Tonight I ran through Arathi Basin a few times with my mage, Aynaka. She’s at level 47 which is a good level for massive amount of Alliance killing. I went in with my buddies Fornjot, a 48 priest, and Dizcordia, a 49 mage. We were all on Ventrilo talking to each other for extra fun with coordination.
We ran through two times. The first time, we played it like you’re supposed to. There are 5 nodes in AB. Every few seconds, your team gets points for the nodes they control. To win, you need to control 3 of the 5 nodes for the duration. The usual strategy is to take three right at the start and leave people to defend each node. Just hold. It works, but it’s not all that exciting.
Our first time in we played it the right way. I ended up hanging out at the lumber mill node for most of the battle and getting a measly 14 kills in. It wasn’t very thrilling. There was very little actual combat going on where I was out. So we all agreed the second time that we’d just have fun. So the three of us grouped up and just went crazy. First, we took lumber mill. There was a good number of Alliance there. We had a little battle but managed to take everyone out. Then, instead of staying there like good like soldiers, we mounted up and stormed the Stables. This is not what you are supposed to be doing. The Stables is the closest node to the Alliance start location. If you assault it, they’ll keep coming and coming until they get it back. Well, we didn’t care. We wanted to KILL. We wanted to have FUN! So we assaulted it and held it. We held off waves and waves of allies. We held and until we noticed that we were losing. So, even though we had that node, we abandoned it and took the Mine. Which we took and then left for the Farm. We just jumped around and took nodes as needed. And we came back from a 200 point deficit to pull ahead and win. And we got an insane number of honor kills in the process.
A lot of the time I go into Arathi Basin I just don’t have fun. It’s too much like a job. You have to do this, you must stand here. I want to run around and reign destruction on my enemies. This was fun. We didn’t care about “shoulds” and played it like it was a game. Which, hey, it is!
2 Responses to “Fun in Arathi Basin”
I help you run through ZF to get your prcious cane, and then you all bail on me to go run through the BGs. Fine. I don’t have an alt at the right level, so it’s cool, and Im too low to even compete in 50-59. You all have a good time, and kick some Alliance butt for me. And then I see this. This is just being mean, you don’t have to brag about how awesome AB is. Do you eat candy in front of diabetics too? I miss the BGs so much…
Haha. Sorry Drew! I love my new staff, it’s pretty and bright. But come on, you can get back in the BGs. You’re what, 53? No problem! You’re a shaman, you’ve got FROST SHOCK! And don’t forget your TOTEMS TOTEMS TOTEMS!
(If you don’t know what I’m talking about you must watch this movie: Switch)