Gomorra - Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth

I got Gomorra the Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth today. I was going to wait and get the Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth for him but the more I thought about it the more I didn't think the 2 on board vendors were worth another 8,000 gold. I may still get the Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth some day but right now I have other things to spend my gold on. Now I have the Reins of the Grand Ice Mammoth on both Wranngar and Gomorra so I can carry up to 2 passengers on either. That comes in pretty handy, especially when you are helping someone who is too low level to have a mount, I am sick of running places lol. It is also pretty handy when you are getting ready to go somewhere and someone says 'brb' like someone always does. They can just hop on and go AFK while I take them where we need to go. It has a picture, that comes up on my screen when I mount it, that shows me how many I have on board and where they are sitting. It comes in handy when someone gets off or gets dismounted along the way.

Alterac Valley Strategy Macro

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 have 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.

Good Luck :)

-Wranngar

Battlegrounds 6/24/09

My daily battleground was Eye of the Storm again today. We won the first one I was in and I stuck around to fight in 3 more, 2 wins and one loss.

For the most part I got lucky and had some pretty good groups. In 2 of the 3 battles we won we had a 3 cap going and were running the flag. In the other win we had a 2 cap and were running the flag but so were the Horde, that one came out a lot closer. We did have a 3 cap going for a couple minutes but couldn't hold onto it. Towers are the key to winning in EoS, not the flag. If you can take and hold 3 towers you don't even need to touch the flag. With 2 towers you need to run, or at least hold, the flag to keep the Horde from running up points.

In the battle we lost no one seemed interested in getting towers, they were more interested in the flag. We got 2 towers at the start then lost one of them. No one seemed interested in getting it back, they were still trying for the flag. You can run the flag non-stop if you only have one tower and you're still going to lose. Unfortunately people don't understand that and it costs us a lot of battles.

I did my daily cooking and fishing too, cooking was Mustard Dogs! again and the fishing was Dangerously Delicious again, a lot of variety there... I ran around a little bit and desecrated some Horde fires while honoring some Alliance fires. I got a bunch more Burning Blossoms on Wranngar. Gomorra did the last cooking daily he had to do for The Rokk, (61,15) in Shattrath, to complete the Kickin' It Up a Notch achievement. He had already done all of them a hundred times but didn't have credit for any of them. He also doesn't have any credit for cooking any Outlands food which is just wrong. How did he get his cooking to 375, then on to 450, without ever cooking any Outlands food?