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Is Pvping supposed to be about winning.

Published June 19, 2011 World Of Warcraft 7 Comments
Tags: Achievements, bgs, Pvp

I met this random person a BG. Sorta. I don’t remember their name, but we were babysitting Lumbermill and I was sleeping at the foot of the node in boredom and got to talking about the state of Alliance on each others realms, and they mentioned that they had just recently changed to Alliance because they were

“Sick of horde…. they care more about K’b’s than tactics to win bgs”

I didn’t get to tell them ” Honey.. we are the same on this side too” because we got distracted by a hordie trying to cap the node.

I’ve been a big fan of playing to Win in Pvp, but that’s not all there is to Pvp in Bg’s anymore.

It’s about Hk’s it’s about K’B’s, it’s about Faction Rep, Guild Rep, getting achievements and sometimes its just about being a D*ck because it’s a Bg full of strangers.

Even I have conflicting motivations right now, I don’t really care about honor, I’ve been buying chanting mats for weeks so I’m not wasting my cap, and I am So close to my 100k kills –

Which means I should not be babysitting nodes. I should be chaining AV’s and dotting up everything, instead I end up baby sitting Lumbermill, I think I was born with this ‘must take responsibility’ gene. So when the person who capped it runs off, and my pleas of ” you cap it you keep it” is falling on deaf ears I still feel obligated to stay and guard. Cause we are playing to win first right?

But does anyone actually care if we win or lose anymore? When a loss means that you can still satisfy your need to top Hk’s, K’b’s or get, or get closer to what ever achievement your working on now.

The only thing winning does is give you more honor, so if most of the BG doesn’t give a crap about honor – why would they give a crap about winning.

And besides, isn’t it more fun to run a muck… doing what you want zerging bases

The simple motivation to want to win isn’t enough anymore. We are more ok with losing because we get closer to some other goal, when it could all be so simple, the single desire to win.

I have that objective sitting on my screen. I watch it ticking over. I’m not sure what will happen when I get it.

I want to wear the ” Of the Alliance” title, and then I shall faction change and wear
Of the horde just for the Irony that I got it killing horde. ( kind of kidding)

Freeze! I’m a frost mage – Here, have a iceblock.

Published February 2, 2011 World Of Warcraft Closed
Tags: bgs, frost mage, Pvp, rated

While doing some rated BG’s last night with our fightclub, and swapping to my newly minted 85 frost mage – who managed to rack up 1.4 resil – I realised I had replaced my dispelling machine ( priest) with a Freezing in place machine and in comparison to the other better geared pvpers who didn’t spend their time using 5 freezing abilities on cool down – I wasn’t doing as much damage.

Why is there no CC counter?

I froze ** players in place

I slowed ** players

I sheeped **

** got caught in my Frozen circle

Lots n Lots of Ice.

Frozen Circle

Frost Nova

My Pets freeze – that I can manually force

Cone of Cold,

Deep Freeze

I thought playing a mage I would be able to enjoy this hahah all I have to do is pew pew – but no I’m expected to decurse, and CC everything to the max – and only then after I have blinked away away from the bladestorming warrior can I take the time to spend 2.3 seconds casting a single target spell.

I swapped back to my Priest for a couple and ended up baby sitting nodes, and I learnt that yes you can mass dispel your team through 3 frost circles. It just takes a lot of mana – and they still don’t accomplish much because all it does is mass dispel that current block, and they get reblocked all over again – in theory I would have probably been more useful dpsing and tying up the mages, and leaving my team frozen till the circles despawned

My mage is my Herber/Alchemist who was leveled for the purpose of flash supplier for my raiding – and I just hadn’t gotten into her – probably my most lack luster leveling experience 1-80 ever. But lately I want to play my mage. Once I hit 82 I was herbing by flying to places I couldn’t get ports to, doing my circles, and making my gatherer map a pretty illustration of flowers. Then I queued a couple of times for dungeons – partly as a way to get gear – and just to see how I went. Then started going into BG’s – realizing I wasn’t doing too badly.

And then…

We did a Rated 15 last week, and they had 5 frost mages. 5 Frost circles that block bridges.

I wanted one

and thus I became motivated to get my mage to 85

Never fear, the priest has my heart, however in rated BG’s your class composition seems to have a massive affect with how you stack the raid, much like arena composition – and its all about locking people up.