Battlegrounds 7/6/08

I fought in a couple different battlegrounds on Wranngar today. The daily battleground was Arathi Basin and we won the first one I was in. We had a good group that could follow a simple plan which was get ST, GM, BS and LM then move on to the Farm in a group pushing the Horde back the whole time. We got ST, GM, BS and the LM without and problem but the Farm took a little bit of time but we did get it for the 5 cap. When you have 5 nodes capped the resources rack up pretty quick. It took us less than 5 minutes total to win this one 2000/140. For this daily I got 11g99s, 419 honor and 3 Arathi Basin Mark of Honor.

The other battleground I fought in was Alterac Valley. I was in 2 battles, one win and one loss. In the first battle which was our win we had a good group that worked together. The plan was to go to FWGY and take that then move forward and back to get FWRH, the East and West Towers, IBT and TP. We did that and also ended up getting SHGY, SFGY, IBGY and Galv. When we got to IBGY the Horde were waiting for us but we just ran right over them. The Horde had nothing, not one graveyard, not one node capped. Usually holding SHGY is a really bad move but we had a really good group and there was nothing the Horde could do. We could have beat them on resources but we also killed Drek for the extra honor. This was a high honor battle. The second battle we didn't do as well, we had a lot of AFK and you could tell right from that start that it was a different group and the quality of players was just not there. The AFK problem is really bad and they just ruin it for everyone else. People were not working together, nobody followed the plan and everyone stopped at IBGY to fight the Horde instead of moving on to FWGY or FWRH and it just fell apart from there. We had SFGY and a lot of people wasted a lot of time trying to get SHGY which is pretty much useless to us and keeps the Horde from rezzing in front of us when they have it. By the end of the battle we had IBGY capping, IBT capped, Galv dead and were in the process of capping TP when the Horde killed Vann.

Daily's 7/6/08

I only did a few of my daily's today, maybe I will do more later when I log back on. I did the fishing which was Bait Bandits on both Wranngar and Gomorra. I also did Gaining the Advantage, The Multiphase Survey and the daily cooking which was Super Hot Stew on Wranngar.

Gaining the Advantage I did on Razorthorn Trail killing Ravagers. I am finding a better drop rate off them lately compared to the Clefthoof. Granted I don't get any Thick Clefthoof Leather off them but I do get a lot of Knothide Leather Scraps and Knothide Leather plus Ravager Meat. It didn't take me too long to get my 8 Nether Residue. From there I headed over to Nagrand and did The Multiphase Survey. It is really easy and goes fast in swift flight form. I had that done in a couple minutes.

The daily cooking had me heading over to Forge Camp Terror in Blades Edge Mountains to kill an elemental to cook my stew over. I took the mats I needed out of the guild bank as there are so many in there it is not worthwhile to go and kill Wind Serpents and Raptors for them. I killed an elemental and cooked up my Demon Broiled Surprise then headed back to The Rokk (61,15) in Shattrath to turn in. I picked Crate of Meat for my reward and got 8 Chunks o' Basilisk, 7 pieces of Buzzard Meat and 2 Large Fangs as well as the 7g59s this quest pays. Again I didn't do this one on Gomorra as it is really not worth the time it takes to fly out there compared to the reward you get.

The daily fishing had me heading over to my favorite spot at the waterfall (51,38) by Tuurem. I got my Blackfin Darter on the second cast on both Wranngar and Gomorra 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. Wranngar got 6g66s25c, 2 Elixirs of Water Walking and a Broken Spyglass which I sold to a vendor for 2 gold. Gomorra got 6g78s61c, 6 Sharpened Fish Hooks and a Giant Shark Tooth. Nothing too good there today but I will keep plugging along on this one. The rewards have been poor for awhile so it can only get better :).

I will definitely go back later and do some battlegrounds and maybe the daily quests in Shattered Sun.