Secrets of Shadowbolting

One of my friends who knows and completely understand my warcraft addiction sent me a link today. I giggled at part of it but the paragraph about the battlegrounds totally resonated enough that I feel compelled to post it here.

“Just this week I’ve been fighting in battlegrounds — special areas where armies clash and 12-year-olds question each other’s sexuality — over and over just for a chance to win a tiny little flying dragon. This dragon doesn’t fight on my behalf or give me powers or anything. He just follows me around. In real life I try to avoid being tailed by parasitic flying creatures, but in the game I seek it out, even though I hate battlegrounds.

And really, what does my little dragon tell the other people in the game? The same thing it tells you — I spent too much time playing Warcraft. “

Read the whole article here

Oh yeah. That’s me. An addict. Though in all fairness, I did get my little dragon guy after only 1 battleground. I did not spend time grinding just for the pet.

We’re finding that some days people like to have a social life and not play WoW. While this is good for them, it limits what I can do as less people are on (yes I do take days off myself on occasion). Anyway, while waiting for people to sign on so we could have a group to run things, I jump into some BGs. It’s been a while since I have been there and there’s rumors of cool pets and “eh” tabards being available. Not one to miss out on a cool pet, we go running for an Eye of the Storm with one of our hunter guildies. First time in, we win, we get tabard and chinese dragon guy. Super cool.

He looks even better in blue. Anyway, after we get him we decide to continue running some Bgs. Since I’m amassing a small group (we are 3) when we get into AV, I’m the battleground leader. Now I take things like this seriously. I want to win, if I’m designated leader, I’m going to open my mouth and do something about it.

AV starts, all is well, I start directing traffic – get Galv, cap towers, group up, go get RH, we cant wait for RH to cap (30 seconds) X and Y are the tanks – keep them up and lets go.

We win. Very nice. Try it again – Vuur’s not the leader – disorganized chaos, we lose.
Off to an AB so we don’t ruin our luck. Vuur’s BG leader again. I personally think AB is one of the easiest to win. Its all about staying 1 step ahead of the other team. You take my stables? I’ll take your farm. You send 3 people after my BS, I’ll defend until you come back with a real threat. LM is getting overwhelmed? Find out where they are not. GM? ok lets take that. AB is fluid, you dont have to hold something the entire time, in fact, its pretty hard to just camp 3 places and defend. People don’t like standing still, they get restless and impatient so we play a style that caters to that and still is successful.

On an unrelated note, I had my mage and my lock on at the same time for mana biscuits…They do look pretty similar…