Does your battle group follow patterns in Battlegrounds? Do the Horde always go for Blasksmith first while the Alliance hits Lumber Mill and Gold Mines in Arathi Basin? Or maybe both factions always rush the Green gate whent hey're attacking in Strand of Ancients? It seems like Horde always have the workshop each time I go into Isle of Conquest while Allies keep the Hangar and we fight over the docks. So are there patterns and habits of what bases to take, and what strategy to use in your battle group? How does this affect the game?


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Never stop going for the 5 cap, period.

Only losers and morons go for the "get 3 and hold" method.

 

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FYI There aren't battlegroups anymore. We all play together per region.

 

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I have a hard time when people at 85 are clueless about specific things in PvP. Ok, so maybe they didn't do any PvP leveling up but there are still basics that are pretty easy to grasp.


Kill and / or CC the healers


FIGHT ON FLAGS


I can't count the number of AB's lost because people chased someone away from a flag to kill them and the flag got ninja'd. Makes me nuts. Of you have 3 people whacking on a dps and no one's touching the healer and the dps won't freaking die. And it ties up half the group trying ot kill one guy because no one's dealing the the heals.


One of the things I've noticed lately is in Isle of Conquest. No one will kill the boss anymore because he's "bugged" and "unkillable". Hwever, downed him with a small group that had a lot of ranged that stood on the stairs, a couple healers and two competent tanks. Most of the raid was out farming kills and screaming at us for being in the keep. Since the boss is "unkillable" we were wasting our time. We won the BG.


The funny part was the two groups fighting back n forth on "how" to do the BG properly. One group held out that you got the siege and ran aound killed all the horde possible. One group just...did whatever. And the rest killed the boss.

 

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"ou men go this way. You men go that way. I'm gonna run around here in a circle."

 

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WIN!

 

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For Ilse in the 80-84 brackets it is extremely hard to kill the boss. I have leveled something like 12 toons through that bracket and played hundreds of isles total. Out of hundreds of games we managed to kill the boss twice.

Best strat is still to get the siege and camp GY's. But of course someone from your own team will always cap the gy you are camping to draw the game out as long as possible.

I hate all the same team griefing that goes on. There are so many people that try and make their own team as miserable as possible. You know the ones.... The ones who emote the /afk thing so when you start you are down players. The ones that blow bloodlust before the gates open. They cap whatever it is your team has decided not to cap etc. Those people must have a horrible life outside of the game to take all that into a game.

 

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Wow that's annoying.


"get 3 and hold"


Me/others: Umm...you know they will just keep zerging one of the three right?


Get 3 and hold - sounds good, rarely works. ;p

 

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Works with a disciplined crowd. You can shift people very fast between LM/Farm/BS, whereas the ally team is either taking a

- a longer route to BS
- wading through water to the BS
- climbing out of a hole in the ground to take Farm
- take the easy way to LM (which is usually anticipated and you can start converging there while the remnants of the last BS attack are being cleaned up)

 

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Why is this so hard for alliance to figure out? Get 3 and hold = allow them time to regroup, organize an offense, and NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DEFENDING.

 

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