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Some Free To Play healing screenshots

cd34 — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:07:32 +0000

When the World of Warcraft Free to Play accounts came out, I thought, I wonder if you can effectively twink a character at 20 to compete in the 20-24 bracket. Since you’re at the bottom of the bracket, you need to stack some hit if you’re going to be DPS, but, I’ve always enjoyed being a healer.

I’ve never played a paladin beyond about level 10, but, decided to try my hand with Luxxi – who has really become my primary Free to Play account. I also created a human priest, but, created a gnome priest, Brevisano, for battlegrounds.

One of these, the Horde dominated healing, but, fighting mid or camping the graveyard will allow you to get some large healing numbers, but, in the end, it is who moves the flag that wins.

Warsong Gulch starting area glitch

cd34 — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:53:24 +0000

When playing Warsong Gulch, I saw someone drink Rumsey Rum Dark and didn’t recognize the player name. It appears that when you’re in the flag room during the start, not only can you target the opposing faction, but, any drink buff they get is shown as if they are right next to you.

Here we see Breyanne, a 24 hunter twink, drinking Rumsey Rum Dark before the start of the game.

Tekkno resting in Wintergrasp

cd34 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:18:58 +0000

One of the most vocal people that will tell you just how good he is, always travels with a rogue on his Tundra mammoth, but, just sits near combat gaining honor. For a while, he had created an alt that talked in trade chat about how good he was – until someone with his real-id noticed that it was the same account.

He really is good, just ask him.

This was taken during a Wintergrasp where he was complaining about tenacity and how the Horde tends to group up to kill people – yeah, that’s what tenacity was supposed to help with. When you are outnumbered, you’re supposed to get a damage/hp/attack bonus to help balance the fight.

Wintergrasp Book

cd34 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:04:13 +0000

One time I was talking with someone regarding the Alliance’s win/loss record for Wintergrasp on Cho’gall and grabbed a screenshot of the book that is kept in the keep. Even with Tenacity, we can rarely defend as the battle’s used to be 120+ versus 10-15.

Pally healing done right

Qwait — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:20:51 +0000

I was healing some battlegrounds and when the game was nearing the end I saw that the druid was in 1st place on healing. I wanted to out heal him but, I never saw the pally coming. Maybe the druid and I should take some healing lessons from him. Yorkrao from Illidan, your heals are amazing.

Damage Control

cd34 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:49:24 +0000

Qwaitxtwo, a fresh 80 warlock respecced Affliction to run a few battlegrounds, and, it is extremely easy to get the big numbers

On the second or third AV, Horde took Snowfall Graveyard which results in a battle of reinforcements. Since the Alliance were stuck at the bridge chokepoint, it is just a matter of which side has more deaths.

During the game Qwaitxtwo received Damage Control and ended up with over 830k damage in the game. For a fresh 80 in quest greens and blues, that is pretty respectable.

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.