Quote Originally Posted by 'Maat',index.php?page=Thread&postID=43812#post4381 2
Nice massacre!

Got a couple of questions if you don't mind:

First, I'm pretty sure you gonna get this a lot: Please toss up a track list for music under the video if you got time :P
1st song: Timbaland - One More Time
2nd song: The Prodigy - Out of Space


Why are you taking IB GY? You get this for taking IB in our BG.

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http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/01/16...-in-patch-2-3/

This is the most accurate representation of the horde "all-defense" strategy employed by Stormstrike. It's to the point that alliance stopped queueing because they were guaranteed a loss for 0 bonus honor. We'd queue if there was a point to it, but it ends up being a 30-45 minute waste of time.

I know some of you will shout "biased wowinsider" but until you experience it, this is about accurate.

You'll notice in my videos most of the fights are a huge mass of horde guarding graveyards. This is an accurate representation of their strat. They send near 100% of their raid to ibgy and just turtle the chokepoint. If you try through to any other graveyards like frostwolf and the relief hut, you will be hunted down. If you try to rush galv or a tower, they move half of their ibgy defense to galv, who, by the way, is very easy to get wiped on.

As long as they can cap and defend stonehearth bunker, which is far enough outside the stonehearth choke to make it difficult to defend (along with the fact that horde can cap it before we can even reach it, thus making us have to assault our own bunker instead of defending it), then they win via reinforcements because of ONE tower. 40 of us versus 40 of them turtling at a choke point with them having a 1-tower reinforcement advantage.


Our strategy was to send a team of 5 stealthers (2 druids, 3 rogues) straight to the relief hut GY as soon as possible. We also send Suvega (priest + 4 mages) + a tank to galv while the rest of us rush ibgy. We give them snowfall GY so that they are forced not to turtle. After ibgy is capped and galv is down suvega moves back to defense along with about 5-10 others with the sole purpose of recapping bunkers and leaving them ONE graveyard. (Suvega is very good at motile mass aoe)

My job is to keep IBGY because there is likely 2 more large waves of horde defense trying to recap. I can turtle in a totem farm very easily, and with selfrez I can kick them off the flag for precious moments if I need to wait for reinforcements to arrive. Once both towers near ibgy burn, the offense pushes to fwgy. This is the hardest part, because horde will turtle fwgy as well. Usually the easiest way to cap is to get fwgy while the horde are trying to recap their towers, but that typically leaves ibgy less defended from attacks and we'll end up rezzing at stonehearth. If I have to, I'll leave ibgy and bring 5 fire elementals to fwgy (usually I do this only if our stealth team has succeeded in capping the relief hut, so that ibgy getting recapped is less of a concern). If we can get ibgy, fwgy, and relief hut the horde is forced to rez outside at snowfall gy and we turn their turtle upside down.


I see you are using Shaman Friend to broadcast what Grounding totem absorbs. Is there any benefit of turning it on on all characters? Rather seam spammy to me.
Every character has it because I swap group compositions and who's on what computer often. It helps to have it on the spare shaman for when I'm playing 1 pally / 4 shammy or 1 pally / 3 shammy /1 priest.

I saw you are using both grid and the xperl raid frames on one of your chars, whats the reasoning behind this? I find Grid way superior to any raidframes, it also makes decursive useless. It just needs a bit of configuration to get it sexy and neat.
TBH, I don't use grid. Suvega's trying to teach me, but I'm used to my normal raid frames. It's there so I can get used to using it... someday.