Friday (26 Mar) - Friday Night Fights

Friday (26 Mar) - Friday Night Fights

After all the brain twisting, eye numbing discussions of healing and DPS mechanics, it was nice to forget all about that and just go kill the enemy in the battlegrounds. Since our pvp team now has players on both horde and alliance side, sometimes it was hard to keep track of who the enemy was on any given battlefield. The fun stretched across more than just factions, encompassing Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch with pvpers from three different brackets.

It was Sin, Sis, and Philly in the 70s bracket, rockin' to 70s disco while rockin' heads against the alliance. It started with Philly, who got into a WSG battle that Sin and Sis missed the invite for. Philly was in pvp healing spec on a team that couldn't get it's act together. The allies congregated at the bottom of the ledge below the horde base and slaughtered everyone that came at them. It was clear the allies intended to farm kills and was in no hurry to cap any flags. Other horde players noted that, and some left. We had as few as 7 pvpers at times, against the 10 on the allie side. Since no one on the horde side was making any attempt to go after the allie flag, Philly decided to go for it, evading the knot of allies and heading for their base. Philly made it inside, where one defender found himself Feared away. Philly grabbed the flag and made a run for it.

Outside the allie base two more allies arrived but they couldn't bring Philly down as she kept up her Shield and self healed as she made it to the ledge on the allie side and jumped down. As she went she DoTed up the allies around her; not likely to kill anyone, but I bet it was annoying. Philly was getting hit with delaying tactics, but still fended off what was now three allies, getting halfway across the field toward her base. None of her horde team mates helped out, though, and they finally brought her down. Heck of a fun run, though. The horde rallied a bit at the end, but it was too little too late and we lost.

Sin and Sis, in the meantime, got into an AB match that was the complete opposite. They won the match and a special achievement for winning it in less than six minutes. That's fast!

Later we all switched to the 30s bracket (Mery, Lao, and Ando) and banged away at a different group of allies. The allie team we faced in AB had an interesting strategy of grouping and attacking objectives enmasse. They were usually able to eventually overwhelm us, but the strat left them vulnerable in other areas. The battles were awesome at the contested areas; the horde lost a few battles, but won the war and the match because we held more bases, and could recapture a base as soon as their main group left to attack somewhere else. In between BGs Lao wooed Mery with gifts - a nice high powered gun which she crafted herself and some amazing home made shells (the kind that put big holes in enemy players, not the ones you pick up on the beach). Mery offered to pay for the largesse, but I think the two girls worked out some other (private) arrangement. A day later Mery received a bouquet of more high powered shells, something Mery appreciated a lot more than a bouquet of flowers. Lao knows what Mery likes.

Then we switched to the alliance side and hit up the teens running around in Warsong Gulch. Neeky (druid, level 11), Java (paladin, 14) and Staar (hunter, 17) had a blast, even if we did occasionally forget which side we were on. I really didn't know how to pvp with a paladin, but over the course of three matches or so I started to get a feel for it. Pallies at that level basically have one sort of useful heal spell, one good melee attack, and two "save myself!" spells that can only be used once every two minutes. And a stun. That stun is important, as Java learned every time he forgot to use it - and died.

It was a great night of pvp, and for forgetting about all that pve strategy stuff.