Arathi Basin - Because it's shiney!

[Jobu]

By the way, what are the best strategies/class combinations for a two or three man base defense team?

I had best luck with a mixing of rogues and mages. Sap one, sheep another, unload on a third. The horde bases being guarded by shamans were the hardest to overcome. Those fuckers just do not die.

I really like the new battleground, but I'm not really enjoying being an honor farm for Horde guilds. I really need to join a big PvP guild or something. Ugh.

[Threash]

By the way, what are the best strategies/class combinations for a two or three man base defense team?

I had best luck with a mixing of rogues and mages. Sap one, sheep another, unload on a third. The horde bases being guarded by shamans were the hardest to overcome. Those fuckers just do not die.

I really like the new battleground, but I'm not really enjoying being an honor farm for Horde guilds. I really need to join a big PvP guild or something. Ugh.

God i hate shamans, they can kite you forever without even trying to kill you while they wait for their buddies to rez.

[Calantus]

We've found that 2 shaman and a rogue can easily defend the BS long enough for reinforcements to arrive no-matter what hits it if they are good. The rogue because they have some CC but are not vulnerable to initial CC due to stealth. I imagine it would be even easier with paladins in place of the shaman tho, or with good armor priests, but they are SO rare.

[Slayerik]

Warriors are trucks. Geared ones are anyways.

Here are some Priest tips for you all. The Mill is your friend. Mind control and chuck your enemies off the cliff. Took a base 2 on 1 like this.

Mind control Pallys out of the fight. Without their cleansing/healing/stuns/consecrate to break hacks the alliance lose a lot, they have less priests.

Our strat uses 5 to mill, 7-8 to smith, 2 to ninja mine if few alliance come. If not they meet us at the stables after we work them at the mill.


AB i have found to be very fun, then again I'm leader of a top Horde guild on Shadowmoon so we have 15 guys on teamspeak, with epic mounts and a good share of purples. We roll teams, and I find rolling alliance to always be fun.

[Paelos]

Warriors are trucks. Geared ones are anyways.

Here are some Priest tips for you all. The Mill is your friend. Mind control and chuck your enemies off the cliff. Took a base 2 on 1 like this.

Mind control Pallys out of the fight. Without their cleansing/healing/stuns/consecrate to break hacks the alliance lose a lot, they have less priests.

Our strat uses 5 to mill, 7-8 to smith, 2 to ninja mine if few alliance come. If not they meet us at the stables after we work them at the mill.


AB i have found to be very fun, then again I'm leader of a top Horde guild on Shadowmoon so we have 15 guys on teamspeak, with epic mounts and a good share of purples. We roll teams, and I find rolling alliance to always be fun.

Yeah the part about teamspeak, the purples, the mounts, and the same people over and over working together. That pretty much sums up why the alliance use. Any strategy is just icing. You will win any even up fight, and most likely even outnumbered fights.

[Ironwood]

I danced around 3 pallies for about five minutes last night at the stables.

I mean, seriously :  How do you expect to win if a fifth of your group is fucking about with a 15th of the enemy ?

Gouges, bombs, KS and blinds kept them all dicking about like the toothless wonders that they are.  And all the while, our points rack up...

The Alliance on our Server desperately need more practice, yet I sympathise that they can't get it with the huge queues.

[Dren]

The Alliance on our Server desperately need more practice, yet I sympathise that they can't get it with the huge queues.

That's exactly my problem on my server.  I've been in one BG because I got lucky and got right in.  Other times?  Over an hour wait is not acceptable.  Yes, I can go do other things, but my play window is around 1 to 1.5 hours.  By the time I make it into a queue, I'm ready to log for the night.

BG's are just one more thing I can't participate in much like raids (due to time requirement.)

Yes, sand+crouch=me.

[Ironwood]

Same Side BG's.  No Points, just practice.

Go for it.

[Slayerik]

The Alliance on our Server desperately need more practice, yet I sympathise that they can't get it with the huge queues.

That's exactly my problem on my server.  I've been in one BG because I got lucky and got right in.  Other times?  Over an hour wait is not acceptable.  Yes, I can go do other things, but my play window is around 1 to 1.5 hours.  By the time I make it into a queue, I'm ready to log for the night.

BG's are just one more thing I can't participate in much like raids (due to time requirement.)

Yes, sand+crouch=me.

Alliance get hit for once with a disadvantage cause of their pop? Oh Noes!

As horde, I have been facing 2 to 1 odds non-stop. Now that we even up teams its a real joke. No zerg to fall back on...

[Slayerik]

I danced around 3 pallies for about five minutes last night at the stables.

I mean, seriously :  How do you expect to win if a fifth of your group is fucking about with a 15th of the enemy ?

Gouges, bombs, KS and blinds kept them all dicking about like the toothless wonders that they are.  And all the while, our points rack up...

The Alliance on our Server desperately need more practice, yet I sympathise that they can't get it with the huge queues.

One of my favorite things to do is keep people tied up like that, or chasing me. Guess they dont realize that fighting me alone, with 3 of em, means a fight somewhere else is going to go badly. While they chase me usually we ninja the spot anyways cause they are too dumb to watch the flag! They are like bulls on red when they see me!

[Calantus]

Actually it is a good point. On my server we horde don't outnumber the alliance but have more active PVPers. For a 15-man AB group to get in we have to wait 40 mins. Alliance teams just get in one after the other. And I do mean teams, you very rarely come up against an alliance team that is a true PUG. When we go head-to-head with an alliance team we go in with around a 3rd of their experience and we are more likely to lose players during the long waits. It's not really fair that we have such a disadvantage because the majority of the alliance on our PVP server are fucking pussies. That's not something we can guage before we've commited to a char or that we can change. We just get screwed. Not to mention all the time we're kicking our heels not doing what we want to do.