Generally, I don’t mind PvP between equally leveled people, but, if you’re going to PvP, and you’re level 40+, you should have enough knowledge of your toon to do things like… interrupt my healing, perhaps use a few cooldowns to do more damage than a charge + autoattack.

Truewarrior was at Fel Reaver in Eye of the Storm, and, kept getting kited further and further from the flags. I was healing inbetween trying to keep the people defending the flag alive while trying to keep him alive – even though he should have known to fight near the flag. He expressed his dismay at a repair bill.

Moymoy was in an Arathi Basin where half our team decided to just let the Horde win. He and I went to either Farm or Blacksmith, took out a few people, but, didn’t get the flag. Still, I love those clutch situations where it is two on five, and we take out four of them.

He’s a dodge priest with his +7 agility to gloves.

A brief video of omgimahealer camping.

Congrats! You couldn’t even one-shot me!

Now, don’t be scared, get back to Borean Tundra or Howling Fjord and level up.

Many of the premade characters are also farming rep with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. Combined with the three turnin codes at the vendor that everyone wants to get, there is a steady stream of cross-faction battles around that Goblin.

There are so many dead bodies in Booty Bay floating in the water, around the boardwalks and inside Booty Bay. The number of skeletons in the tunnel last night was just amazing.

Once you head from Booty Bay up to Stormwind for a little more PvP action, as you enter Elwynn Forest, doing a /who results in 24 Horde in the zone. Last night we had a druid/rogue raid on Stormwind which was a lot of fun. Since all of us could stealth, the Alliance had no idea how many people were there.

Along the way I ran across a bunch of dead bodies.

Once you get into Stormwind, there aren’t as many Horde in the channel. For some reason, people get a kick out of people in Trade talking while taking out the Alliance.

Even without a raid going on, about a half hour later we had a few more Horde in Stormwind.

All in all, I only found a few minor combat issues with rogues on the Public Test Realm. Distract seems to lag slightly, but, some of the character classes are a little more balanced. The new instance isn’t up yet and the Battlegrounds and Arena were down after a glitch in the new Battleground.

The Public Test Realm just came up, Battlegrounds and Arena appear to be open, the new Boss is supposedly in VoA but the new Ulduar is still down.

Horde outnumbers Alliance 4:1 on this realm if not more, so, it is always interesting when the Alliance picks a fight. Qwaitxten isn’t that well geared — he’s got the BoA shoulders and the Arcanite Reaper with Crusader, but, other than that it’s all quest gear.

To be fair, Sormodann must be a relatively new hunter as I found it very easy to kill him. No hunters mark, he didn’t disengage and when I ran up to him, it is obvious that he wasn’t used to melee. I guess he felt his 2 levels would have given him a considerable advantage.

That coordination won the game. I was amazed to see about 35 of our raid group all ‘within range’ according to grid when we got to the eastern workshop. We lost a few on the way over to random fights, but, as soon as we took east, we cleared out the defense that the alliance had set up and went mid. Within a few minutes, we had a few siege engines battering down the walls and towers and once we broke through the walls to the inner courtyard, short of a few alliance that were brave enough to defend against 35 horde storming in, we didn’t see much action. After the inner walls were breached, we parked 2 Siege Engines there until we took down the towers, broke through the wall and secured the relic.

Coordination easily won that game. It was one of the smoothest battles I have been in. The Alliance had 13 stacks of Tenacity and if I recall the patch notes correctly, a 4:1 imbalance receives 20 stacks. A 2:1 ratio would give them 10 stacks, so, I would say that the battle probably was 95 to roughly 60. I know we had 2 full raid groups and the third one had 15 at the end. We probably had two or three that never made it into a group and just zoned in too late to get an invite. I know we saw 20+ on our way to the east as by the time we hit the mid wall, I had completed ‘Slay them All!’. We had a mass of 35 or so Horde killing everything in our path and there’s not really any way they could have rezzed and gotten back into battle as we massed to the southeast wall.

As we hit the center courtyard, we couldn’t have seen more than 10 people inside. Either they all went east and grouped around their exit knowing they were going to lose the battle or hearthed from the gy.

I admit. Seeing a mass of 35 players coming at you and a group of 5, even when you each have 65000 hit points can be rather daunting. I don’t believe we saw more than 2 vehicles created on the Alliance side which proves that we either steamrolled them or, none were able to get enough kills to create any vehicles.

Now if we could just get our defense as organized…

The joys of leveling up on a PvP server.