Sunwell staging area pvp
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Hey everyone, Jason here, blogger #2 for killing AF I guess. My toon is Hungryfreak and I recently went to the Sunwell staging area for the first time.
I don’t intend to instance or raid – I only play an hour or two a week now – just wanted to check out the environment and stuff. Once I saw the crazy Alliance gank squads in action I went seraching on Youtube and found this:
As for my experience, I was buffing up right outside the quest area amidst all the guards when a priest starts attacking me with shadowword pain and the like. Now I have 380 resilience (though I was carrying Gorehowl instead of my pvp sword so it would have been a little lower and 10,000 health so there was no real danger and the priest gave up. I would have gone out to meet him but he had a hunter friend waiting for me to do just that.
A few minutes later I was doing some of the Sunwell quests when I saw an AF rogue try to gank a Horde hunter. I enter the melee and the hunter dies and the rogue vanishes at about 10%. The hunter is a prick and whispers me why I didn’t heal him “Can I get a heal, jeez”. Because I’m not a healer douche. Why didn’t you trap him or wing clip him or something?
By the way, I am not one of those retnewbs that never heals. In a BG I like to be in the middle on the damage and healing charts – I heal until the AF attack me and then I mess them up. It’s just that in this case the hunter was getting whipped and my heals are fairly weak (no +healing) and I felt like cleaving the Gnome rogue’s face a bit.
Anyway, later I see the same rogue sitting over by the guards eating. I run over there and kill him before the guards get me. I whisper the hunter to let him know.
A few minutes later that same rogue and 2 friends (hunter, priest) are running around ganking individual hordies. I try to save one warrior but we both end up dead – we’re just outnumbered and not coordinated. He whispers “All you had to do was blessing of protection me”. Maybe but it’s too late to find out now.
I see on the local defense channel that there’s a 4 man gank squad on the road so that hordies can’t pass to turn in quests or whatever they do over there.
BY the time I gave up there were about 30 AF and 5 horde guys. Thought maybe it was a raid but there were several different Alliance guilds so I kind of doubt it. I just wonder if it’s fun to always have the advantage since AF only want to play when they outnumber Horde…
So in one hour I died twice (once the guards killed me and once the 3 man gank squad), completed 2 daily quests, killed a couple AF (that rogue and I ganked one or two others when I was able to catch them alone) and found 2 green 68 items. It was fairly fun but would have been better if the pvp action was a bit closer to even numbers on both horde and alliance.