Today was bad – Goldsong was in 4 losing WSG matches. Still haven’t completed my daily.

In the 60-69 bracket, Horde seems pretty dumb. I am almost always on defense in our flagroom because everyone else wants to go on offense. My basic plan is to judge justice on their FC and follow them so it stays fresh. Sometimes this works perfectly and the hordies who can actually dish out some damage mess the Alliance FC up so we return the flag.

Other times I get crowd controlled – seems like they often have way more on offense than we have on d. You’d think we could do something on offense when they commit 4 or more guys to offense, but in 3 games we lost 3-0. In the other one it was 3-2.

I did end up with the AF flag once. I was heading back to our base when they grabbed our flag. No one told me which way they were taking it so I just went straight up our ramp hoping ours would get returned soon. Instead I run into their FC and like 6 other guys. I make it into our FR and start heading out toward our GY but they killed me and got away with our flag because there were too many of them. I wish I knew where the Hordies were…

I do keep some extra gear pieces with int and +healing on them for BGs, but basically I am a typical prot pally. Anyway, I just won an AB and topped the healing charts for Horde and it was great fun.

I enjoyed laughing at the Alliance as I healed up my teammates (mostly a 69 warrior although a few other hordies got tossed heals once or twice as well) and then realized I could keep laughing when the hunters and rogues eventually came after me. Pushing 9,000 health self buffed with all kinds of armor meant that even after their 69 rogue had me stunlocked for a good 15-20 seconds I was only down to about 5,000.

I have to figure out what to do with this toon when I hit 70. My 4 real life friends need me to tank, but I might respec holy for pvp. Then again if BGs as prot are this entertaining, why switch? I wonder how different things would be as holy (assuming I use the same pvp healing gear). Less health and better heals? No holy shield for rogues and warriors who don’t realize I’m wearing tank googles? Holy shock instead of avenger’s shield? I see where the extra healing would be needed in really competitive arena play, but for BGs?

Just a few ideas that Blizzard could do if they care about us World PVP fans:

Make honor kills in World PVP worth more honor than Honor kills in BGs.

Everyone knows that the only way to farm honor is to hit the BGs. Capture the flag is not half as cool as finding 3 Alliance in Tanaris fighting a scorpid and an air elemental (I was on Goldsong around 44, before the move to a PVE server) and killing all 3. Yeah they were at half health and poisoned or whatever, but still there were three of them and we were about the same level. It was amazingly fun but pretty much worthless in terms of honor. So instead of looking for more fun I go play more capture the flag to get more honor…

Have a real World PVP daily quest.

Standing in an empty tower for a few minutes is usually pretty boring. How about “Kill five players from the enemy faction in Terrokar” or something? Maybe they only count toward completing the quest if they are the same level as you or higher.

Have raid quests for enemy cities (with sweet quest rewards the first time and make them repeatable for honor and gold like a daily).

Have enemy leaders drop something meaningful.

What if a random person in the raid could come home with the Night Elf leader’s mount or something? Or an epic BOP? Or there was a chest with a buttload of gold in the boss’ room?

Have cool titles for players who have killed all the important enemy leaders.

Conqueror Goldsong or Conqueror Gnometosser sounds pretty lame anyway. And WTF is champoin of the Naaru? How about Champion of the Horde? That would be a sweet title.

Any more suggestions?

I’ve been doing some more BGs on Gnometosser, and I think maybe I need a new class for pvp. Hunters do great damage – at level 53-54 I was often in the top 10 in damage in AV and the top 3 in AB.

The problem is that I’m also pretty high on the death list too. It seems like once a rogue reaches me I’m stunned then dead. Or if a lock DOTs me up I die (though often I kill the lock before I do).

I think I prefer a toon with more defense in pvp – Goldsong for example is nothing special on the damage charts (though even prot spec I’m alwys in the top 5 on heals except in AV) but he is pretty good at surviving – my hunter feels kind of like a wuss.

I also like healing, Horde often loses battlegrounds I’m in because there are no healers. And while I used to think Alliance were all hunters and rogues they do always seem to have healers, unlike Horde.

I was thinking about a dreamstate druid – Balance for a bit of damage, Boomkin for armor, resto for the heals obviously. This toon should be very useful in BGs and large scale world pvp like city raids (never done one but that is my WOW goal – to get into some city raids). The big drawback would be no real protection from stunlock except that hopefully when the stun wore off I’d still be alive thanks to Boomkin armor (assuming I didn’t get caught in caster form – then I’d die faster than my hunter).

I hate stun and fear more than anything else in WoW. So Orc shammy or Undead priest are other healing possibilities. There’s just something about Boomkin…

And if you’re wondering why I don’t try a rogue since they do ridiculous damage, have crazy control, and have ludicrous defensive skills it’s because I am a keyboard mover so melee pvp = I fail.

I was on Goldsong – dinged 65 before the last boss. Then we had a 61 priest healing, a 64 elemental shammy, a 61 fire mage, and a 61 fury warrior. We got through with no wipes although I think everyone died at some point besides me.

I found it far more difficult to keep aggro here then I did in Ramparts. Even with salvation the fire mage pulled aggro several times and needed a few blessings of protection from me. One time he ice blocked. A couple times he died.

Also making things difficult was the pace – the other 4 guys were going too fast for me. The warrior would mark and then pull unless I was real fast. A couple times he pulled while I was drinking. It didn’t matter too much on the trash but still it made things tougher. On the bosses we went nice and slow.

One of the toughest parts was before the second boss where you get 5 or so waves of 3 each. We decided to do zero crowd control to be efficient and I didn’t know which direction the next group would come from. Plus I should have been further from the rest of the group then I was.

During that stretch they told me to use consecration earlier. One thing I need to do better is keep consecration and holy shield up while still judging as often as possible. When I feel rushed like I did with those waves I forget to press buttons sometimes… Of course they could have just held off on the dps slightly longer…

I also had trouble on that boss with aggro because he ran into everyone else first (the other guys were closer to him when he came out of his little room). Plus he was kind of floating so I got several “you are facing the wrong way” messages.

Nothing dropped for me, a couple of mail items and a healing trinket did. I wanted the healing trinket for my healing set but the mage said he needed it for his main set – it had like 20 spell damage…