I’ve been trying to avoid Wrath post for several reasons. I’m not in Beta (/sob), I don’t like to post other bloggers information or just the fact that everyone is doing a wonderful job already doing it.
So here’s a little Pvp for you!
This weekend was the start of the Spirit of competition (along with the Olympics) event. The call to arms for all servers, to ….compete…. in battlegrounds for some unique loot. I don’t know about other battlegoups, but Vindication EXPLODED with Pvp, seriously.
Friday evening I logged in around 22h (read:23h server time), just to do some turn-ins in Stormwind, and check my AH for Raid consumables. I had a couple of hours free time on my hands, and since I enjoy Pvp, I went to check the Bg’s (apparently like the entire world of warcraft), normally this is just wasted time for me, because at that “god-forsaken” hour, there’s no one in battlegrounds, I can sit in queue for hours….
WHAT……You’re queued for Arathi Basin 176!!!!!!!!
/Faint
A couple minutes queued, landed on Arathi Basin, scored honor like crazy (since there’s so much action). You see, I love squichable opponents, I absolutely adore them. If I see a priest/mage/warlock I just go ballistic and will, literally, not stop until their under my feet! Of course meeting a unaware priest and a Pvp conscious one are two very different things (I just love the “Charge-Berserker stance-Berserker Rage” dance, see the resist psychic scream, and look at them run!).
But priest (or any class) are not usually alone (not if they’re smart, at least) so it’s normally a 1v2 or 1v3 fight, at least until someone from our side decides (or is able) to help out!
I assaulted Lumber mill, and got saped at the very last second before the base cap! My immediate thought, was: “Sh**! Rogues!!!” I get out of sap (waiting for another one) but managed to bloodrage and demo shout him out of stealth, switch to protection and disarm, switch to berserker and start pounding is little blood-elf head to the ground, when….. kidney-shot! BLAST!!!
ok,ok… he’s a 3%, trinket out and finish it! kidney-shoted! WHAT!!!! Another rogue is having a go at me, turn and hamstring, intercept, the almost out of range but not quite, first target. 1%, my eyes are already turning to the slowed second rogue.
Wait, what…15%….55%…I scan to the flag, and a priest is there happily healing my rogue!
Now, I´m really really pis**d, I got myself regrowth-ed by someone … oh ya, here squishie, squishie!!!!, I keep on the rogues, demo-shouting again, building up rage, waiting for the intercept cooldown. No one seems to notice my druid friend healing me, so it’s warrior heaven.
Target:priest!
/cast Intercept
/smash
The Berserker-rage prevented me from getting feared, the rogues are now both at my back doing their thing, the druid is keeping me alive long enough for me to have the priest worried about himself and not the rogues, so I activate retaliation and hope the rogues get themselves killed without me needing to help out!
One of them, keeps hitting me, the other, runs to the druid to end my strife for life, I finally get the priest (pummel at the last flash heal), and now turn to a 10% health rogue (thank you very much Mr.rogue), heroic strike lucky critical, dead rogue, target, intercept, protection, disarm, berserker, hamstring and a little cat help, we get the last rogue.
Move to the Flag! I know they are coming again, we took too much time. And so they did! They left us like a piece of crumble pie! The druid ran for it (to get distance to heal me I think, but he was very low on mana) I died, ressed, and here we go again…..
The true Ace up my sleeve on the previous fight, was of course both the druid and the Retaliation Buff, that thing is amazing! 30min shared cooldown, isn’t! (heard that could change).
In normal Pve, I dont use that much of an array of abilities, so Pvp is a real Finger exercise for me. I mean, how can a murlock need the use of berserker rage, Retaliation or even pummel? If I don’t kill it now, I’ll kill it on the next swing.
I know that for instances and raids I’m supost (and usually are) to be at the top of my game, regardless of level, spec, ability or finger crampes!
Well, anyway, we won Arathi. I scored me 3 mark, and (more important) I had fun! lot’s of it!
oh, and that priest, I bet he still has my boot size engraved in his face ^^
