Battlegrounds PvP gear

[_Savage_]

In alterac its a bit annoying until the game goes into the upwards zerg progression where horde pushes slowly into dun baldar. Until then its most convenient to wait at the little hill at iceblood gy (next to the flag) in case alliance dodges our raid and runs through. I can tell you that little hill gives nice visual cover and you are barely in range of the flag with 36 yard spells allowing you to reck 5 people before they even notice you're there. Also, from that hill you have a nice position to scout the alliance raid with farsight and progress from there. If they wait at stonehearth gy you may just push with you raid all the time, if they're not there you can expect them to push iceblood sooner or later.

At this point alterac works so well Im not bothering with the other BGs anymore as they just delay av queue pop. Unfortunately, burning crusade alterac will be a different story...but defending in dreks room is multibox friendly aswell (afaik you can IWT on drek to regroup).



Its no question that mages outdps shamans by alot especially arcane mages...mana isnt an issue in dungeons so you can spam arcane blast all the time and you double shamans damage single target and aoe. Its just that they wont do any good in arenas and Im quite certain that blizzard brought follow back to arenas after removing it, until warmode made a flat remove anyway but its nothing to worry in tbc.

Do you simply queue at the same time or select a specific AV to get all 5 into the same AV? What is the success rate/wait time respectively?

[valkry]

I'm rank 8 on my 5x warlocks from 400HKs a week in world pvp, just been steady steady over the weeks

[Kruschpakx4]

Do you simply queue at the same time or select a specific AV to get all 5 into the same AV? What is the success rate/wait time respectively?

You can queue alterac with a 5 man group, that was implemented some time after the the BG was released. On EU realms, horde wins 98% of alterac battles almost flawless, and just this alterac weekend that was 7k+bonus honor with 45 minute invite time (outside av weekend its like 1h15-1h30). I have a friend who grinded alterac exaltet on alliance in the past weeks and he got one victory from neutral to exaltet. Usually horde only loses to russian premades. I dont really know the exact reason for that as alliance never changes strategy and always loses the big fights but idc

[nodoze]

You can queue alterac with a 5 man group, that was implemented some time after the the BG was released. On EU realms, horde wins 98% of alterac battles almost flawless, and just this alterac weekend that was 7k+bonus honor with 45 minute invite time (outside av weekend its like 1h15-1h30). I have a friend who grinded alterac exaltet on alliance in the past weeks and he got one victory from neutral to exaltet. Usually horde only loses to russian premades. I dont really know the exact reason for that as alliance never changes strategy and always loses the big fights but idc

AV isn't fixed until TBC IIRC. In Classic Horde has both a significant starting position advantage and a significant grave yard advantage. That and overall Horde has better PVP racials.