Isle of Conquest. I dig it.

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For a while now, my boyfriend Pete has been badgering me to rock out the Isle of Conquest with him, for a number of reasons. First, it's way more fun to do battlegrounds with people you know. Secondly, it's way more fun for a really good DK to own face in BGs when said DK has a dedicated druid healer in the same room as him. We're pretty much unstoppable. It's fantastic.

So I logged in on Averna (hey, Av, long time no see!) and he got us queued up.

Pete: "Ok, we're gonna go docks first."
Me: "Ok."
Me: "......"
Me: "Wait."
Me: "What's docks."
Pete: "/facepalm"

It reminded me of the first time I did AV. I didn't have an epic mount. Pete's advice to me? "Follow everyone else." Oh, ok. Wait up guys!!! Wait for meeeeeeeeeeee-

And so, the noobiness began all over again. Pete was great about explaining stuff to me though (he's pretty good at being patient with things like this). Next thing I know, I'm parachuting down into their fort, I'm rocking out in a demolisher, and I'm in some stealth catapult cannon thing, launching into their base. This last one is by far my favorite thing to do. I catapult in, shift into cat, and immediately prowl. Then I just stealth around in there, laughing on the inside because I'M IN UR BASE LOL.


*snicker*

Now, this isn't actually the most advantageous thing to do, because I can't KILL anything in there (sigh, if only lifeblooms could be used for evil). So I'm that player that you all probably yell at in BG chat. Sorry. I'm still learning! There's a curve, here!

And until I actually learn how the entire BG works, and I jump ahead on that learning curve, you better believe that I will be IN UR BASE.

Teehee. ^^

Ok, that *never* gets old for me.


Anyway, so far, the Isle of Conquest has been nothing but awesome sauce. As my awesome guildmate Norda put it, "It's everything AV should have been."

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Battlegrounds

Battlegrounds, in order of most favorite to least favorite:

1. Arathi Basin

2. Alterac Valley

3. Eye of the Storm

4. Warsong Gulch

I don’t understand people who enjoy WSG. It’s awful. It sucks. Also, it blows. I would rather do EotS than do WSG. Yeah, it’s that bad.

I’ve found that communication is non-existant in WSG. Granted, most alliance players in a pug BG have trouble with basic communication, along with spelling and grammar. “BUFZ PLOX!!!!!11oneone.” Nuh-uh, bitch, no buffs for you. L2type, and then maybe I’ll throw you a MotW. You know what, I’m even gonna go out of my way to individually buff thirty-nine other people in an AV, just so that you don’t get the raid-wide buff. Eat it.

Back to WSG. Communication is nil, people fight in the middle of the BG (this is not an objective people! There is no possible way to win if you only fight in the middle of the field!). (And I know that people fight in the road in AB and EotS, but in my experience, WSG middle-fighting trumps both of ‘em). (No more parantheses for a bit). (Sorry).

The basic strat: A strong offense runs to the other base, gets the flag, heals the flag carrier as he runs back, and burns down the opposing team’s flag carrier as he comes back. Sounds easy, right? Wrong. Every single time I’m in WSG, the flag carrier totally eats it on the way back cause he decided to go on a suicide run with no healer with him, and he’s oh, I don’t know, a mage or something. Mages wear cloth. And can’t heal themselves. And can’t run fast (correct me if I’m wrong - I don’t play a 70 mage or anything - but mages are crappy flag carriers, right? Not cause they suck at playing, just cause of their build?). OR, everyone fights in the field and ignores said flag carrier as his health slowly dwindles to nothing, OR, everyone fights in the field and ignores the other team’s flag carrier as he merrily skips by everyone to his home base. Or (and most likely), all of the above. Every single time.

Pretty much the only reason I’d ever do WSG is for the small rush of adrenaline I get when I’m the flag carrier. Other than that, I’d rather set babies on fire.

(Ok, really though, I wouldn’t do that. Really. Don’t call child protective services for all the kids who live in my neighborhood. Thanks.)

Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley are pretty rad, because 1: We tend to win them. And 2: See 1.

Before everyone gets all wrahhhh on me here, honestly, I think it’s a coincidence. I know many people who are just as good players as me, if not better, who report losing quite often in AB and AV. I think I’ve just had good groups and some good runs. I find that communication is better in AB than in WSG. I don’t know why. Anyone care to explain, or beg to differ? And in AV, you don’t necessarily have to talk all that much until it’s time to go all in, so communication is less of an issue to begin with.

So. What’s YOUR favorite battleground?