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.

Brieanna 9/24/08

I got Brieanna to level 35 tonight. That opened up a couple doors. I got my first aid up to 375 and my cooking up to 293. I can also get the fishing quest when I hit 225 fishing skill. I leveled to 35 in Theramore which is where you take the first aid quest/test to learn first aid to 300. I took the quest/test and completed it on the first try. You have to save 15 soldiers before 6 die. They range from injured to badly injured to critically injured. Obviously you have to tend to the critically injured ones first while the injured ones can hang on a little longer. I think I had only 3 die by the time I healed 15. Once I had the skill to take me to 300 I logged over to my cloth bank and sent the cloth I needed, logged back over, and made some bandages. When I hit 300 I logged onto Gomorra and went to the Temple of Telhmat in Hellfire Peninsula to get the books to take Brieanna to 300. When I got there a 70 Rogue was attacking the place. I landed and he was standing there laughing at me so I killed him. I don't think that was the outcome he was looking for :). Anyway I got the books, sent them, then logged back to Brieanna and leveled to 375. I am glad that's out of the way and I don't have to worry about leveling it up anymore. I would like to get her cooking to 375 too, that would be very helpful while leveling.

Battlegrounds 9/23/08

Today's daily battleground was Alterac Valley. I did it on Wranngar and we won the first one I was in. I stayed and did 4 more, 1 win and 3 losses. We won the 2nd battle I was in then, you could see it, the quality of players changed. I don't know if school got out somewhere or nap time got over but the quality of players just declined rapidly. In the 2 that we won we got Galv and killed Drek along with capping all the towers so they were maximum honor games although that means nothing to me as I am maxed out at 75,000 honor and can not collect any more. I gave up after that but I did collect my 11g99s, 419 extra honor and 3 marks from AV for the daily.

Brieanna 9/22/08

I did some more questing in Stranglethorn Vale and got Brieanna to level 34. My next goal is to get her to 35 so I can continue my cooking and first aid. I will do first aid first and within an hour of completing the quest I will get my skill to 375, I have all the cloth in the bank just waiting. All I will need to do when I hit 300 is go to Temple of Telhmat in Hellfire Penninsula and get the book that will take me from 300 to 375. After that I will head down to Tanaris and do the cooking quest, that will enable me to get to 300 then I will have to buy the book in Honor Hold to get to 375. All my quests in STV are orange and red so I might have to go somewhere else to quest.

Brieanna 9/21/08

I did some more questing in Southshore and Wetlands then I headed over to Dustwallow Marsh on the other continent, Kalimdor. I got Brieanna to level 33 there and got a few quests. I did all the yellow and a bunch of orange ones then I headed over to Stranglethorn Vale to see if I could get any quests there. I got a few of them there and met up with a guildie so we quested together for awhile. I got a few quests done and am now 3 bars away from level 34. I logged off at the Inn in Booty Bay so I should have those last 3 bars rested when I log back on. Tomorrow I will hit 34 right off, go get my training and see how many quests I can do in Stranglethorn Vale. After that I will head back to Dustwallow Marsh and do some more there. Hopefully I will be able to get to 35 tomorrow.

Brieanna 9/19-20/08

In the last couple days I have been questing in Southshore, Wetlands and Duskwood with trips back to Stormwind as the quests require. I got Brieanna up to level 32 between logging over to Wranngar to help guildies and getting her cooking up to 225. 225 is as high as I can go until I reach level 35. So now I am waiting on level 35 for first aid, cooking and I am sure I will be waiting on it to level my fishing past 225 too as that is also a quest. I cleaned up all my old quests so now all the quests I have are Yellow, Orange and Red. I will probably work on her some more tomorrow and I want to do the daily fishing on Wranngar, I haven't done that in awhile.

Battlegrounds 9/20/08

For a little change of pace I did the daily battleground on Wranngar. It was Eye of the Storm and unfortunately it was also their holiday weekend. It took me 4 battles to get a win and my daily done. Some of the poorest playing I have ever seen in EoS. There were also a lot of AFK in the battles I was in, weekend warriors just in there for the extra honor. I also did one Warsong Gulch, we lost that one. I think I was the only one who made it past the half way point, everyone else was fighting right outside our base. They obviously weren't interested in winning.