Mudfish. I headed over to my spot at Lake Sunspring (34,43) and did some fishing. It took me 17 casts to get one but I got some other nice fish in the process. When I finally had the World's Largest Mudfish I headed back to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, to turn it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. That contained 7g30s39c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and 3 pieces of Salvaged Scrap Metal. Nothing too exciting there but there are still some good rewards to be had from this quest so I will keep plugging away at it.

Battlegrounds 8/9/08

Today's daily was Arathi Basin, I got it done on Wranngar on the second try. In the first battle I got grouped with a really bad group and it was all we could do to hold one node. In the second battle we did better and held 3 nodes the whole time and 4 nodes for part of the time. We ended up winning by around 600. I got the 11g99s, 419 honor and 3 Arathi Basin Mark of Honor for completing it. Then I went and did some AV's. That was kind of a mistake. I was in 7 battles, 2 wins and 5 losses. Stupidity was running rampant in AV today between capping and holding SHGY and going for Galv first. I have given up on people learning that when half the offense goes for Galv at the start, and the Horde are guarding the choke point by IBGY, the rest of the offense falls apart. I guess they will never learn. For some reason they are willing to give up 600+ honor for a win to kill Galv and get his 63 honor, it boggles the mind. To give you an idea of the caliber of players in there today, there was a lot of calling to take down Drek when we had 3 and 4 towers still up. That should give you an idea of how much of a clue these people had. It is weird, this is WSG weekend but from the quality of people in AV you would swear it was AV weekend. We won both of our battle by killing Drek while the Horde won most of theirs on reinforcements due to the turtle that resulted from either going for Galv first or holding SHGY. As usual we were plagued by AFK in all the AV battlegrounds. Blizzard really needs to get on the ball and do something about this problem. On the plus side I got a Gold Medallion in my mailbox today. It is a pet based on Competition I guess. I have attached a screen shot of it.

Battlegrounds 8/8/08

I did a few battlegrounds today on Wranngar. It was not a good day for the Alliance in the battlegrounds. The daily today was Arathi Basin and we won the first one I was in so that worked out well, we had a 5 cap, it was over pretty quick. After that I decided to do a WSG and we won the first one of those I was in, 3/0. That's where the good stuff ends. I also fought in 10 AV's, 4 wins and 6 losses. I was in some pretty bad groups and one of the mistakes they kept making was going for Galv at the start which of course caused our offense to wipe and get sent back to Dun Baldar. We did win one where they went for Galv first but it was a lot harder than it should have been. I keep telling them if they think Galv's 63 honor is nice they should try skipping him and winning some time. We won 3 of our 4 by killing Drek and one on reinforcements. The Horde won about half of their's by killing Vann and the other half on reinforcements. We had a couple where the Alliance took and held SHGY, I can't believe people are still doing that and no matter what you say they won't let it go. Holding SHGY keeps the Horde in front of us and stops us from moving forward but you just can't get that through their heads... I guess they think they are doing something by taking a GY. I got something in the mail today too, a Competitor's Tabard. I guess it has something to do with the Olympics, it looks kind of like the Olympic logo. I have attached a picture of me wearing it. I still like my Stormpike Battle Tabard better but I will wear this while the Olympics are going on I guess. As usual there were a lot of AFK in all the battles I was in especially Alterac Valley. I guess they think they can get away with it better in there as it is 40x40, they must not think anyone will notice but I list them using the TuringTest AFK Reporter which gives everyone the chance to report them. School should be starting back up again soon and I think that is going to make a big difference.

Battlegrounds 8/7/08

I didn't have a lot of time to play today, I only got to do 7 AV's on Wranngar, 3 wins and 4 losses. I sent the battle plan I made a macro from into chat before each battle but of course a plan only works if everyone follows it. That is the problem, most of the Alliance don't seem to be able to follow a simple plan and I don't really know if half the people know which group they are in. 2 of our losses resulted from people taking SHGY, it seems people will never learn about taking SHGY, either that or they want to lose. In at least one more they went for Galv first which usually ends up in offense falling apart and everyone ending up back at Dun Baldar to start over. In the wins, while not exactly following the plan enough people did follow it to give us a win. We had one battle where we were on Drek at the same time the Horde were on Vann and they just took him down first, mostly because our people were scattered and we didn't quite have enough in Frostwolf Keep to take him down. We are also still having a lot of trouble with AFK.

Battlegrounds 8/6/08

I fought in 5 battles today on Wranngar, 1 WSG which was the daily I never completed and 4 AV, 3 wins and one loss. In WSG the group I was in was so bad I just gave up and stopped trying to run the flag. I picked it up 4 times and made it all the way back to our flag room twice but there was no support and the thing that finally made me give up was when I was hiding on our roof with the flag, the Horde had our flag in their base and no one was going after it. In AV we did really good in 3 of them, won quick and easy but the forth one someone took SHGY and then the Alliance held onto it for the long slow turtle to loss. The Alliance will never learn about SHGY it seems, just like they will never learn about going for Galv at the start. Anyway I am about 8,000 honor away from a new belt I want to get. After the battlegrounds I helped a level 15 druid get to 16 and start their water form quests.