Eye of the Storm - Daily Battleground 3/8/10

Today the daily battleground was Eye of the Storm. I did it on Brieanna and we won the first one I was in for a change.

I got in with a pretty good group today, no Flagtards. We went after 3 towers, captured DR, MT and FRR and held them. We kept heavy pressure on BET to keep the Horde busy and actually managed to cap that towards the end so we won with a 4 cap. One of the best groups I have been in, in EoS, in a long time. There was a time when the Alliance owned EoS, we hardly ever lost in there, now I am lucky if I can get my daily done in the 5 try's I allow.

The daily battleground quest pays out 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. Brieanna needs the honor and arena points and the gold's not bad either.

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More Alterac Valley

The battle for Alterac Valley rages on and the Alliance had another bad day in there. I only fought in 8 battles today on Brieanna, 3 wins and 5 losses. That was enough.

The main problem today was the blitz. People wanting to do the blitz but not planning for it at all. The majority of the time they would wait until the gate opened the start spamming, "Zerg Drek, Ride Straight to Drek!". I took the liberty of correcting the spelling errors for this post. At that point there was no planning, no tank assigned, no heals assigned, is it any wonder it failed time and time again? I wasn't surprised.

I did get in with a good group for a couple battles. We did the blitz in both of them and you could tell it was a different quality of players. They assigned and marked a tank before the gate opened. They assigned and marked the heals before the gate opened. Over 75% of the people actually went to Drek. We went in and tore him down for the win. The Horde were blitzing too so it was either blitz or lose in all the battles I was in. It is unfortunate that the Alliance can't work together and blitz and lose go hand in hand most times. Anyway by the 3rd battle with the good group the quality players had gotten thinned out enough that people were saying the blitz won't work. We still had our good tank and heals but not enough DPS. We couldn't get it through their heads that the Horde were blitzing so it was blitz or lose. They wanted to cap towers, wait for them to burn, and then kill Drek. Needless to say the Horde blitzed, we lost and that was my last battle of the night.

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