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Horde Dominates HKs but lacks defense

cd34 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:47:27 +0000

We had this game from the start, but, Horde got lazy. Alliance fought as a group, defended the nodes they took (Horde never does this), and beat us by playing smart. They didn’t have to top the HK charts to win, they held three bases and sent small 3 person groups to attack the nodes where Horde wasn’t defending. The strategy worked well as they ended up winning, and all of the Horde that ran around from base to base killing topped the HK charts, but, still lost.

I had been defending Blacksmith until I was left solo and a group of four took it, so, I ended up recapping farm with a few others and was stuck defending farm.

99 HKs on Defense

cd34 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:08:55 +0000

With the new Honorable Defender bonus, you get 50% more honor from your kills than you do when you are attacking. I’m not sure why Blizzard did this, but, as someone that usually defends, it is a welcome change. It doesn’t mean people will defend, and more than one time we’ve lost a base because someone capped a flag and left it to go fight. The ‘Too Good to D’ syndrome.

What most people fail to realize is, if you control three bases in Arathi Basin, the battle will come to you. Fight on the Flags when defending, pull the enemy from the flag when they are defending. It’s not a difficult concept.

Warlocks topping the healing charts in Battlegrounds

cd34 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:05:14 +0000

It isn’t surprising to see some healing on non-healing classes in the battleground scoreboards. Life Drain shows up for warlocks, Mend Pet shows up as healing for hunters. However, many hunters hit Mend Pet only when their pet is about to die because healing their pet takes away from their DPS. Sure, PUG battlegrounds should have healers once in a while, but, I’ve seen ret pallies that refuse to heal anyone around them, even themselves because they are there to DPS. Shadow Priests rarely pop out of shadowform even when it could save them.

Once in a while you’ll see some rogue that is relatively low leveled for the bracket and they’ll ask for a healbot — because by some miracle with a healer, they’ll be able to take out someone. If you call out for a healbot, and by some rare chance you get one, protect that healer — don’t charge into battle DPSing everything and allow the healer to get killed and then complain that you didn’t get any heals.

In any case, the screenshots of Qwickthree’s healing are a pretty sad testament to the healers in battlegrounds. They are virtually non-existent, but, very much appreciated when they are around.

Overall, it is just a statement that healers are pretty rare in battlegrounds – even on the twink battlegrounds.

Bendovr from Dragonmaw exploiting the Stable Roof

cd34 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:18:21 +0000

Bendovr, a Night Elf Druid from Dragonmaw got on top of the roof at stables. It takes a little creative work to kill players that get up there, but, they usually do quite a bit of damage before they are killed.

Relicc from Eldre’Thalas exploiting Stable

cd34 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:15:46 +0000

Relicc, a gnome mage from Eldre’Thalas got on top of the roof at stables to try and kill people. Luckily, a few drain manas and a well timed dot while he tried to evocate and he died pretty quickly.

It appears that they can be mounted and hit the little shed on the graveyard side of the stable and walk up the edge with a well timed jump. From there, they get on top.

Darthviolent exploits the Stable Roof

cd34 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:38:02 +0000

Darthviolent from Shadowsong exploited the roof of the Stables in Arathi Basin. Perhaps he forgot he was a warrior and not a caster as we all just dotted him and killed him with ease.

Remember, if you’re going to exploit, at least be of a class that can do something from up there.

Interesting Battleground Glitch with Warlock and Pet

cd34 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:34:08 +0000

While questing in STV, I decided to try a few battlegrounds, so, I hit H, queued up for Warsong and Arathi and was about to turn in a quest when Arathi popped. I was mounted, accepted the port to the battleground, played Arathi, and when I left the battleground, I returned to STV mounted, but, with my imp still summoned. His actions were greyed out, so, I couldn’t actually command him to do anything, but, he followed me around STV.

Damage Control

cd34 — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:08:24 +0000

cdthirtyfive got back into the battlegrounds and is running with a scrub mix of gear, but, I’m able to heal quite a bit before I get killed. In this one Arathi Basin it was a complete mess. Horde left a number of flags undefended which required recapping them, but, all in all with a few turnovers it was a pretty good game.

100 Honorable Kills

cd34 — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:37:09 +0000

Gotmooh was a 29 Tauren Shaman I created on Alterac Mountains to learn the playstyle of a Shaman before twinking Bhodi. While I didn’t play a lot of battlegrounds, and didn’t have the gear that many of the other people had, I did learn quite a bit about playing a shaman while being severely undergeared.

Gotmooh earned 100 kills after a few games and I was hooked playing a Shaman.

Bleeko, a level 30 Druid in Arathi Basin in the 20-29 bracket

cd34 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:38:18 +0000

While its not impossible for a 30 to be in a battleground, this druid had the time to get travelform, but, I don’t believe he was a twink as he only had 1300 hit points and died rather quickly.

Still, the coordination required and the fact he did have his mount, training, and had hit his druid trainer means that he did a bit of planning prior to.

Sorry for your death Bleeko.