Battleground stories

[JustAGuy]

Both are very fun and each are very different from one another.  The Warsong Gulch capture-the-flag battleground is fast paced and intense.  Matches last anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and half depending on how evenly matched and well coordinated the opposing sides are.  Matches are 10-on-10, so every player matters, and it's important that everyone knows what to do and where to go.  There's no relaxing even for a minute in these matches.

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I just played my first game of BG today, and I have to completely agree with your statement. I made a couple of noob mistakes, as in, killing when I was protecting, and protecting when I was supposed to be killing, or wasting my stun -- but all-in-all, it was good fun. That said, we lost.

So, here's the game story:

This game was very close. 3-2 for the Horde. The difference was their priest. We had a disorganized alliance side: only two pallies, and a bunch of hunters, rogues, and mages. I was the offense pally, and I did pretty well for my first time out. I was responsible for protecting the flag carriers, buffing and debuffing as required, firing off needed heals and what-not, and getting those kills in mid-field. They had a priest, and every time, he killed my mage partner before I could get to him, either because he had a warrior and rogue protecting him, or he healed himself before I could finish him. That mind control is a real pain too, I tells ya.

There were two crucial moments in this game. One where we had the flag with the score 1-1, entering our base no less, and the horde was tailing us. Our flag carrier was a rogue, taking a good beating on his back. I was casting a heal, I was ALMOST finished, when the other Paladin cast "Blessing of Protection" on the flag carrier. Well, no one knew that this would cause the flag carrier to drop the flag. Of course, the horde snatched it right away, and we lost our opportunity to clinch the game. They scored shortly after that because our team was a bit scattered and the other Paladin was creamed shortly after his protection cast. They basically had an easy walk to the flag.

The second crucial moment in the game was when both flags were out and it was 2-2. I had instructed our mage flag carrier to hide in the corner (I found a sweet-spot for hiding, which we used earlier to get a safe score). It was a few minutes before we finally found and killed their flag carrier, at which point the mage was given the "all-clear" to score the flag. She runs out, with me right behind her, heading toward our cash-in point. Little did we know, there was that priest again, in our hallway with his rogue and warrior buddies. Of course, my mage was killed promptly despite my best effort to take that priest out, with a rogue and warrior beating me unmercifully. No surprise, though, I survived the encounter... A lot of good it does me to survive when they can get the flag back so easily.

Despite our frustrating loss (our team was very disorganized, despite getting our act together later with a newly designated team leader) it was still a lot of fun. Being a 48 Paladin in a 41-50 instance, I was surprisingly able kill at will. I was no where near as powerful as my mage friend, but that's the trade-off now isn't it? I was practically unkillable. In an instance that took a good hour and a half, I died a total of nine-times -- two of those kills I just gave away because I knew the situation was hopeless (at the end, they were cashing the final flag, and I was heavily outnumbered, and in mid-field, with my divine shield/noob button cooling down).

So, that's my story. I had a lot of fun. Every man is important. I knew we had two weak links, and I could only spot one for the horde side. And then there was that damn priest... That damn priest...