Battleground Leechers 6/21/09

I am so sick of all the leechers in the battlegrounds I have decided to list them. The following is a list of the people that were leeching in the battlegrounds I was in today along with the battleground they were in.


Eye of the Storm
Kryptonikk - Frostwolf - 2 battles

Alterac Valley
Deerht Jenkins - Kil'Jaeden - 2 battles
Proteja - Tichondrius - 2 battles
Xybodhi - Ner'zhul - 2 battles
Trinketpls of the Nightfall - Frostmourne - 2 battles
Priorie - Aman'Thul - 1 battle
Korad - Blackrock - 1 battle
Darylol, Champion of the Frozen Wastes - Frostmourne - 2 battles
Supchief - Tichondrius - 1 battle
Tac - Sliverhand - 1 battle
Alkemist - Tichondrius - 1 battle
Kristana - Tichondrius - 1 battle
Talker - Sliverhand - 1 battle

These people were AFK thoughout the battle until at least the last few minutes, all the AFK seem to come alive in the last couple minutes trying to clear the AFK debuff so they can get marks and honor. Blizzard should have something in place to remove them once they are AFK for a certain amount of time but, unfortunatley, they do not...... If one of these is your character or one of these characters is in your guild, you must be so proud.

Alterac Valley 6/20/09

My daily battleground today was Alterac Valley. I almost didn't take it and now I wish I hadn't. It was some piss poor PvP on the part of the Alliance. I had to ask and see if it was AV weekend, that's how bad it was.

The biggest problem in all the battles was idiots taking and holding SHGY. Taking and holding SHGY is pretty much a guaranteed loss, it keeps ALL the Horde in front of us so we can't advance. The saddest part was it was the same people in a few of the battles who took it each time. Evidently they are too stupid to learn from their mistakes and are doomed to repeat them over and over again. It took me 8 battles to get my daily done. There were also a lot of AFK in all the battles I was in, Blizzard is doing a great job taking care of that. When someone is marked AFK they should have 90 seconds to get into battle and clear it. If they don't they should be removed from the battleground and given a 3 day ban from fighting in any battleground. That would be first offense. Second offense they should be banned from playing WoW for 3 days. Third offense should be a lifetime ban from the battlegrounds and a week ban from playing WoW. The problem is Blizzard doesen't want to piss off the AFK because then they would lose their $15 a month. The hell with the rest of us I guess.....

I also fought in 2 Eye of the Storm, one win and one loss. In the win we took and held 3 towers and ran the flag. That is how EoS should be played, get at least 3 towers before you waste time on the flag. In the loss 3/4 of our team came off the rock when the shield lifted and went straight for the flag. That is how EoS should NOT be played. Flagtards cost us more battles than anything else. I think one of the main reasons they do this is the achievements, I wish they would just do away with them, they cause a lot of problems in ALL the battlegrounds. Once again I am sick of playing with idiots in the battlegrounds and will probably take a break from them and do daily's.

Northrend Daily's 6/20/09

I got my daily's out of the way as soon as I logged on today. The fishing was Monsterbelly Appetite and the cooking was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf.

As usual these didn't take me too long. I didn't get anything worth mentioning for rewards from either.

Battlegrounds 6/19/09

My daily battleground today was Strand of the Ancients again today, way to give some variety Blizzard...

I did it on Wranngar and we won the second one I was in. The first one was close but we lost in the end. The second one wasn't even remotely close and we won it easily. I turned that in and collected my 13g23s and 1241 bonus honor. I should have enough honor to get another piece in a day or two.

After that I did some Eye of the Storm. It is amazing how some people still don't know how to play EoS, they claim to know how to play it and give a lot of 'advice' but they have no clue. Today there was someone spouting off about the importance of the flag. The flag is not important, the towers are. With 3 towers you don't need to run the flag at all to win. Same thing with 4 towers. With 2 towers you have to run, or get and hold, the flag. Not surprisingly that battle had a lot of flagtards in it, it was a loss because we only held 2 towers at best and lost them a few times because everyone was in the middle fighting for the flag. The Flag to EoS is what Galv is to AV, put there to distract the stupid. Anyway that was the only bad group I was in, I ended up with 6 wins and one loss. The Alliance was playing like it used to in EoS :).

I fought in 2 AV's too, both losses. The first loss was really close and I though we had it, we had Drek down to 17% when the Horde either killed Vann or our resources ran out, I wasn't paying attention. In the second battle we held SHGY which is pretty much a guaranteed loss... People just don't get it, if you hold SHGY it keep all the Horde in front of you and you lose 9 times out of 10. The only way you can win is if you have a really good group. I haven't seen any really good groups in AV in awhile. We had 8 AFK in the second battle.

Northrend Daily's 6/19/09

I did a bunch of daily's today. The fishing I got from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran was The Ghostfish and the cooking I picked up from Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome was Mustard Dogs! again.

As usual I did the cooking first, that had me running all over Dalaran looking for Wild Mustard. It didn't take me long to get the 4 I needed on each today, I was actually kind of surprised at how quickly it went. I combined that with some Rhino Dogs to make a Mustard Dog Basket!. Once I had that I delivered it to Archmage Pentarus (68,41) at Krasus' Landing in exchange for 9g93s, 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards and a Small Spice Bag.

Gomorra's Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices in it. Not a great haul for Gom but I'll take it.

Wranngar's Small Spice Bag had 4 Northern Spices in it along with another Dalaran Cooking Award making 3 for him, not a bad day for Wrann.

After that I headed over to River's Heart in Sholazar Basin to catch a Phantom Ghostfish. It took me a few minutes on both to get one today, it usually goes a lot quicker than it did today. Once I caught one I ate it right away. They are on a timer that starts clocking as soon as you loot it, you have 60 seconds before it disappears. Eating it reveals the mystery to you and completes the quest. I headed back to Marcia and told her I figured out the mystery so she gave me a Bag of Fishing Treasures for my trouble.

Wrann's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 9g7s11c, 3 Elixirs of Water Walking, an Unusual Compass and 2 Deviate Fish. I was hoping for better. I can always hope :).

Gom's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 8g19s48c, a Glow Worm, 2 Solid Gold Coins, which I sold to a vendor for a gold each, and 3 Deviate Fish. There used to be a time when Deviate Fish were worth something but those days are over.

I did all my daily's for The Sons of Hodir on Gom but not on Wrann, I just didn't feel like doing them on him. He was busy in the battlegrounds anyway. The daily's I do for The Sons of Hodir are Blowing Hodir's Horn, Hot and Cold, Polishing the Helm, Spy Hunter and Feeding Arngrim. These take me about a half hour and get me around 80+ gold with drops. My gold supply hasn't been piling up too fast since I stopped doing these.

Daily Battleground 6/18/09

My daily battleground today was Strand of the Ancients again, we won the first one I was in. It was the quickest easiest SoA I have ever been in. We just got off the boat, broke through the gates and got to the relic. It took about 90 seconds. I guess whatever time we do it in is the time the Horde have to do it in. They only got through one gate before it was over.

I fought in one Wintergrasp, a win. We were offense and the Horde were defending Wintergrasp. We won that one in about 11 minutes. I think I got 26 kills out of that one. I am starting to get the hang of WG now. It is a little different as you can either be defending or attacking depending on who is in possession of WG when you go in. I am building up my marks for a headpiece I want to get.

I fought in one Arathi Basin, a loss. No surprise there, the Alliance has really been sucking in AB lately. We lost to a 5 cap. I don't know if people are too stupid to work together or if they are just trying for the achievements but whatever the problem is it's not working. It was the same old crap, people riding up to nodes, starting them capping, then riding out. We used to do pretty well in AB now I think we are lucky to win one in ten.

We were doing ok today in Eye of the Storm, we had 3 wins and 2 losses. Not great but ok. We had a 4 cap in one of our wins, it was The Perfect Storm. I already had it but a bunch of other people got the achievement. You get The Perfect Storm when you win 2000/0, meaning the horde didn't cap anything. There were a few AFK and a couple bots in the battles I was in. This is because season 6 came out and they are trying to bot/AFK themselves into season 5 gear. People who bot or AFK make me sick, they are losers who are taking a spot from someone who could be fighting.

Daily's 6/18/09

I got all my daily's done on both toons today. The cooking was Mustard Dogs! and the fishing was Jewel Of The Sewers.

These didn't take me too long today and I didn't have any problems doing them on Wranngar today.

I didn't get anything worth mentioning as rewards from either today. I did get a Battered Jungle Hat on Wrann. I asked in trade if anyone wanted it for free and got a lot of replies, I will have to be more careful next time lol. Here's a screen shot of my bank alt wearing one.

Assorted Battlegrounds 6/17/09

Today was some of the worst PvP play I have seen in a long time by the Alliance. We couldn't win anything, it was sad. I fought in 4 Strand of the Ancients, 1 wins, 2 losses and one draw. It was my daily today. I always wondered what happened if no one was able to get at the relic, now I know, it is a draw.

I fought in 2 Eye of the Storm, both losses. We usually dominate EoS, that's what made it that much sadder. You could tell in 2 battles that the quality of players was such that we were not going to win in there soon. No one was defending anything, everyone was going for the flag, everyone that wasn't AFK that is. Blizzard has been working on the AFK problem in the battlegrounds for a couple years now, hopefully they will have a soultion soon.....

Surprisingly enough we won the 2 Arathi Basin battles I was in. They were both close but we pulled it off. For the most part people were guarding nodes and then going in a group, not one or two, to try for another node. I guess all the compentent players were fighting in AB today. I usually head to the Gold Mine and help cap then defend that when I am in AB. If we lose that then I usually go on offense and help capture another node. There was only one AFK in one of the battles I was in and none in the other.

I fought in one Wintergrasp which we won. That actually went pretty well. We won it in just a little over 11 minutes, we were defending. I got a couple achievements in there today, I have not done a lot of fighting in there yet. I couldn't get the quests today for some reason so I didn't get all the honor I had been getting.

Lastly I fought in one Alterac Valley. We lost that one too. The main reason behind that loss was people decided to hold SHGY. Holding SHGY keeps all the Horde in front of us the whole time, making it impossible to advance. You try to tell people this and they either can't read or don't care. They certainly don't learn from their mistakes because the same people will be in there the next battle fighting to hold SHGY. We lose a lot of AV's when the Alliance holds SHGY. Holding SHGY is pretty much a guaranteed loss.

On the plus side I broke 60,000 lifetime kills on Wrann today. I have less than 40,000 to go to hit 100,000 and get my 'of the Alliance' title.

Daily's 6/17/09

I got my daily's done today on both, it was a struggle. I did them no problem on Gomorra but I had a hell of a time doing them on Wranngar. The daily fishing was Jewel Of The Sewers again and the cooking was Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. I got the fishing from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran and the daily cooking from Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome.

I did both the daily's on Gom first, I had no problem. I got my 4 Infused Mushrooms pretty quick and my piece of Corroded Jewelry on the third cast. When I went to do these same ones on Wrann I couldn't target the Infused Mushrooms and I didn't have my piece of Corroded Jewelry after 20 casts. I usually have to cast no more than 10 times to get it.

I abandoned the quests, and got them again, no change. I abandoned them and logged out, logged back in and got them again, nothing. I kind of knew what I had to do but I didn't want to. Finally I did it, I deleted my \WTF folder. That resets everything. Once I did that I was able to do the quests but lost all my add-ons and personal settings. I turned a couple of the add-ons back on but left the rest off.

I didn't get anything worth mentioning from either of these quests as far as rewards go. It was pretty much the same old stuff.

Battlegrounds 6/16/09

I did a bunch of battlegrounds today on Wranngar. My daily battleground was Arathi Basin again today :(. I guess it could be worse, it could have been Warsong Gulch, I hate WSG.

It took me 5 battles to get a win in AB and complete my daily today. The Alliance were playing terrible. We lost to a couple 5 caps, and the one we won was really close. I don't know what the problem is but I haven't seen it this bad in a long time. The Alliance used to do pretty good in AB, but lately it has been like holiday weekend in AB every day. The main problem is people not guarding anything. There is no defense, it's all offense. People will ride up to a node, start it capping and then ride away before it even finishes capping. I blame that on the achievements, everyone is trying to get the achievements done, capping as many nodes in one battle as they can... I don't see it getting any better either.

I also fought in 11 Eye of the Storm battles, 8 wins and 3 losses. We were doing a little better in there but not great. We usually dominate in EoS. Once again people are trying to get the flag capping achievements done which is causing everyone to go flagtard. We did have a few 4 caps but those were later. We lost the first 3 I was in and then, later on, won the last 8 I was in. Remember what I said about the quality of people changing at certain times of the day? That's what happened. You could see by their actions that it was a better group of people later on in the day. There were a lot of AFK in EoS, there were a lot of AFK in all the battlegrounds I was in. People that come into a battleground then either stay right at the starting point or bot around make me sick. I use TuringTest AFK Reporter and I use that to report them to the raid group every few minutes until they are marked AFK.

I fought in 3 Wintergrasp battles, 2 losses and one win. I had all the quests done for today except the win in WG. We finally got that on the third battle. I don't really know enough about WG yet to know what the problem is/was, it seems like everyone is doing something, they are fighting anyway. The TuringTest AFK Reporter dosen't work in there, it is not an instance like all the other battlegrounds so I don't think it knows it's in a battleground. I get good honor in WG by doing the quests every day and will keep up with that.

I fought in 2 battles on Gomorra today too. I fought in one EoS, a win, and one AB, a loss. I was tring for the daily in AB, (yeah I know, lost cause) but I was also doing the achievement Dinner Impossible. I still have AV, SoA and WSG to go. I will probably go into WSG, serve it up, then leave. I will take the deserter debuff instead of staying in there for the whole battle. I hate WSG. It has been a long time since I was in a battleground on Gom, I usually do battlegrounds on Wrann. Gom did pretty good though and it felt good to be back in there on him. I want to get Gom to 25,000 lifetime kills to get that achievement though. He only has a couple hundred to go.

All in all I got a lot of kills and a lot of honor today, 297 kills and 24,672 honor. You get a lot of honor doing the quests in WG, that's why I will stay on top of it.

More Daily's 6/16/09

I got my daily's out of the way early today. I was able to do them on both toons today, I am not sure what the problem with Wranngar was yesterday but both he and Gomorra were able to do them today. I grabbed the daily fishing, from Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran, which was Jewel Of The Sewers today, and the daily cooking, from Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome, which was Cheese for Glowergold again.

I did the cooking first. It really didn't take me long to get the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses or the Aged Dalaran Limburger today. I combined them on the platter I was given when I accepted this daily quest and delivered them to Ranid Glowergold (36,28) at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange in exchange for 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag.

Gom's Small Spice Bag had 3 Northern Spices in it today, not the best haul but not bad, I have had worse.

Wrann's Small Spice Bag had 6 Northern Spices in it, a great haul for Wrann today.

I did the daily fishing after that which had me heading down into the sewers to fish for a piece of Corroded Jewelry. I headed over to the Black Market to fsh for that, that is where I always fish for it and I always get my Corroded Jewelry in less than 10 casts, today was no exception. I turned the Corroded Jewelry in to Marcia for a Bag of Fishing Treasures.

Gom's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 7g21s91c, 2 Northsea Pearls, 2 Crafted Star, 2 Deviate Fish and a Runic Mana Potion. A whole lot of stuff but not really worth anything. The most valuable items were the Northsea Pearls and Mana Potion.

Wrann's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 9g62s16c, 3 Northsea Pearls, 2 Crafted Star, 2 Deviate Fish and a Velociraptor Skull. Not much there either.

The daily fishing still has a lot of great rewards I haven't gotten yet so I will keep plugging away at it.

Battlegrounds 6/15/09

I fought in all the battlegrounds on Wranngar today. The Alliance wasn't doing well for the most part. My daily battleground today was Arathi Basin, we won the second one I was in.

In the first AB battle I was in no one was defending anything which caused us to lose of course. People would run into a base, start it capping, then ride out.... We went around and around like that until we ended up losing by around 800 points. In the second battle we did better. People were defending nodes, not spreading out too much although we did lose a node here and there. It was a really close battle. We were ahead the whole time but not by much, we ended up winning by 40 points. After that I did two with Arkantose because he wanted to do the daily. We won one and lost one. I ended up with 2 wins and 2 losses for the day.

I fought in some Eye of the Storm after that, we were doing really bad in there. This is a battleground we usually dominate, but not so much lately. There was a lot of stupidity, no defending nodes, not even getting MT or DR, leaving nodes before they cap, going for the flag when we didn't even have a tower to bring it to, the list goes on and on. We did have 2 good battles out of the 4 I was in, we had 2 wins and 2 losses. Arkantose fought in 3 of those with me as well. In one of our wins we had a 4 cap going and had the Horde trapped on their rock, in the other we had a 3 cap although I was the only one guarding BET, there was one person guarding MT and no one at DR... Everyone was either in the middle or at FRR. Keeping pressure on the Hordes only node is good, it keeps them busy and keeps them off the flag and our nodes but not when you are leaving nodes empty. At least with one person at a node they can call incoming.

I fought in one Warsong Gulch tonight. I hate WSG. I really hate it. Salintu joined us for that one. I only went in because Arkantose wanted some Warsong Gulch Marks of Honor. We ended up getting owned as we usually do in WSG because the Alliance doesn't seem to know how to play it. There was no teamwork, people fighting in the middle while the Horde had our flag, it was sad to watch. The battleground leader pitched a fit and went AFK, that is the kind of teamwork we had going on. I don't even do this one when it is the daily.

All 3 of us fought in one Strand of the Ancients tonight. We lost that one too, I told you the Alliance was having a bad night. We didn't lose by much but lose we did. I think we were just outclassed because everyone seemed to be doing their part with the exception of the AFK, of which there were quite a few. There were quite a few in all the battlegrounds tonight.

Unbelievably we won the 3 Alterac Valley's the 3 of us fought in tonight. We won 2 on reinforcements and one by killing Drek with 2 towers up. I tanked that one. I don't have much in the way of tanking gear, all my gear is PvP, but I can hang onto whatever I set my sights on, I just depend on some good healers to keep me alive. We had some good ones tonight but with Drek, 2 Warmasters, 2 Elite Frostwolves and 3 or 4 Horde on me I ended up dying right before Drek went down. He did go down though and we won so it all worked out in the end. The battle ended before I rezz'd, that's how close he was to dying when I died. That was the only way we were going to win that one, we were pretty far behind on reinforcements.

And last but not least I fought in 2 Wintergrasp battles, one win and one loss. It is much better to be on offense in WG than defense in my opinion. Of course if you are on offense then it means you didn't have WG for the last 2 1/2 hours and that's no good either. In the ones I have fought in though we have had more wins on offense than defense. The win I fought in by myself, without Arkantose and Salintu but they were there for the second one, the loss. We didn't have any problem getting the fortress from the Horde when we were on offense and they got it back when they were on offense. I thought we were doing pretty good. They were inside the fortress but we were killing them left and right and I thought we were doing ok, but some got through to the gate and it was all over.

All in all I ended up getting 417 kills and 26,212 honor, not a bad day in the battlegrounds considering how bad the Alliance was sucking. That is almost like the old days when you could really rack up some honor and kills. I got 123 kills in one AV battle :).

Daily's 6/15/09

I did both my daily's on Gomorra today but could only do one on Wranngar. I got the daily cooking quest from Katherine Lee (41,65), the Grand Master Cooking Trainer in the kitchen of A Hero's Welcome but I couldn't target any of the items on Wrann. I could see them, and see other people come over and take them, but I couldn't target them. I abandoned it and got it again, I logged out and back on and got it again, nothing worked. Finally I gave up on Wrann. It was Cheese for Glowergold anyway, which I hate, but I did do it on Gom.

It took quite awhile to get the 6 Half Full Dalaran Wine Glasses I needed which is why I hate this one. I got the cheese from One More Glass pretty fast. I could see the cheese on Wrann when I tried to do it on him, but I couldn't target it. Someone else just came over and took it. Once I had the wine and cheese on Gom I combined them on the platter to make a wine and cheese platter which I delivered to Ranid Glowergold (36,28 at the Leatherworkers in the Magus Commerce Exchange. He gave me 9g93s, a Dalaran Cooking Award and a Small Spice Bag.

My Small Spice Bag had 4 Northern Spices in it, not a bad haul.

I did the daily fishing after that. Marcia Chase (53,65), by the fountain in Dalaran had Dangerously Delicious again so I was off to Wintergrasp to catch 10 Terrorfish.

It didn't take me too long to get the 10 Terrorfish I needed on both today. I am not using the +100 lures anymore unless I really, really need them. I don't have that many left. I looked in the auction house and they are going for 2g50s EACH! I am not paying that for them so I am saving what I have until I really need them. I have a bunch of Glow Worms on each but I am saving them for farming. Once I had the 10 Terrorfish I needed I headed back to Dalaran to hand them in to Marcia for a Bag of Fishing Treasures.

Gom's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 6g85s76c, a Glow Worm and a Tower Key which I sold to a vendor for 16g66s66c. Nothing great for Gom today.

Wrann's Bag of Fishing Treasures had 9g47s62c, 3 Elixirs of Water Walking, an Unusual Compass and 2 Deviate Fish. Not a great haul for Wrann today. Wrann did get a Siren's Tear out of a Giant Darkwater Clam, when he was fishing, they go for about 50 gold on the auction house so that made up for it a little for both.