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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The Battle for Alterac Valley

The battle rages on in Alterac Valley and Saturday brought back some memories, memories of how it used to be in Alterac Valley for the Alliance. I fought in 26 battles on Brieanna Saturday, 19 wins and 7 losses. That is the way it always used to be in Alterac Valley for the Alliance.

We were unstoppable for the most part. We were zerging, blitzing, taking towers, killing Galv, it seemed whatever we tried we won. We had at least a half dozen successful blitz's, at least that many zerg's and won a few turtles when the Horde decided to do that. I got a lot of kills and a lot of honor in there Saturday.

It was also my daily battleground on Saturday so I got that done in the second battle I was in. Yes, we lost the first one I was in and I hoped that wouldn't set the pace and it didn't. I love it when AV is my daily BG, I usually always fight in AV anyway so it is like free gold and honor, not to mention the arena points you get for your daily these days.

Sunday was a different story, it was back to business as usual for the Alliance in there. I fought in a total of 18 battles on Brieanna, 8 wins and 10 losses. It never ceases to amaze me how the Alliance can do so well in a battleground one day and so bad in the same battleground the next day, but it happens all the time. And not just AV either, we can win every battle in Isle of Conquest one day and lose every battle the next day. Same goes for all the other battlegrounds except Warsong Gulch which we just consistently lose in.

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