Armaggedon's coming!

Ok this started off in my mind as a response to a few PvP/BG posts going around about how to win/not loose BG’s, and the primary message coming out was about communications.

So I am going to start this off today with a couple of tips, and finish up tomorrow on a mod that I find useful for knocking out BG warnings etc on the fly (for those times when you already have 9 fingers on the keyboard, and you only have one more to issue the warning).

I guess my fundamental thought is, if you are loosing, and not doing any communication yourself, then for all intents and purposes you are the reason the team is loosing… I know this is harsh, and a massive generalization, but if you communicate often and early, the risk of a loss is greatly diminished.

OK, some communication tips.

At the spawning point type in:

• /BG Hi, what’s the plan?

If you get no answer , whisper to the raid leader to give you the leadership, or at least raid assist.

Then, type out some simple instructions – anything.  Saying Zerg the Enemy base is better than saying nothing, but here’s some simple ones (You don’t have to macro them, just save them to a text file on your desktop to alt-tab and copy & paste into chat)

Arathi Basin:
If nothing else this 1st line will do.

• GRP1: LM, GRP2: GM, GRP3: BS. Last toon out the gate capture ST.

Other stuff worth stating in AB:

• Hold Flags until capped.  1 toon remains behind – the rest to next flag.
• Only fight at flags – avoid all other combat.
• Call incs early – backup will come.

Warsong Gulch.

• Grp1: You are flag carriers – get it!
• Grp2: You are defence group – keep it!
• Call FC position, ping minimap to guide team.

EoTS.

• Grp1: DR, Grp2: FRR, Grp3: MT & BeT
• Ignore flag – Flag is for noobs.
• Take 4 bases then hold Horde at spawn point.

Alterac valley.
Too involved for me to bother with… sorry

Note: you don’t have to be BG leader to issue the commands – it just helps as it is harder to miss/ignore commands in the middle of your screen.

Communication continued.
Don’t stop talking when the gates open.  Call incs etc… People will remain silent until they have a good example – YOU!  They will start watching chat, they will know it is valuable (not just QQ’ing), and they will call incs because they see it is effective.

Random tips:
All BG’s.

• Ping the minimap to get focus for the team.
• Kill all enemy healers, protect all friendly healers.
• If you can heal… HAEL!

WSG:

• If you are in a FG when you die, don’t release immediately.  Wait until you can see where the flag is going and call it out (you have less to worry about than those still alive).
• If you can’t stop the enemy flag carrier, at least harry or slow them down until help arrives – you did ping the minimap didn’t you?

AB:

• Mages – Cast featherfall, mount up and jump down to BS or GM.

AV:

• Take the mines.  In a battle of attrition you getting reinforcements when the enemy doesn’t = Win.

Gnomer and Out!