More Alterac Valley 3/2/10

I fought in some more battles for Alterac Valley on Brieanna today. The Alliance seems to be losing whatever edge they may have had in there. I fought in 20 battles, 9 wins and 11 losses.

One of the main problems today was the zerg and blitz. You get the same people in battle after battle calling for the zerg or blitz and failing almost every time. Yet they still do it... There was no good time to be in there today, it was a struggle for every win we had and the losses were long and hard. I hung on hoping it would get better but if anything it went from ok to worse.

At night, my time, is the worst time to try and get any kind of teamwork going, it just doesn't happen. It seems like everyone is going for the zerg but along the way you lose people to Galv, some people never even leave the cave, the AFK are really bad at night, and others just get lost and/or wander around. You are really, really lucky if you end up with 10 people out of 40 at Galv. Out of those 10 maybe 3 are bots. So you have 6 or 7 people that can actually help try to take Drek down. It is not enough. At that point the person who called for the zerg will say "Do we have a tank?". Because that's not something you want to get figured out before you rush to Drek... It usually ends with "Well, we're here we have to try". And by ends I mean ends. We wipe and end up back in Dun Baldar for the long hard turtle. This happened 5 or 6 times tonight. People would say, and I quote, "I won 5/5 so far today doing the zerg". That is a lie. Even on a good day it doesn't work that often. That is just to get people to follow them. When it fails, which I never had a doubt it would, they always have an excuse, not enough heals, tank not good enough, not enough people came... Not the zerg fails 9 times out of 10 though.

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Strand of the Ancients - Daily Battleground 2/3/10

Today my daily battleground was Strand of the Ancients. I did it on Brieanna and it took 2 battles to get a win which is about normal for the Alliance in this battleground. We usually win 50% of the time or so.

The first battle I was in we didn't do well at all, we didn't even get the yellow gate down, the gate of the yellow moon. The Horde had no problem getting to the Titan Relic and capturing it when it was their turn. They had the full 9 minutes to do it because we ran out the timer on our attempt.

The second battle went a lot better. We went first in both battles I was in. We got all the gates down and captured the Titan Relic in 5 minutes 30 seconds. Then it was the Horde's turn. They had the same amount of time we took, 5 minutes 30 seconds to try and capture the Titan Relic. If they had captured it, it would have resulted in a draw which is the same as a loss in my opinion, you only get one mark and you don't get your daily done. They didn't capture it though, they didn't even get through the yellow gate, so we won that one and I got my daily done.

This daily pays out 19g86s, 1241 bonus honor and 25 arena points. Brieanna can use the honor so I am good with that.

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