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Sami's Guide to the New Alterac Valley

Feb 18, 2008 15:26

Okay, so. As you may or may not be aware, semi-recent patches have drastically changed the way Alterac Valley works.

( This is how it goes now. )

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heinous_bitca February 18 2008, 15:12:02 UTC

Just an FYI, in case you didn't know, they're moving the horde starting cave back in 2.4. Not sure where it's going to be, but apparently it's to let us hit the same points at about the same time.

tevriel February 18 2008, 23:58:31 UTC

Yeah, I'd heard, but since several girls were going into AV and getting all confused now, I figured I'd post a guide to AV-as-is.

That's going to be an interesting change. I don't know if you PvP a lot, but I'm curious what the general Horde reaction to it is.

heinous_bitca February 19 2008, 14:01:26 UTC

I pvp'd a lot on Healah as she was leveling. I spent a lot of time in the 51-60 AV, and we won a fair amount. Lost a fair share too. I got a significant portion the marks I needed for my Black War Kodo in one day of AV - a Thursday when I stayed home from work. It was queuing us so quickly that I barely had time to get out of the war room to buy some pots before the queue would pop ( ... )

tevriel February 19 2008, 14:18:06 UTC

See, the thing is ( ... )

heinous_bitca February 19 2008, 14:35:26 UTC

Ah, but see, you can waltz right into our base. Even going through the front gate, you meet absolutely no resistance, except the occasional bowman. And if the front gate is defended, there's a nice wall you can hop over. You have a bridge that is a cockblock, because we can't get past it, especially with the bowmen hitting everyone on the bridge if they can make it halfway.

The road to SP is a chokepoint for you - I can't tell you how many times I've yelled at people and and see people in /bg yell at people to take the damned highroad, and yet, they stick to the road, and get slaughtered by Alliance who DO take the highroad to snipe from above.

This is the thread with a possible new map for AV (AFAIK, it's still not implemented on the PTR).

And I think we're going to have to agree to disagree if you really think that SPGY compares to FWGY. :)

tevriel February 19 2008, 15:51:14 UTC

Yeah, it's kind of my point that the Horde can win handily if they DO use the terrain properly. They just don't often. The fact that the road is a chokepoint because Horde don't use the terrain - you CAN take the high road, or go under the bridge and hit SPGY from behind, and it's not exactly the map's fault if you don't - isn't really our fault or Blizzard's ( ... )

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