Brieanna - 8/27/08

I did some more questing on Brieanna today and got her to 3/4 the way though level 16. I took some time out to do 2 runs through Deadmines on Wranngar for people that needed some help and also helped someone out in Redridge. Today Brieanna learned how to shoot and use a 2 handed sword. Most of my questing was in Westfall with a run to Redridge for a quest and into Stormwind for training when I hit 16. I also went to IronForge to learn how to use guns. Hopefully I will have her to level 18 or higher tomorrow.

Daily Fishing 8/27/08

The daily fishing quest had Wranngar heading over to the waterfall by Tuurem in Terokkar Forest. The quest was Bait Bandits and I was after the elusive Blackfin Darter. It wasn't that elusive today, I got one on my 4th cast. I headed back with that to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest and handed it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. I got 7g37s70c, 3 Elixirs of Water Walking and a Razor Sharp Fillet Knife. Nothing exciting today but at least I didn't get another Rusted Lock, that was getting old... I wil keep plugging away at this one because I know some day I will hit it big and get The 2 Ring which I can sell for around 2800g on the AH, plus there are still some nice rewards to be had from this daily.

Brieanna 8/26/08

I worked on my Hunter Brieanna a little today because I couldn't stand thinking about going into the battlegrounds the Alliance has been doing so bad. I made her awhile ago but haven't played it in quite awhile. When I logged in she was at level 10 and by the time I logged off I got her up to level 13. There was a lot of running around involved in the quests I was doing and that took up a lot of time. I originally had her professions as Mining and Engineering but I dropped Engineering today and took up Skinning, she is just going to be a money maker. I got a new pet today to replace the one I had, and it leveled up nice, it is already the same level as me. It is going to take some getting used to playing her, I have never tried a hunter before and it is a little different. I made the run from Darnassus to Ironforge then took the Deeprun Tram to Stormwind tonight and got all the flight paths on the way. Now I can go back and forth easier. I made her some new gear on Wranngar before I logged off and mailed it to her so I will equip her with that tomorrow. Now that the riding level is 30 instead of 40 for the first mount (60%) I should have her mounted pretty soon too. I need to work on my other skills too, cooking is only at 34, first aid is at 210 and fishing is at 24. I did take the time in Darkshore to do the quest The Family and the Fishing Pole and got her the Blump Family Fishing Pole, every little bit helps. It was kind of fun to be questing again and I will be back at it tomorrow. I still need to name my new cat so if anyone has any suggestions let me know.

Daily Fishing 8/26/08

I did the daily fishing on Wranngar. It was Felblood Fillet again and had me heading back over to the Pools of Aggonar (39,37) in Hellfire Peninsula to catch a Monstrous Felblood Snapper. It took me 16 casts today to get one which was better than yesterday. After I had it I headed back to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest and turned it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. Inside there I found 7g15s97c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking and, believe it or not, a Rusted Lock for the 4th day in a row. That was the only daily I did today and as you can see there wasn't anything exciting in my reward, better luck tomorrow I hope.

Daily Fishing 8/25/08

The daily fishing quest today, Felblood Fillet, had Wranngar heading out to Hellfire Peninsula to the Pools of Aggonar (39,37) to catch a Monstrous Felblood Snapper. It took me 23 casts but I finally got one. I took it back and handed it in to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. When I opened that I got 7g41s71c, 6 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Rusted Lock. I don't know what the deal is with the Rusted Locks but I have gotten one in the last 3 bags I got. As you can see there was nothing great today, maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow.

Battlegrounds 8/25/08

Today's battleground was Arathi Basin, I did it on Wranngar. It took me 5 battles to get it done, I had 4 bad groups but the first one was the worst. Me and one other person went to the gold mine while the rest went to the farm, they bypassed the lumber mill and even bypassed the stables, yeah, we didn't even get the stables. The only node we held during that battle was the gold mine after awhile. I have never seen a more dysfunctional group in all the battlegrounds I have fought in. These had to have been the stupidest people I have ever had the misfortune to group with. It was a complete wipe... Nap time was certainly over and all the kiddies were in full swing. There was one loser in that one, Tanukibushi, who thought he was something but his crap blue gear and 7,000 lifetime kills said otherwise. It didn't stop him from shooting his mouth off though. If I was so poorly geared I would keep my mouth shut and hope no one noticed me but he obviously wasn't that smart. The next 3 battles weren't that much better but the 3rd one was close. Finally in the 5th battle we had a decent group and had a 3-4 cap going on most the time. I am not really sure what the problem is, school is back in but I must be playing when all the kids get out or something because the quality of player has really gone downhill. The battlegrounds are getting so bad now, all of them, that I think I am going to take a break for awhile.

Battlegrounds 8/23/08

Today's daily battleground was Warsong Gulch. I did it on Wranngar and it took me 4 battles before I got it done. I had 3 crap groups in a row before I finally got one that knew what they were doing and were decently geared. In the first 3 groups it seemed like they were there farming kills which is stupid, you go into AV to farm kills, not WSG, but they were all in the middle and when the Horde had our flag in their base I was the only one that went after it. There was also no defense on our side either. Finally in the 4th group we had good defense and good offense. On the one occasion where the Horde actually got our flag into their base we got it back right away. I did one more after that, another loss. I only need 9 more marks from there to get maxed out at 100 and I can't wait, then I can put that place behind me for awhile. I only need 10 more marks from AB before I am maxed out there too, that will be a relief. After that I did one AV, it was a loss and all I could stand. Stupidity was running rampant. The Alliance took SHGY at the start and held it almost to the end. Of course that caused a turtle and loss as it always does. There is no getting through to people I guess and this seems to be an act of stupidity that is there to stay as it is happening almost constantly lately. Maybe I will start another character instead of wasting my time in battlegrounds until people smarten up and start leaving SHGY alone. As usual the Alliance was plagued with AFK too.

Daily Fishing 8/23/08

I did the daily fishing on Wranngar today, it was Shrimpin' Ain't Easy. Turns out it was pretty easy today. This had me heading over to my spot at Umbrafen Lake (78,74) in Zangarmarsh. It took me 13 casts to get enough Bloated Barbed Gill Trout to give me enough Giant Freshwater Shrimp. Once I had the 10 I needed I headed back over to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest and turned them in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. When I opened that up I got 7g10s45c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Rusted Lock. What's up with the Rusted Locks lately? Anyway you can see there was nothing exciting today but there are still a lot of good rewards to be had so I will keep plugging away at it.

Daily Fishing 8/22/08

Today's daily fishing was Crocolisks in the City, I did it on Wranngar. I grabbed the quest then headed to my spot by in the canals in Stormwind. It didn't take too long today, I got one on my 7th cast but my hearthstone was used up so I did some battlegrounds out of Stormwind until it was cooled off. Once my heathstone was cool I headed back to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, and turned my Baby Crocolisk in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. That contained 6g75s62c, 6 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Rusted Lock, certainly nothing exciting today.

Battlegrounds 8/22/08

Today's daily battleground was Warsong Gulch, which I did on Wranngar. I got lucky and hit a good group in my first battle, we won that one and got my daily done. I ended up fighting in 7 battles in WSG altogether, 4 wins and 3 losses. I had some good groups and some bad groups. The worst one was the one that took 35 minutes to complete and we lost 2/3 at the end. There is just not enough honor involved to make a battle that long worthwhile. Anyway I got the 11g99s this daily pays plus the 419 extra honor and, of course, the 3 Warsong Gulch Mark of Honor for winning. I then fought in 3 AV's, all losses. It is AV's holiday weekend and the weekend warriors and AFKers were out in force. The new thing now is to take and hold SHGY for some reason which always results in a loss unless the Horde team is really, really bad which usually they are not. I made up a little saying that I post at the start if the battle but it doesn't seem to help, "Dick took SHGY, Dick cost the Alliance the battle, don't be a Dick, LEAVE SHGY ALONE!". I also fought in one AB which was a win. It was close and I thought we were going to lose all throughout the battle, everyone was so spread out, but somehow in the end we ended up with a 5 cap for the win. I write that one off to a really bad Horde group. That was all the time I had for battlegrounds.

Daily's 8/21/08

The only daily I did today was the fishing, I did it on Wranngar and it was Bait Bandits. After I picked it up from Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest I headed over to my spot at the waterfall by Tuurem and got the Blackfin Darter I needed on the first cast. When I turned it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures I got 7g44s65c, 6 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Giant Shark Tooth. Certainly nothing to write home about but I will keep plugging away at it.

Battlegrounds 8/21/08

Today's battleground was Warsong Gulch. I did it on Wranngar and we won the first one I was in. It didn't look good at the start but we managed to pull it off somehow, I capped one flag. I got the 11g99s and 419 extra honor this daily pays plus the 3 Warsong Gulch Mark of Honor you get for winning. After that I did one EoS, we lost. I got in late and you could see there was no teamwork, a few people trying for one tower, a few trying for another, they managed to hold one and we didn't get another before it ended. After that I went into AV. I fought in 13 battles, 6 wins and 7 losses. Sad to say that is pretty good for Alliance in AV these days. We had 2 losses where people took and held SHGY which is a guaranteed loss and one win where they took it and we won on reinforcements. The only reason we pulled that off was the Horde team was pretty bad. It would have only taken about 10 minutes if they hadn't taken SHGY, and we would have killed Drek for extra honor, but it ended up taking over 45 minutes after they did. After that the winning plan seemed to be rushing FWGY, then hitting FWRH and having the people that died in the initial rush get TP and IBT. The other losses were just poor teamwork. As usual there were a lot of AFK in all the battles. No surprise as Blizzard doesn't seem to be doing anything about that problem.

Battlegrounds 8/20/08

Today's daily battleground was Eye of the Storm, I did it on Wranngar and got it done on my second battle. The first battle was pretty close but, once again, people were more interested in getting the flag than holding the towers so we went from a nice lead to losing by 200 resources..... In the second battle I had a better group and we held 3 towers throughout and had the 4th tower at the end, we won by 1600+ resources. The daily battleground pays 11g99s, 419 honor above and beyond what you get in the battle and of course I got the 3 Eye of the Storm Mark of Honor. After that I headed into Alterac Valley for 6 more battles, 3 wins and 3 losses. We got our wins by rushing FWGY then moving forward into FW Keep and taking the RH and towers there. The people that died and got sent back to DB came along and got IBT and TP and once we had at least 3 towers capped we killed Drek. In our losses the biggest problem is still people going for Galv at the start. This breaks our offense apart and really gives the Horde a chance to take down the smaller number of people trying to get through to FW Keep. And there was one battle where the Allaince took and held SHGY. How long has it been since patch 2.4 came out and people are still making the same stupid mistakes? It is pretty sad that people can not learn from their mistakes. As usual we had a lot of AFK in all the AV battles and a couple in the EoS battle too. The AFK problem is really getting out of control. I know Blizzard doesn't want to offend the AFKers, they are paying customers, but the people that are trying to win are getting pretty pissed off and they should think about that too.

Daily's 8/20/08

I did the daily fishing today on Wranngar, it was Felblood Fillet. I headed over to my spot at the Pools of Aggonar (39,37) in Hellfire Peninsula to catch my Monstrous Felblood Snapper and got one on the 12th cast. I headed back to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest and turned it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. I got 7g36s87c, 5 Sharpened Fish Hooks and 3 Jaggal Pearls. Nothing great today.

Daily Fishing 8/19/08

Today's daily fishing was The One That Got Away, I did it on Wranngar. I got the quest and headed out to my spot at Lake Sunspring (34,43) in Nagrand and started fishing. I got the World's Largest Mudfish on my 3rd cast so that was quick and easy. I headed back to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, and turned it in for my Bag of Fishing Treasures. In there I found 6g51s13c, 4 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Razor Sharp Fillet Knife which I sold to a vendor for 4g28s. Nothing exciting today but I will keep plugging away at it.

Battlegrounds 8/19/08

Today's battleground was Arathi Basin. I am not sure what the Alliances problem is lately in ALL battlegrounds but it was another pathetic day in the battlegrounds for the Alliance. It took me 9 battles on Wranngar to get my daily done, 9 battles before we had a win :(. Nap time must have been over and the kiddies were rearing to go it seems. People could not be content with holding the 3 nodes you need for the win, they had to spread out with 2 going to one and 3 going to another, fighting on the roads which leads to nothing and basically leaving one person to defend a node if any at all. When the Horde comes in to take a node they come in 5 or 6 so one person doesn't last long. Anyway we won the 9th battle I was in and I was able to finally get out of there. After that I did some Eye of the Storm, we weren't doing a whole lot better in there. I was in 5 battles, 3 wins and 2 losses. Once again people seemed to be more interested in getting the flag than they were in capping and defending towers. The way to win in EoS is to have at least 3 towers THEN run the flag. We had people, half the team, going for the flag when we didn't even have a tower, tell me those aren't little kids. They would get the flag and have nowhere to go with it. I did 5 AV's also and that was just horrible. We had one win and 4 losses. People were not working together and, of course, they were going for Galv first. In one battle, loss, at least 10 people went for Galv, breaking down the offense, and didn't even kill him, then everyone ended up back in DB and decided to stay there and turtle. In the one battle we did win we won by rushing FWGY then getting FWRH, FW Towers and TP. After we had those capped we killed Drek. Most of our losses the Horde won on reinforcements. The Alliance wins about 1 in 20 wins on reinforcements but people are still arguing that we need the 100 reinforcements Galv knocks off the Horde. It is crazy. There was a lot of AFK in all the battles I was in, the AFK problem now is worse than it has ever been in spite of Blizzard "working" on the problem. In the attached screen shot you can see how many people had 0 damage, 0 heals and 0 caps 10 minutes into the battle. There were also AFK in EoS and AB which really hurts because you have much smaller teams.

Battlegrounds 8/18/08

I haven't written about the battlegrounds lately because the Alliance have been doing so bad there is really not much to say. From 8/15-8/17 I fought in 40 battles on Wranngar, 16 wins and 24 losses. It was a bad few days. I don't know what is wrong but the Alliance is performing worse than usual which is pretty bad.

Battlegrounds 8/18/08 - I fought in every battleground today, we did good in some and bad in others. I fought in 7 AV's, 2 wins and 5 losses. For some reason lately people are taking and holding SHGY, they are doing it on a regular basis and, as usual, it causes a turtle, long battle and loss. In our 2 wins we rushed FWGY or FWRH and capped the towers for the win. The last battle we won it was really close. The Horde started on Vann before we started on Drek but because they had so many on defense we were able to DPS Drek down before they were able to get Vann. In one of our losses we had FWRH, FWGY, and of course Galv as people seem to be doing him first thing lately, but we did not have IBT or TP and could not take down Drek with 2 towers up. You can tell a lot of the people have no clue what they are doing in there when they are saying to rush right to Drek and kill him. I keep telling them to learn the importance of the towers. Each tower represents a Warmaster in with Drek and also adds +25% to Dreks health. When there are 4 towers up Drek is at 200% health and he has 4 Warmasters with him along with 2 Elite Frostwolves. Hopefully people will learn or put their characters back on eBay where they got them. I also fought in 3 Eye of the Storm, 1 win 2 losses. This is a battleground we usually dominate in, if that gives you an idea how bad the Alliance is doing. I fought in 8 Arathi Basin, 4 wins and 4 losses which is about right for that battleground. The strange thing there was it was there holiday weekend which is when you usually get the worst players, the "weekend warriors" that only go into the battlegrounds for the extra honor. I fought in Warsong Gulch too, a battleground we usually do really bad in but we ended up winning 4 and losing 2 so everything is whacked :). Hopefully things will even off during the week and get back to normal.

Daily's 8/18/08

I did the daily fishing on Wranngar today, it was Bait Bandits and I got one of the elusive suckers on my third cast. When I turned back in to Old Man Barlo, (40,59) at Silmyr Lake in Terokkar Forest, for my Bag of Fishing Treasures I got 6g51s1c, 5 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Shadow Pearl. Nothing great today but, as we have seen from the Eye of the Sea I got a little while ago, there are still some great rewards to be had.

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.

Battlegrounds 8/5/08

Another really bad day for the Alliance in the battlegrounds today. I fought in a bunch of them on Wranngar, mostly AV. Eye of the Storm was my daily again today and we won the first one I was in. I went back in later and we won another one. I also fought in one AB which was a loss but it was a pretty close loss, they only beat us by a few hundred but it was a major battle the whole way. I think if people had listened a little better and worked together better we would have had it. I am not sure what the problem is as we usually don't do too bad in AB but lately we have been losing a lot in there. I fought in 2 WSG, one win and one loss. I got to run the flag a few times and got the winning cap in the battle we won. I fought in 11 AV's, 4 wins and 7 losses. I was using the Macro I made trying to give people a plan to follow but all I can say is most of the Alliance are not capable of following a simple plan... In the ones that we stuck close to the battle plan we won, in the others people were just going off doing their own thing. In a couple of our losses they held SHGY for the turtle and loss, when will people learn? That is another thing about the Alliance, the do not seem capable of learning from their mistakes as they make the same ones over and over... I can see that it will not be too much longer before I am burned out on battlegrounds again and go back to doing my daily's.

Alterac Valley Marco

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 has 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 1. GRP 1-3 GO TO RH, NO STOPPING FOR ANYTHING!
/bg 2. GRP 4 CAP FrostWolf GraveYard and Defend!
/bg 3. GRP 5-6 Cap Tower Point
/bg 4. 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 into your tool bar.

You're done.

Battlegrounds 8/4/08

Today was another bad day for the Alliance in all the battlegrounds except, surprisingly, AV. I fought in battles in all battlegrounds on Wranngar. Eye of the Storm was my daily and I won the first one I was in, then went back for 4 losses. I don't know what the Alliances problem was today in a battleground we usually do very well in but we just couldn't get it together it seems. I only fought in 2 WSG battles, both losses but I did get to capture the flag a couple times. I only fought in one AB and it was so bad I decided not to go back. It wasn't a 5 cap on the Horde's part but it was one of the worst I have been in without the Horde 5 capping us. There was no teamwork, everyone was running around doing their own thing, no one was working together towards one goal. AV on the other hand we didn't do too bad in especially considering it was still their holiday weekend. I was in 9 battles, 4 wins and 5 losses. The strat that still seems to be working well is rushing FWGY and then moving back and forward and getting the towers from there. Of course, like any plan, that only works if everyone follows it and the Alliance seems to have a problem following even the simplest plan. Of course we were plagued by AFK in every battle I was in. My TuringTest AFK Reporter is working well and it would be great if at least 5 people in every battle had it installed as it takes 5 people to report someone before they are marked AFK. I think if 5 people in every battle had it, AFK would be a thing of the past. I advertise it once in every battle and hopefully people will catch on.