How do you guys do in AV?

[cepheus]

I just have too much fun humiliating allys in AV nowadays I allmost never lose, and about each other games i manage to keep allys at zero (or close to) honor.

Currently I am sitting on about 60 wins in a row without one single loss (will post a screenshot of my counter when I finally lose).

It is just insane how much difference a good coordinated 5man team (or multiboxed in our case ) can do in a 40 man BG raid.
I've even won several times a gainst a 30+ premade AV team.

I especially enjoy those 30min+ fights where allys are getting 0 bonus honor. I wish I could have log of all those ally BG chats

[Dominian]

I havent done any AV myself so i cant realy say i have a clue but 5 players who play like a team can do pretty much anything in av..

Also been curiouse on how people do wsg,ab and eots?

If you hug crossroads in AB you can pretty much defend the nodes against big incs yourself and same goes for eots while wsg will be abit harder.

[ElectronDF]

What are you going to do when queue times go up to 3 hours cause they don't want to play and get 0 honor? I am not saying you can do defense, but always to shut them out makes them go away.

[Dominian]

Well i doubt it will happen since there basicly 50-60 avs up at all times in my bg and defending FW is pretty much the only way horde wins in AV in my BG... Rushing vs Rushing is lost from the start for the horde!

The way people do AV seems to be very different from BG to BG aswell!

People keep on dooing AV even if they do face skilled premades and then you REALY get 0 honor.. A good win gives horde 500-600 honor and the alliance 200-300. They never cap IB either so the run from SH to FW is very long! If you stop the first wave the alliance gives up in 90% of the cases.

[BobGnarly]

On my bg, horde (my faction) lose AV way more than they win. However, I have developed a one group strategy that I find very successful. This could be multiboxers, or just a group of 5 well-played, semi-geared pvpers.

Basically, you go to balinda with the rest of the cattle. After the kill, when most people start mewling about iwb/shgy, hang around about 30s, then mount up and head to ib tower, take it back. Then drop out and go recover tower point. Obviously, be adaptive. If the alliance is slow on taking the towers, don't just wait 30s and go. I try to give myself 2:30 from the time I leave balinda to the first tower capping.

If I manage to get both towers back, which is usually a given since only 2-3 on average will stay in the tower, if anyway, there is almost no way a pug can recover. If somebody comes and takes on the the two towers again, just go get it back. A well played group of 5 or so players can hold these two towers almost forver against and disorganized pug, which is almost always what you're facing.

Anyway, it's worked wonders for me. Try it if you're struggling on the horde side (or I imagine it'd work for the alliance side also).

[aNiMaL]

tbh,
So far I fail in PvP on the box,
I've only played 3 av's so far,
but I always ended up getting 15+hordes on me.
I'm rushing to much aswell, ending up in the middle of the enemy group isn't going to help me much.
I guess I'm still to used to being the 300+ resi warrior with a friendly healer covering health.

I've created my arena team,
but haven't started a single match due to my poor PvP performance.
I guess I'll get that started this weekend,
I've read a nice suggestion of getting drunk till you stopped caring about loosing

[Crayonbox]

animal, i suggest you start doing arenas even if you lose all 10 games. I really regretted not starting arena as soon as i hit 70 because im always 100-150 points short of whatever item i want. accumulating arena points as soon as possible is pretty important.

[Icetech]

My best strat for AV was to go up and defend galv, which would usually end up with the allies leaving to move forward and galv lives then i watch timers and go take back IBT with like 1:30 left on the timer.. if i have time i get tower point...

Then i setup camp inside one of the towers and wait for allies to try to take it.. and 5 shamen is VERY hard to dislodge from a tower usually end up with liek 3 mages aoeing me

[Nixi]

If i successfully defend a tower by the time they kill our general will we still get honor? I hate losing over and over again to uber pre-mades. 0 honor sucks ass and the allies make sure it happens to us way more often than i would like.

Normally I try to kill Belinda, and if I fail i'll try to take one of their towers. But they always end up with like 10+ guys coming in to kill me.

[Dominian]

tbh,
So far I fail in PvP on the box,
I've only played 3 av's so far,
but I always ended up getting 15+hordes on me.
I'm rushing to much aswell, ending up in the middle of the enemy group isn't going to help me much.
I guess I'm still to used to being the 300+ resi warrior with a friendly healer covering health.

I've created my arena team,
but haven't started a single match due to my poor PvP performance.
I guess I'll get that started this weekend,
I've read a nice suggestion of getting drunk till you stopped caring about loosing

Why do you try to take 15 players alone? Why not camp a gy and use the GY guards to your advantage. At FW gy hide behinde the tree and your still in range to nuke players by the flag! Pretty fun since they are no way expecting it and they are dead before they can find you.