Battlegrounds 10/11/08

I only fought in a few battlegrounds on Wranngar tonight. The daily was Arathi Basin and we won the first one I was in. It was pretty close until around 1,000 points then we took 3 and held them for the win. The Horde was really poorly geared and we should have been able to do a 5 cap but our team wasn't all that good. Three of us held off an attack of 6 horde at the Gold Mine, 2 of them were healers, to give you an idea how poorly they were geared. After that I went into EoS for 3 more battles, 2 wins and 1 loss. The first 2 groups I was in we had a 3 cap and a 4 cap. The 3rd battle I was in we didn't have anywhere near as good a group and ended up losing by around 200. I got my daily done though and got my 11g99s for that. We did have a few AFK in the EoS battles I was in, I guess Blizzard still isn't up to the challenge of taking care of that problem. As a matter of fact Blizzard taking care of the AFK problem has been an epic failure.

Battlegrounds 10/9/08

I did the daily battleground on Wranngar today, that was the only one I fought in. It was AB and it took me 2 battles to get it done. In the first battle people were just everywhere, there was no teamwork and people were attacking objectives in ones and twos while leaving other objectives we held virtually unguarded. In the second battle I was in I got into a Blackrock pre-made, the only ones not from Balckrock were me and another guy. The Blackrock group was good and we had a 5 cap going pretty quick. From there it was just a simple matter of holding them for the win. I helped capture and then defended the Gold Mine.

Battlegrounds 10/6 - 10/08

I fought in 24 battles on Wranngar in the last 3 days. During that time I had AB for my daily once and AV for my daily twice. There is really not a whole lot to say, we are still doing bad in all battlegrounds especially EoS. I was in EoS yesterday and lost all 3 battles I was in, only 1 of them was even close. My daily today was AV and we won the first one I was in. As a matter of fact we are doing better in AV than we are in EoS if you can believe that. It took me 4 battles to get my AB daily done on the 6th. It took me 5 battles to get my daily in AV done yesterday too. Hopefully things will get better for us in the battlegrounds. I joined a pre-made EoS the other day but that worked out like most pre-mades do, we waited around for about 45 minutes then people started dropping out and we never did get to do a battle, that is why I usually don't join.

Battlegrounds 10/5/08

Not a great day for the Alliance in the battlegrounds again today. I did get yesterdays daily done along with today's daily though. I fought in 20 total battles on Wranngar. Yesterday's daily was WSG, I tried one and it was so bad I dropped the quest. I picked it up again this morning before daily's rolled over and got it done on my first, and only, WSG battle. When the daily's rolled over I got today's which was AB. It took me 3 battles to get that one done but I got it done. After that I did a bunch of Eye of the Storm battles with a few AV's mixed in. We had 7 wins and 6 losses out of the 13 battles I fought in EoS. Once again it was going well then you could see when the quality of the players change. We went from 3 and 4 caps with running the flag to barely able to hang onto one tower while half the team, or more, was in the middle trying for flag. The flag means nothing when you only have one tower. Instead of hanging around in the middle trying to get the flag the time would be much better spent getting another tower. I think out of the last 8 battles I was in 6 of them were losses. The Alliance is still doing bad in AV with people taking SHGY and causing the battle plus all the AFK. There was also a lot of inexperience in there. People were calling out to kill Drek while we still had 3 towers up. The groups I was in didn't stand a chance of taking Drek down with 2 towers up let alone 3. We had one battle where we rushed Frostwolf and no one bothered with TP or IBT. By the time we got them it was too late. We had 1 win and 2 losses in AV.

Battlegrounds 10/4/08

The Alliance was having another bad day in the battlegrounds today. The only one we were really winning in today was EoS. I fought in 10 EoS on Wranngar for 7 wins and 3 losses. We had some good groups, some bad groups and some close battles. There was a lot of AFK again in this battleground which is unusual, I am not sure what is up with that. Warsong Gulch was the daily, I tried one of those, keeping in mind it is their holiday weekend, and then dropped it. People seemed to be there to farm kills which is stupid, you don't farm kills in WSG, you farm kills in AV. But the fact remains people were fighting right outside our base and not making it any farther. I tried to run the flag twice but had no flag support either time so I just gave up. I was in 2 battles in AB, one win and one loss. Both of those battles were really close and we either won or lost with less that 100 points difference between us. I also fought in 3 AV's, all losses. In 2 of the battles we took and held SHGY which is pretty much a guaranteed loss. In the third battle we were actually on Drek but the Horde got Vann first.

Battlegrounds 10/3/08

Another bad day for the Alliance in the battlegrounds. I fought in 14 battles on Wranngar, 7 wins and 7 losses. We were doing bad in all the battlegrounds except AB. I was in 2 battles in AB and we won both of them, one was a 5 cap. AB was the daily so I was able to get that done. I was in 8 battles in EoS, 4 wins and 4 losses. I am not sure what the Alliances' problem is lately but we usually dominate EoS. There has also been a lot of AFK in EoS which you don't usually see. I fought in 4 AV's, 1 win and 3 losses. That was just a lot of the stupidity I have come to expect from the Alliance in AV. We would have won 2 more of the AV battles but someone had to go and take SHGY causing all the Horde to rez right where we were trying to cap towers/objectives and they just overran us. That also happened in the battle we won but we were able to hang on and win by reinforcements. Even then it was close. Of course AV was plagued with AFK, up to 10 per battle, I guess Blizzard is just not up to the challenge of correcting the AFK problem as they have failed so far.

Battlegrounds 10/2/08

The Alliance was having a pretty bad night in the battlegrounds tonight. I fought in a total of 7 battles tonight on Wranngar, 5 in EoS which was the daily, 2 wins and 3 losses and 2 AV's, 1 win, 1 loss. I don't know why the Alliance is having such a hard time in EoS lately, we used to do really well in there. In our 3 losses we were lucky to hold 1 tower and actually rezz'd on the rock one time because we even lost that. It was sad. In the 2 we won we had a 3 cap the whole time and were running the flag. The Horde never got over 800 in those 2. There were just really bad groups of people who either didn't know how to play EoS or didn't want to play. There were quite a few AFK too, I wonder if it is EoS weekend, that would explain a lot. In AV we had one good group and one bad group. In the one we won we had plenty of time left to get Galv and TP for the extra honor, which I pointed out, but everyone was in a hurry and downed Drek with Galv still alive and TP still up so they lost honor and bonus honor. I don't care anymore, I am just in it for the kills. The loss was a bad group and turned into a turtle for the most part, everyone was hanging around in DB, most of them AFK. The Horde killed Vann in that one. I got the daily done today on the first battle, it was EoS. I got the 11g99s this daily pays and that was about it lol.

Battlegrounds 9/30 &10/1

I only did a few battlegrounds on Wranngar yesterday. I ended up doing 3 AV's, 2 wins and one loss. The Alliance were doing pretty good and even the loss was close. Unfortunately no such luck tonight. I fought in 7 AV's, 2 wins and 5 losses. The ones we won we had a good group of people who knew what they were doing. The ones that we lost were pretty bad, we had bad groups and a lot of AFK in all of them except one which was close. In the first win we rushed Galv, which I usually don't approve of, then went as a group and got a good grip on IBT. From there we took IBGY then moved on to TP. IBGY used to be a really important GY and still is in my opinion. A lot of groups want to bypass it and go right to FWGY and that works too so it is a hard call. I always like to see a group that goes for IBGY after IBT starts capping. Of course this is based on having a good group. If you have a bad group, and it is usually obvious in the first few minutes, then your best bet is to try and get Galv for his 63 honor. It is better than no honor. But I digress, we got IBGY and TP then moved up to FWGY while they were capping. We had a bit of a fight at FWGY, the Horde were defending it pretty well but we got it capping and moved into the Keep. We got the relief hut and towers without much trouble, the horde couldn't get into DB because they had too many on defense and I think they were giving up at that point. Once everything capped we took Drek down for the win. In the second battle we won, we rushed FWGY and got that started then moved into Frostwolf Keep and cleaned that out. That took a little while as there were a lot of Horde on defense. Eventually we had both towers and FWRH capping as well as all the Horde cleaned out and things were looking good. Others had come behind and got IBT and TP capping then took Galv. Once the East and West towers capped we moved in and took out Drek for the win. As far as the losses go they were pretty much turtles, people died in the first rush and didn't leave DB again. I also fought in 5 Eye of the Storm battles tonight. We had 3 wins and 2 losses so it would seem we were doing a little better in there but we weren't, we usually own EoS. We did have one battle where the 2 teams were pretty evenly matched. That one went on for 35 minutes which is a really long battle for EoS. We both crept from 1 to around 1800 points before we took and held the flag, ran it up to 1910 then capped for the win. It was a long intense battle, constant action. In one other one we had a 4 cap going for almost a minute. That battle was a win and not even close, they just happened to lose the one tower they were holding for a minute.

Battlegrounds 9/29/08

Looks like I am back in battleground mode, it is all I have been doing the last couple days and I see no end in sight. This will slow down my leveling on Brieanna but once in a while you feel like doing some battlegrounds. I fought in 9 AV's on Wranngar tonight, 6 wins and 3 losses, the Alliance was doing good for a change. We won two battles by reinforcements and the rest by killing Drek. We had some pretty good battles and some good groups. There was not too much (In Team) fighting going on except one battle I got in late. We ended up losing that one, I think it makes a difference on overall morale when there is a lot of fighting and bickering going on. I am happy to say there was not a single battle I was in where anyone took and held SHGY so that is a step in the right direction. For the most part we rushed FW Keep in the battles we won. A few of them we hit IBT and IBGY at the same time and got them both capping, then with the Horde unable to rez at IBGY we were able to get TP capping. We had one battle, the next to last one I was in, where EVERYONE rushed FW Keep and we didn't have IBT or TP. We had some good defense going in that one though and they kept the Horde out of Dun Baldar. Eventually we went back and capped IBT and TP then got Galv. With 25 reinforcements remaining on the Horde's board we took down Drek for maximum honor which I, unfortunately, don't get anymore. We had one battle with someone in it that was insisting that we take out Drek with 3 towers up. They don't know the importance of the towers. Each tower represents an Elite Warmaster in with Drek and +25% health to Drek in addition to the 2 Elite Frost Wolves with him. So with 3 towers up Drek was at 175% health and he had 3 Warmasters and 2 Frost Wolves with him. It wasn't going to happen. For the most part we had really good groups and really good teamwork going on today and it showed in the wins.

Brieanna 9/28/08

I played Brieanna for a little while today, I got her to level 36. I went to Ironforge and got training for me and my pet. I still have 7 more points until I have 300 cooking skill, then I can see how high I can get my cooking. I need to work on my fishing some more too, I think it is 151 now. I think my skinning was at 269 when I logged off today so that is coming along well. I dropped mining (I had forgotten how much I hated mining) and took up herbalism so I need to level that, it is at 1 now :(. I was a little bored leveling today so I played Wranngar most of the time.

Wranngar - 50,000 Lifetime Kills 9/28/08

I passed 50,000 lifetime kills on Wranngar. I was in Alterac Valley, of course, when I hit this milestone. I fought in 16 AV's tonight, 8 wins and 8 losses. Some of the battles were pretty good and some were not so good. We had a few turtles, a couple directly related to holding SHGY which is never a good idea. We won a couple battles on reinforcements which is unusual for the Alliance, usually the Horde win on reinforcements. I didn't care either way, I have 100 marks from each battleground which is the maximum you can carry (I got the last 4 I needed from WSG this morning) and I have 75,000 honor which is the most honor you can carry, so I am in it for the kills now. I finished the daily battleground I had this morning on my second battle. When the daily's rolled over and I got today's daily it was AV again :). All in all I did 16 AV's and 3 WSG, 1 win and 2 losses. Now I am setting my sights on 75,000 lifetime kills.

Battlegrounds 9/27/08

Today's daily battleground was Arathi Basin but I still had the one for AV from a few days ago so I decided to do that one instead. I was on Wranngar. I fought in 4 battles, all losses, with some of the worst players I have played with in awhile. There is really not much to say about what happened except we were plagued with AFK and the mentality of the majority of players was around the 7 year old level I think. In the best (closest) battle we had we managed to make it to FWGY. In the other 3 battles we never got past IBT. People were turtling in DB in all 4 battles, anywhere from 25-35 people in DB, most AFK. I am going to try to get this done again in the morning and see if there is a better quality of players on at that time.

Instances 9/27/08

I did some instances tonight on Brieanna, Wranngar and Gomorra. The first one I did was on Brieanna and it was SM Armory. I went in with a group of 4 other people and we didn't really have any problems at all. I didn't have the quests for there yet but the XP was good. After that I had to AFK for awhile and when I got back 2 of the people I had been grouped with were still trying to run the SM Library but everyone had left group except them. I logged over to Wranngar and ran them through there. After I finished that up I saw someone in LFG looking for help with the Epic Warlock mount quest, the Dreadsteed, in Dire Maul. I logged over to Gomorra and gave them a hand with that. We had a pretty good group going there too even though there were only 4 of us to start out. We picked up a 5th for the end where we fight all the demons and that is where you really need a full group. We were able to complete that and they got their Dreadsteed. All in all not a bad night.