Battleground stories

[Watto44]

Hehe, it's good the hear some PvP stories and it sounds like everyone's having a lot of fun. Yesterday I entered the warsong BG three times in pickup groups. (Although all three times the group was pretty much the same people, which was definately a factor.) All three times we were up against a combo of the two largest Alliance guilds on Terenas (Stehlen Life, first group to take down Ony and Rag, and Eternal Keggers) and got a pretty brutal beating. (And Mongo, you're right, it's very nerve racking when you check the scoreboard and see a lot of familiar, scary names.) But revenge was had!

First time we managed to capture a flag fairly quickly, which was good for moral and calmed everyone down a bit. (None of us had done much CTF yet, so it was good to settle.) However, the alliance came back with avengance, with a mage entering the base behind a screen of players, grabbing the flag and blinking like crazy. This tactic was repeated two more times, although we did manage to take the mage down the last time, the alliance had placed someone next to the mage who grabbed it before we could run down to it and return it. :,) We lost.

Second run was dead before it started. Some crew from one of the large horde guilds had accidently joined the que as individuals and left as soon as they realized, leaving us with five people. Sadly, the alliance managed to grab our flag twice before the instance closed. /cry :(

The third time was much better. We actually had ten people, and after two disasters we were starting to work together much better. Each side quickly grabbed a flag. Then after a failed offensive on our part where the entire offensive team died, the alliance rushed us, bulled through the defense and grabbed our flag. Luckily, a shaman had managed to grab their flag and hide before they could return to their base. With a priest backing him up, he was able to make it across the field (shield, dispell, scream FTW). While the rest of us distracted the opposition he hid on the roof of the lumber mill. We ended up with an interesting stand off for about 15 minutes, with each side holding the opposition's flag but unable to actually 'capture' it. In the end, the horde flag got returned to base and we jumped down and levelled the score 2-2.

With the scores level and all out brawl ensued in the center of the zone. As people ran into forts and grabbed flags the mellee would just sort of roll over them and swallow them whole...it was kind of like The Blob. :D In the end our flag carrier managed to get halfway across the field before the mob noticed him. His priestly backup was squashed just before I arrived, and he was doing his best Forest Gump impersonation infront of four pursuers. With a combination of frost shock, earthbind and quickened heals he managed to win through.

After getting roundly defeated in the first match, it was great to come back and win one. Definately a buzz, and some of the most enjoyable PvP I've had to date. (With a couple of exceptions.) I would strongly encourage everyone to have a go at these, even if you 'don't do PvP'. It's quite different to the usual XR/TM battles.
Cheers!