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54 kills in 52 minutes

In most Battlegrounds, I play D (Defense) and generally don’t get many kills.  In this game I recall us having an Alliance Turtle and they just kept on sending in the troops.

Fun times.

I run a lot of PUG groups and sometimes will run with a guildie, however, today, I was running solo and got into a rather interesting PUG of 5 rogues and 5 paladins.

It was a very quick match with us getting 3 returns very quickly.

5 Rogues, 5 Paladins for a quick WSG

Today we the guild of IdTankThat farmed carrot on a stick. We downed Gahz’rilla (46 Elite) with two of our best members.

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On a side note we are still hard at work not spamming trade to recruit anyone.

My main is a Holy Priest that was originally going to be a PVE healer, but, due to changes in my work schedule, I ended up becoming a battle healer. I use Grid which makes it easy to heal in situations where you cannot control the raid group layout. For AB, I usually run support on the front lines whereever we are attacking. Horde somehow at 70 still doesn’t understand that defending and holding three nodes while attacking the other two with smaller forces equals a win and they often times do the all out zerg, leaving Farm undefended because they are too good to D.

Once in a while you get into a relatively good group that is there to win, and will listen and communicate which is the key. Calling out Incs – in the 70 bracket, its very easy to get somewhere to react to an incoming. In the 29 bracket, if you’re at mine, and the inc is LM, getting people from BS to move to LM and from Mine to move to BS is hard to coordinate in a Pug. However, in this AB, we did pretty well. I tried to be where I could do the most good and I think I ended up paired with udderpwnage and we rolled down, took Mine and defended.

I remember this game. I had a few minutes after lunch and decided to run an AV which was our daily on Cho’gall. As soon as I entered the game, we were already down by 200 resources so I headed to our base to delay the inevitable as our team punched forward. Sometimes, Horde can pull it together if we can buy them enough time, but, in this case, the Alliance was too far ahead.

I did get to hit 555k healing in this AV though.

Arathi Basin is probably my favorite battleground for the 20-29 bracket, 30-39 and 70. I didn’t play it frequently in the 49 bracket, but, I do recall not linking it or the 59 bracket. As a Battlehealer, I sure don’t dish out the damage, but, I try to keep my damage dealers alive. I was healing alongside a boomkin and I remember quite the struggle to hold on to nodes with very little defense, but we ended up 4-capping for the win. We had a few turnovers in the game, but, we came out on top.

Another AV where I topped 500k in healing. On this one, Alliance left a pocket of defenders just below Vann to disrupt our attack. They took back the Aid Station (why doesn’t Horde defend that ever?) forcing us to respawn at the SPGY. Didn’t matter, we still won, but, we could have done it a little more quickly with a little defense.

I play a few pug AVs as a battle healer and usually its quite a mix of healers that hit the top of the charts.  Shammy’s have quite heavy heals and are typically near the very top.  I’ve seen Druid’s that have come very close to the top, but, it is very rare to see 7 priests in a row topping the healing charts in an AV.

Priest Healing for the win!

Horde hates long games. They want to get in, farm their honor and marks, and get out. One of the surest ways to screw up their fast game, and send healers on their way to setting healing records, is to take Snowfall Graveyard. What this does is create a real problem if Horde is defending our base because all of the Alliance now respawn at SPGY or the Aid Station creating a flood of Alliance trying to get out to hit the base. It then becomes a battle of reinforcements where its a matter of trying to manage mana or get out of combat to drink/eat. I love those types of battles and I’m sure most of the Horde enjoys them as well because there is no real strategy needed. Its kill or be killed.

Usually, I’m a breakout healer. There will be a few top players that hit the top healing, and then the gap between the first few and the next group will be substantial. Many times, we’re talking multiples between 4th and 5th place. Nothing wrong with that, but, it just shows that some people that are not specced for healing will step out and help. I’ve seen ret pallies heal from time to time when things get rather tough.

This game, Horde just dominated the healing. Usually the top 10 positions are split rather evenly, this time, Horde just took the cake and ate it.