Kevin
New Member
So as I've seen everyone and their brother and their cousin's alts hitting 85, I was thinking that conquest points are out there for the taking. Seriously people! We need to start melting faces as a guild! There's honor to be had!
The other night when I was offering to go PVP with people, I got a shocking reply: "I don't have the gear to do battlegrounds."
This is not the way to think about it!
There is no penalty to your group if you queue up in PVE gear for a nonrated battleground. Non-rated battlegrounds are like normal instances, everyone can run them! There's no minimum gear required, you just need to be able to point your damage abilities at the nearest horde and pull the trigger! (or even better, heal every alliance member in sight)
I've been putting out plenty of invites out to guildies to come PVP with me, and so far I've been turned down. So before I let you all go around killing bosses, I'm going to list some of the reasons that I've become a PVPer and kill horde instead.
1) There's no set raid time - you can do a quick 20 minute battleground any time of the day or night!
2) You're guaranteed to get SOME honor...and honor means gear! Even if you lose, you get honor for trying, and every honor kill you get...and eventually you can buy that shiney new cloak! If you spend a night wiping on a raid boss, you get a huge repair bill, and NO GEAR!
3) It's a smaller set of time chunks to set aside. You don't have to settle in for a 2 hour raid, I got conquest capped for the week in about 45 minutes!
4) It's always changing! You never fight the exact same group in the exact same way twice. The BGs may be similar, but there are always new horde to kill!
So seriously, you all need to get on the horde killing bandwagon! There are purples to be had!
***this is not to say that we don't need raiders...this is me saying we have a number of quality raid groups in the making, and nobody seems to be PVPing. =) ***
The other night when I was offering to go PVP with people, I got a shocking reply: "I don't have the gear to do battlegrounds."
This is not the way to think about it!
There is no penalty to your group if you queue up in PVE gear for a nonrated battleground. Non-rated battlegrounds are like normal instances, everyone can run them! There's no minimum gear required, you just need to be able to point your damage abilities at the nearest horde and pull the trigger! (or even better, heal every alliance member in sight)
I've been putting out plenty of invites out to guildies to come PVP with me, and so far I've been turned down. So before I let you all go around killing bosses, I'm going to list some of the reasons that I've become a PVPer and kill horde instead.
1) There's no set raid time - you can do a quick 20 minute battleground any time of the day or night!
2) You're guaranteed to get SOME honor...and honor means gear! Even if you lose, you get honor for trying, and every honor kill you get...and eventually you can buy that shiney new cloak! If you spend a night wiping on a raid boss, you get a huge repair bill, and NO GEAR!
3) It's a smaller set of time chunks to set aside. You don't have to settle in for a 2 hour raid, I got conquest capped for the week in about 45 minutes!
4) It's always changing! You never fight the exact same group in the exact same way twice. The BGs may be similar, but there are always new horde to kill!
So seriously, you all need to get on the horde killing bandwagon! There are purples to be had!
***this is not to say that we don't need raiders...this is me saying we have a number of quality raid groups in the making, and nobody seems to be PVPing. =) ***