BG Update

So after my enjoyable first foray into battle grounds on Tuesday, I did some more on Wednesday. This was after respeccing (okay, is it respecing or respeccing? or hyphenated?? we need some standardization here!) Falken to a 17/0/44 Shadowstep Subtlety build. I’ve used Shadowstep before for PvE (it’s pretty good for solo play; sucks for groups), but not since the change a couple patches ago, which extended the stealth and speed for 3 seconds.

Falken’s Armory profile is now in the right sidebar; here’s the talent build:

We did three AB runs Wednesday, two losses and a win on the final one. For the last two battles, incredibly, I topped the Alliance HK list!! I thought I was doing well: The crits were coming fast and furiously, and one was nearly 3K (on a clothie, no doubt, but I’m not going to be picky).

Last night (Thursday), we hit all the BGs: WSG twice (it was the BG Daily), EOTS once, AV once, and AB two or three times. We got slaughtered every.single.game. It wasn’t even close (well maybe one AB fight was for awhile). And I generally sucked. I don’t know what the problem was, but I sure wasn’t contributing as much as I would have like to the Alliance effort. I sure was spending plenty of time rezzing though.  And I couldn’t buy a crit last night — the only reason I was halfway effective at all was the number of times Cheat Death procced!

*sigh* I’ll echo what I read a lot: Alliance sucks in BGs. As we used to say in the Air Force, "All thrust and no vector." Almost zero strategy: In the 6 or 7 battles I fought, in only two were any initial directions given on what we should do: One AB fight (and I gave that direction!) and EOTS. Basically, it was "Group 1 – Take A; Group 2 – B; Group 3 – C." It’s a start. And in AB I’m starting to feel comfortable, so I spoke up more in those fights. But no one seems to listen.

The one thing I found really frustrating was that every time I engaged the horde, whether I was alone or there were two, three, or four Allies with me, we were outnumbered 2:1. I mean, in AB it seemed like an 8-Horde zerg every time I got close to a cap point. Now, that’s like 24 horde in a 15-man BG. W T F?? How the hell do they DO that??

Actually, I know how they do it. They’re organized. Even their PUGs are organized. (I think we faced a premade in EOTS and in one AB fight; otherwise, I think PUGs were the order of the day.) But really, it shouldn’t take much strategy in AB (or EOTS, I think): Take 3 points. Then defend.

They don’t really have 24 players, so if you leave a couple at each point you own, everyone else can respond to attacks at the other two, and we should still have superior numbers. If we don’t, that means they’re VERY thin at the other two points, so it should be easy for one group to grab one or both. So what am I missing??

Gah. I think BGs may be the death of me. Or something.

So anyway…I checked my gear. My shoulders didn’t have the Scryer inscription; fixed that quickly by putting the +10 Defense on ‘em (my crit is plenty high for now; other stats need work). Put a +8 Resilience gem in my gloves. Need to upgrade one dagger to +20 Agility (no way I can afford Mongoose yet – the AH totally sucked for making money this week); should be able to do that this weekend. 

Speaking of the weekend, which BG honor weekend is it?