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While defending blacksmith in an Arathi Basin, we had 3 Shammies on D for a few minutes.

Quite a few totems…

What was the first thing people did when the realms came up? Checked their email to find out why their email was gone, QQed on trade for a few minutes the headed over to the honor vendor to see the new gear.

Most people in the room were complaining that they couldn’t talk to the vendor, but, must have forgotten that shift-V will show the friendly player names which can be clicked on to access the NPC. Needless to say, the tears in that room would have flooded Orgrimmar.

Bhodi hits 41k healing in a Warsong, but, I am not specced Resto. 🙂

I came into the game late and Horde was being hammered quite bad. Always love zoning into a flag room with 6 attackers. I stepped in, healed as much as I could, started to DPS and we repelled that attack, but, we still weren’t strong enough to overcome.

During the Scourge Invasion, there were quite a few people complaining about the crossroads being infected, and the carnage is quite evident.

During the Hallowed End’s holiday event, my pet Boar, affectionately named Boar, decided to bob for apples himself. He eats fruit, but came up emptyhanded this time.

Vow and Bhodi both had identical healing in this battleground which I thought was worthy of a screenshot. I’m not specced as a healer, but, will heal when needed.

So I was healing my main man Bhodi and playing some D on bs. I noticed that I got an achievement for a 1000 Honorable Kills, and hit that old Print Scrn. After the game I looked at the screenshot and noticed that my 1000th kill didn’t even hit the ground before my screenshot was taken.

In Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin, communications can be the key, but, sometimes people don’t know what some of the terms mean. These aren’t authoritative terms, but, they are what many in our battlegroup have come to use when they type.

D = Defense
O = Offense

Warsong Gulch

efc = Enemy Flag Carrier
etun = Enemy Tunnel
eramp = Enemy Ramp
egy = Enemy Graveyard
efr = enemy flag room

fc = flag carrier
tun = your tunnel
ramp = your ramp
gy = graveyard
fr = flag room

mid = midfield

Arathi Basin

gm = Gold Mine/Mine
bs = Blacksmith
farm = Farm
stab = Stables
lm = Lumber Mill

The trick to either Warsong or Arathi is to call out the info quickly.

When your flag is taken and the carrier is going out the tunnel, say: efc tun. Or, if they are leaving out the graveyard side, efc gy or efc ramp if they are going the other way. If you run D in the fr, you might say, 3 inc tun to let people know what is coming up. Even if you are midfield and can’t slow/kill the person, sometimes even shammy inc ramp can let the people in the flag room know that they should expect a shammy to drop in from the 2nd floor or come in through the entrance near your gy.

When you are running Arathi Basin, it is good to call out the incoming attackers early, and, give enough information that people can respond. It is much better to say, inc 3 farm from bs than to say ‘help’. Knowing where the attackers are coming from can allow other players to intercept and delay the attackers until reinforcements can get there. Many times, a few second delay can at least allow a defender to respawn and potentially save the flag.

Good communication wins games.

This Sunday, Horde was playing particularly badly, not defending flags, going everywhere just to rack up the kills so in the next Arathi Basin, we set out to cap nodes and farm Arathi Basin Assassin. It started out with us heading straight to LM where we met some resistance, capped (and lost) the flag as there were about 8 Alliance there. We rezzed, went back up to LM and recapped the flag, headed to Stables. Qwaitxfive earned Disgracin’ the Basin when we took Stables Flag. We were overrun, respawned at Blacksmith about a second before the flag at Blacksmith was lost. We defended the node, received our 5 kills at that point. We realized we had four minutes left and decided to go for the achievement. We went and dropped down to the Gold Mine, earned our 5 kills there, capped the flag, noticed that our team lost Farm. We moved in on farm and in the middle of combat received the achievement.

We didn’t really set out to get the achievement, but, it was fun to get.

We started 5 players down at the beginning of the match, and, with a number of turnovers we actually did stage a comeback. Usually in our battlegroup its a challenge to get enough teamwork to pull off a win, but, with this game we had enough turnovers and with a bit of luck, actually earned the achievement.