Ways To Be Sneaky In PvP Battlegrounds

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As someone with largely non-sneaking toons on World of Warcraft, my experiences in the PvP Battlegrounds vying for a few “easy epics” have included a lot of seeking and searching out ways to be sneaky without any sneakin’ skills.

Sneakily Dealing Ranged Damage

The first thing I’d like to say about this whole thing is that the World of Warcraft is a magical, mystical place where some physical structures that appear to be in place really aren’t there, in a way.

What way?

Well, in the way that sometimes there are hills and trees and even parts of buildings that obscure vision for a player but do not effect line of sight for someone mounting an attack on the player who cannot see them.

These are the greatest spots in the world, to me, when I PvP. I love to seek those spots out and get myself to them (especially in confusing times) and then see how long it takes for someone to figure out I’m there and do something about me.

And of course, if one can Range DPS from that spot and be successful, one can Heal from that spot as well and be equally successful!

Where I’ve Found Great Spots

If you read my blog very often, you see that I cover a wide variety of angles of the game of World of Warcraft. I get into a whole bunch of different things during my play time, because I’m curious and I enjoy the variety of entertainment that Blizzard offers.

So, it won’t be a surprise to you to know that when I do battlegrounds, I do ‘em all. To the point of queuing myself for 3 battlegrounds at once, and leaving one battleground for another’s start-up call if the first one is going too painfully badly (like a WSG where everyone is fighting mid and nobody is running the flag…).

So, I’ve found some great spots in pretty much all of the Battleground instances, possibly save Warsong Gulch itself since I put myself on Flag-runner support duty most times and that involves a large degree of “out in the open” practice of self-defense.

Favorite Battleground For Sneaky Ranged Action

My favorite Battleground on my Mage and Priest who have a slow-fall ability of some sort, is Arathi Basin, because part of my sneak attacks and sneak heals can come in the form of jumping down from the Lumber Mill to the Blacksmith, or from the road down to the Gold Mine flag, which is an assault type that I don’t see being used commonly when I play.

But Eye of the Storm has some great spots too - near the flag and near all of the tower bases. Although it’s EOTS where I’ve had fine success standing out in the open healing, and the Alliance folk didn’t do a single thing about me!

Should I Make How To Be Sneaky PvP Videos?

I have taken footage of my Priest and my Mage doing battlegrounds while I did some Honor Grinding for gear, but haven’t done much with it. Anyone interested in me turning some of the footage into videos similar to the rest of the Raid-type videos I’ve posted?

Would you share your sneaky heal and range spots with me in your own video clips? :)

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Raiding Blackwing Lair?

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on July 22, 2008
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So, over a week ago I was on my 69 Priest and am just short of my monetary goals for hitting 70 with, so since I had a full level to go through yet and that’ll take a few dungeon runs, I opened up /lfm and poked through the three instances I’d like to go into:

Auchindoun - Shadow Labyrinths
Hellfire Citadel - Shattered Halls
Coilfang Reserve - Steam Vaults

There’s no partial-groups listed, unfortunately… just a handful of DPS and at least one other healer listed.

So, I go to the Looking for Group tab at the bottom, and fill in my 3 dungeon choices as above, then put in a comment: “healer, whisper first, please have a tank already :)”

Yes, this is optimistic, but as Momma said, and someone said to her… “If it ain’t worth askin’ for it ain’t worth gettin’!”… so, continuing on…

This, of course, subscribes me to the LookingForGroup channel, which is readily active this evening as people are looking to fill out final spots in their Karazhan raids and daily Heroic parties and RFK runs… but nothing really in my range.

Until someone advertises that they’re looking for healers for a raid on Blackwing Lair.

Hmm.

Never been there. And beyond “somewhere near Lower Blackrock Spire”, I don’t even know where it is!

So, I whisper the guy, and after a bit of a confusing conversation about whether or not there was an Attunement process required for entering the instance (there isn’t), I’m extended an invite and I make my way through to Undercity, and then hop on the Bat to fly to Kargath in the Badlands.

There are a few others of us who are added around the same time, and we all start to make our way to the instance. There are no Warlocks in the group to leech off of, and the Summoning Stone doesn’t summon people so close to, or at, level 70, so nobody said a boo, just made their way there.

I arrived at the door to Lower Blackrock Spire, and was told to go in and wait for an escort who would be coming through. A Rogue soon joins me and we await the escort.

I started recording video just outside the portal to Lower Blackrock Spire, and was pleased that the recording process didn’t cut out as it sometimes chooses to do… and I actually was able to record the entire route through the dungeon and to the portal for entering Blackwing Lair.

Old World 40-man Raid Instance in Blackrock Spire

There was some chaos in the video, of course… this raid had been formed 2 hours earlier and we had to deal with respawns as our escort brought us through to the primary group… but I think if I needed to, I could use the footage to find the instance door again.

I might also publish it for the heck of it… bored people want anything for entertainment, right? ;)

Unfortunately, as is regular in PUGs attempting old-world content, there weren’t enough people to make an actual attempt by the time we got there - the 2 hours of the raid already existing before I got there, and attempts done when the new-joiners (including 2 healers) weren’t yet around to raid heal… wore enough people out that folks dropped out before I got there.

Darnit, I was kind of looking forward to seeing more than the first room, but I now at least know the route through Lower Blackrock Spire to get to the instance portal for Blackwing Lair…

More near-useless knowledge on the level of knowing all the words to the story of “Little Bunny Foo-Foo”.

And speaking of which, in that Rhyme where you came from, did Bunny Foo Foo “bop” the field mice on the head, or was it something different for you?

And, was it little RABBIT Foo Foo where you came from?

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Life In A Quiet Guild - New Tabard!

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After I finished my two-and-a-half month stint in a raiding guild that was taking on 25 man content, I created a guild of my own, and named it Silence is Golden.

Initially, there were some strangers in the guild, but I paid them off well and thanked them for their charter-signing services, and sent them on their way.

Then, I set up the Guild Bank and bought two tabs, and started putting things in there that my various Outland toons would share - potions, elixirs, gems and the likes.

When I invited my father into the guild, I re-arranged the bank tabs a bit and put the things I wanted to share with MY toons in tab two, and things that would be more beneficial for my father’s characters, who are still in Azeroth, in tab one.

Since the guild only had Dad and I in it, I set it up so that our characters could take repairs from the guild bank instead of our own funds, and I started using the Guild Bank as my Money Storage Device, very much liking the log tracking feature that comes along with official Guild Banks as compared to a “Bank Toon”.

Designing The Guild Tabard

The Guild Tabard, of course, is the very best part of being in a non-raiding guild.

Of course!

I mean, when you see guilds advertising in Trade about their non-raiding guilds, trying to get new members, what are the two things they mention? First and foremost, that they have a Tabard, and then that they have a Guild Bank.

My initial tabard for the guild reflected a general resentment towards the sheer volume of JUNK I had been expected to endure on the guild line before making my own quiet spot where Silence was the word… you can see that tabard in my Gruul’s Lair videos while taking on either High King Maulgar or Gruul the Dragonkiller himself.

That tabard is, well, like it’s getting ready to bite someone with big teeth.

I’ve since relaxed into the quietness of my own guild, so a two weeks ago I re-designed the Guild Tabard to something that is more reflective of my father and myself. It\'s the closest to a Canadian Flag that I could make

I’ve had some compliments on the Tabard in the battlegrounds even! Kind of funny.

I’m thinking of changing the music my videos tend to end with, to encorporate the Canadian theme a wee bit. Right now I can only think of beer commercials:

“I am, you know I am… I am Canadian…”

And of course, the big poem about being Canadian but not saying “aboot” and not living in igloos etc…

Any suggestions for me? :)

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