You: Big and strong.
Me: Big but weak.
You: Fast and healthy
Me: Slow and sickly
I’ve got the WSG daily.
I’ve been hanging onto it for a few days now because I either haven’t had time, or have fallen in with the wrong crowd.
Last night about 1/2 a hour before logging off I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get it done.
I smell Rats
I join the queue and it pops practically immediately.
A bad sign I think to myself. More often than not, an immediate invite indicates rats leaving a sinking ship.
I was relatively happy to find that while the battle had already started, we were only one down with 22 minutes still on the clock.
I briefly wondered why someone would dump the BG so early, then I got down to business.
Which of you punched the holes in the side of the boat?
I guess I didn’t notice the water lapping against my ankles.
I raced to the enemy flag room to support our flag carrier. As I ran down the field I kept an eye on the map.
People rezzing at the GY and people midfield.
Surely someone would be racing to the flagroom too. Maybe those that were rezzing just had a failed attempt at the flag.
By the time I reached the flag room it was obvious I was on my own. My team mates had other priorities, giving honor kills to the Horde.
What’s a Resto Shammy to do?
So I did what any stupid, but self respecting FC healer would do under the circumstances.
I carried it myself.
At least I made it to midfield before I got jumped by 8 Horde, their pets and probably their grandmothers.
I rezzed… I headed to the FR… Surely I would have company this time?
No?
Wont make the same mistake twice, right?
So I did what any stupid, but self respecting FC healer would do under the circumstances.
I carried it myself.
This time I made it 1/2 way up the map before the Horde zeroed in on me. This time I got some support. Heals and DPS, a DK at least, as the guy slicing my back open disappeared in a puff of purple smoke.
I kept running, littering my path with totems, straight up the tunnel to…
TO CAP!
Holy Worg poo BatGnome!
I have never capped before, because you know, I am support, not FC material.
I run straight back out the door and head for that Horde flag once again. Surely my team mates are feeling inspired? Surely a real flag carrier will come with me…
No?
I must be thick!
So I did what any stupid, but self respecting FC healer would do under the circumstances.
I carried it myself.
Yep, again. This time I mixed it up and charged through their GY. I even made it most of the way up the field without attention. Of course that was probably because the Horde hit squad was taking our flag.
I didn’t get to cap again. We gave it a good hard crack in our flag room, but their 7 overwhelmed our 3.
It happens, no problems.
What was nice was that as soon as they capped again, someone else from our side grabbed the flag… Finally…. A little too late and unfortunately I was at the wrong end of the BG to get you healing support.
We lost, but I guess I should be thankful that some of you remembered how to play once this squishy Resto Shaman proved it could be done.
The thing I wonder is why it is that you let me, with my paltry 16k health lead the charge, when I saw 30k even 40k health pools?
I wonder why you all spent the first 5 minutes I was in the BG skirmishing in midfield without even feinting towards the FR, let alone making an attempt at it.
We were already losing, not capping wasn’t going to change that.
- Were you scared you might get chased?
- Were you scared you might get hit?
- Were you scared you might get lost on the way home?
- Were you scared you might fail?
- Were you scared you might win?
Come on folks. Honor kill achievements are all well and good, but they are a side effect of being a good player.
There are achievements for winning you know and they are kinda harder to get. I promise I will help you do quick runs and 3 caps in a row, if only you promise to win (or at the very least try)
Be a good player 1st and an achievement whore 2nd!
Pugnacious Priest mentioned Psuedo-Premades on Bloodlust. Of course I fear I might be one of the ones that pissed her off in the past… worse, I not only read blogs, but I write them! I wonder if she was that awesome flag carrying priest I was talking about a little while back…
Anyway I need to track those details down.
I want to win.
I want to play with winners.
I want to proudly compare my BG achievements against Fikkle rather than be the opposite side of his statistics.
What’s wrong with you?
Let’s pwn those child eating Horde and WIN!
Ohh and speaking of being pwned, remember tomorrow at 3pm Aussie Eastern Beero time, I will be pwning Fim and Nib on Twisted Nether.. come along, join in!
Gnomer and Out, Squidly and Stout!
http://gnomeaggedon.net/2009/11/27/what-is-wrong-with-you/
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
I very reluctantly take the flag in WSG. The last time I held it with the help of a druid for ages in our room waiting for our team to kill their flag carrier. Turns out I missed the very narrow window of opportunity (hey, it’s hard to read /bg chat when you’re under attack!) and eventually lost the flag and they capped.
I need more time before I pick it up again. Recovery time.
Ohh I know what you mean… but then… that is BG’s
I learnt early on, playing a mage.. life = death… less death = win
“I don’t want thing thing. Please, someone take this from me. Someone. Anyone? Can you hear me? I don’t want to die!”
Naah I’m not that shy (I’ve played a one-shotted mage).. but when someone had 3x the health you have to wonder why they are leaving it to a healer to run the flag
hey now! we don’t eat children. we only slightly gently nibble on them
healers often make the best flag carriers cause you can run and heal yourselves
earth shield on yourself, earthbind totems to leave your pursuers in a dust, riptide on every CD, Run Lola Run!
whenever my hubby and I do WSG, he’s usually a flag carrier with me on my hunter coming along as a support. him being a resto druid, he has a…. slight advantage over a resto shaman though (man, trees are annoying when you fight against them
) and all it takes is 2, maybe 3 people communicating and working together and while the rest of the lemmings are distracting the opposite faction? swooop!
As a Holy Pally I am a fairly fail flag carrier, I am just too easy too take down, heck in one of the games yesterday I got soloed by a destro warlock during their stun duration. cleanse ,cleanse, stun and 27k hp gone:( But if I am healing a flag carrier if its 2-3 people on him and ignoring me I can keep him up. If 2-3 go for me and ignore him then hopefuly I can last 10 seconds before I die and he gets away in the meantime.
Ohh yeah. I often find I become bait. It doesn’t take long for the Horde to realize I am pumping out heals, and we all know to:
“Take out the healer 1st”
This sometimes works in our favor when I’m healing the FC. As long as I can squeeze out one last Earth Shield and Riptide I can be reasonably confident our FC will make it to the flag room.
Why… Because I am a more attractive target… Silly silly Horde, I don’t have the flag, the guy that is about to cap does…
Of course when I die, I Rez right near our FC (assuming he hasn’t capped already), so I just got “ported” up the field to meet the FC and keep him up.
I dunno, but I think a healy/tank combo would be darned near impossible to stop in WSG if anyone bothered to try it.
(or heck a solo, geared tree is damned near unstoppable all by it’s self)
Then I read things in trade like “are tanks any good for BGs” and I read “only for Alterac Valley” and I have to cringe.
The few times I run Bs, I play my Retribution spec, but equip my tank gear. A retpal turtled inside defense and stamina specced gear takes a while to die… I just wish I could have divine protection AND carry the flag
[...] What is Wrong with You? [...]