Alterac Valley - Daily Battleground 3/3/10

Today the daily battleground was Alterac Valley. I did it on Brieanna and it took 3 battles to get a win.

I ended up fighting in a total of 31 battles, 16 wins and 15 losses. We got most of our wins early on and most of our losses later. As I have said before you can almost set your watch to the time this battleground goes to hell. We were doing pretty good early on, we had a few successful blitz's, a few successful zerg's and even a couple turtles we won. Then the zerg tards came on. These are the people who just say "Zerg" at the start. They don't bother to check to see if we have tanks, they don't bother to see if we have heals, they just keep saying "Zerg Drek" over and over again. That is when it is time to quit if you are there for honor or marks. I didn't have anything better to do so I stuck around. From that time on it was one failed zerg after another.

In half of them we would get to Drek and wouldn't have a tank, or we wouldn't have any heals, or we would only have 5 or 6 people there. There is always an excuse for the failed zerg, not enough heals, not enough people went, someone pulled too soon, but not the zerg fails 9 times out of 10 which is the real reason it fails. Add to that the quality and and intelligence level of the players at that time is so low and you are lucky if you win anything at all. I feel sorry for the players that can only play at that time, it must take forever for them to gear. I believe the main problem is most of them are children. You can tell by the way things are spelled, what is said, the fits some of them throw. I guess that is when school gets out somewhere, not a good time to be in AV. Almost all the battles, after the failed zerg, end up in a long, drawn out, turtle.

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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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