Alterac Valley Primer

[Concillian]

1. There is always someone in AV yelling "don't loot the dogs!" The point being, the dogs in Drek's bastion will reset when looted.

From what I've seen and read, the dogs respawn on a timer, or when Drek is reset by pulling him outside the bastion. Looting them does not affect the respawn time.

2. The dogs are thought to drop epics more frequently than other NPCs.

Any observations about these issues? Is looting/resetting in AV different than anywhere else?

3. I constantly am advised to wait for the towers to cap before pulling warmasters from Drek's bastion. The point being, there will be two fewer warmasters to pull after the towers are capped.

I ignore this advice, and pull the warmasters as soon as we have cleared the nearest graveyard. Killing warmasters takes less time than waiting for towers to cap. Waiting for towers to cap gives defenders more time to regroup. Any thoughts on this point?

1) This reeks like "don't talke to the student's in the viewing room" or "don't talk to the bar patrons in BRD". Myth and legend. I haven't played alliance, but this is superstition with no factual basis.

2) see #1. Doesn't make any sense.

3) I agree with you as long as the group has capable tanking and healing, which is not always a given. I've been in at least 1 AV where the alliance had to deal with 6 warmasters (we downed 4 towers, they downed only 2 as we kept re-capping IB tower and Tower point). They were hopelessly stuck on the warmasters because they had no organization. I've seen more though where a warrior steps up and tanks, a healer heals and they down each warmaster in 30 seconds flat.