09-14-2006, 09:42 PM
Yeah I've been playing one of the defenders that goes to iceblood right away. Alliance wants to kill Galv and you can keep them from doing that or capping the GY pretty will with just 10. There was one game I was in where they never got IB and never even got in to see Drek. I still don't feel I'm all that great playing D, but an MC geared hunter can do a lot to mess up a charge. And since I have an L60 paladin I know that all you do is suck their mana then laugh at them or interrupt them when they cast and laugh at them (the bubble is a holy spell, stop a cast and you have 6 seconds where they can't bubble. Most pallies only have 5K mana in the BGs, even a hunter can suck 800 or so of that in that time they've been interrupted while dishing out a few K damage, that forces them to self heal or risk dying. Even if they clear the sting you took 95 or 120 of their mana depending on if they have the relic). A manaless paladin is the most harmless thing on the battle ground. Wands from manaless casters are more dangerous.
But yeah the AV's where we play D we horde wins. And I do agree that even after you lose iceblood that going straight back to defend Drek isn't the best. You can't defend anything else really but all you want to do is slow them down, and you'll end up pinned at the aid station soon enough but still slowing them down. We lost Iceblood and still kept them off Drekk for another 8 to 10 minutes which was plenty of time to get those little bastard friends pulled away from Van.
The easiest way to get a PuG to play D is to just have a few people say they are going on D. You'll get a few others to follow and then you'll win if you are horde unless you are playing against a team. But a horde PuG that plays D seems to win and I've started taking in some of the AV bandages since I can often sneak off when I'm down to a few hundred HP and getting in a few more multishots or getting another trap down or even one sniped aimed shot before I eventually get killed can help a lot.
But yeah this thread helped. I'm still not the biggest fan of PvP, but at least I don't feel I'm a detriment to AV teams anymore from lack of knowledge. But you guys provided pretty much what I was looking for.
But yeah the AV's where we play D we horde wins. And I do agree that even after you lose iceblood that going straight back to defend Drek isn't the best. You can't defend anything else really but all you want to do is slow them down, and you'll end up pinned at the aid station soon enough but still slowing them down. We lost Iceblood and still kept them off Drekk for another 8 to 10 minutes which was plenty of time to get those little bastard friends pulled away from Van.
The easiest way to get a PuG to play D is to just have a few people say they are going on D. You'll get a few others to follow and then you'll win if you are horde unless you are playing against a team. But a horde PuG that plays D seems to win and I've started taking in some of the AV bandages since I can often sneak off when I'm down to a few hundred HP and getting in a few more multishots or getting another trap down or even one sniped aimed shot before I eventually get killed can help a lot.
But yeah this thread helped. I'm still not the biggest fan of PvP, but at least I don't feel I'm a detriment to AV teams anymore from lack of knowledge. But you guys provided pretty much what I was looking for.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.