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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Alliance have a few people that glitch Wintergrasp and it is frustrating. We’ll be into a game, a wall will be down and instantly we have 12 Demolishers headed for that wall and into the center courtyard, through the walls and we lose Wintergrasp. Once the battle is over, the Alliance on Cho’gall keep their tenacity bonus. So, after this game where Horde defended both workshops extremely well, the Alliance decided to camp the graveyard spawn and repeatedly kill the Horde that were rezzing there. A call out in General chat and our raid group came en masse to help our stranded group members.

It turned into a 15 minute slugfest where we eventually pushed them back to their graveyard, killed all of their NPCs and pushed them into a small little spot. If you’ve never seen what happens when you resurrect in Wintergrasp, you are given a debuff where you cannot be damaged. Since we had killed their flight master and all of the NPCs, the Alliance stayed huddled in a little corner while trying to range dps us. Once in a while someone would get close enough for a death knight to death grip someone, but, a quick dispell and all was good.

They started it, we ended it.

While we could have at least scored a quick early point, somehow our Flag Carrier decided it would be funny to dance around midfield, some Alliance zoned in and quickly got to our flag room. The game ended 3-2 with Horde winning.

At level 80, almost every battleground I have tried starts with a deficit on the horde side except for Alterac Valley. In AV, I have yet to see a match where we didn’t have at least 15 more players than the Alliance. I started twinking after I saw the horde honor farming rather than playing the game. They were concerned with how much honor per hour they could earn and they would queue up for those battlegrounds. The only time you saw decent queues were on battleground holiday weekends and even then, people were there for the ‘quick honor.’

3.1 brings with it Battleground Queuing from anywhere and queuing up for 5 battlegrounds at a time. Now, if people see a game they don’t think will be quick honor, they’ll have 4 other battlegrounds to choose from.