Alterac Valley Primer

[Trien]

I see no reason why sitting at the crossroads bridge area between stables-mine-BS is substantially worse then sitting at farm-LM-BS.

Sitting at the stables-mine-BS crossroads lets you reach any of those nodes pretty much as easily as sitting at farm-mill-BS crossroads. However once things start moving, and your defense force starts having to run back and forth to deal with attacks (assuming a well-coordinated attack team that isn't running around helter-skelter PUG-style), it becomes a bit different. Take the mine-BS vs mill-BS travel time. Say your defensive force has to run down to the mine to defend it. It has a much less direct route to take back to the BS, compared to riding from the mill to the BS. Plus slowfall/noggenfogger float/parachute cape lets someone get from the mill to BS quickly as well to reinforce. Same applies to assaults on the mine... at the LM if necessary you can CC/choke them off at the two ramps leading up to slow them down and buy time for more reinforcements to arrive, whereas attackers on the mine have the liberty of jumping down the edge to the flag if needed. And of course there's the visibility advantage of being at the mill--you can pretty much see where everyone is.