How to Win at a Battleground in World of Warcraft

Many times players enter battleground after battleground, only to meet with abject failure. Players just sitting around doing nothing, often not following leaders’ orders, or completely ignoring orders and just going for kills…it’s a mess out there! No matter how much you yell and complain, no battle ever turns out the way it should. But there is hope on the horizon.

Step1

Don’t sweat it. It’s only a game. The Alliance/Horde WILL NOT crumble if this battle goes sour. Your equipment will remain relatively intact, you will still gain honor and get a commendation, and the world will continue to turn.

Step2

Don’t swear at people. While you’d think this is obvious, so many people do it when things don’t go their way. This is a surefire way to get the troops on your side demoralized, angry and, above all, in the perfect mood to ignore you.

Step3

Come up with a plan! Nothing irks experienced players more than a bunch of goofs who sit around with no plan. Think of what has and has not worked for you. Could you have done this better? What if you did this another way? Offer up suggestions! Most people are happy to have almost any plan instead of no plan at all.

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Step4

DON’T ZERG THE FLAG! In plain terms, this means “do not rush the flag.” While this applies particularly to Warsong Gulch, it also holds true for Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley. Running straight up to the flag/resource point and expecting to capture it straight off almost never works. It is a great way to start things off on a bad foot and put your team at an immediate disadvantage. The only way it does work is if your entire team commits to the assault and works together.

Step5

Move in teams. Going at it alone is one of the easiest ways to get yourself killed quickly. Ever wonder why the other team scores so many honorable kills? Take a look. 9 times out of 10 it’s because they move in teams, assault positions in groups and don’t act on their own.

Step6

Take and HOLD resources! In Arathi Basin, the idea is to capture and hold strategic resources in order to collect enough resources to give your side the advantage. Quite often, what you’ll see people do is run up to a resource (Blacksmith, Lumber Mill, Mine, Stable or Farm), begin to capture it and leave it. Do not do this! This leaves the resource that you may have just fought and bled for completely open for some enterprising enemy to take back unopposed!

Step7

Coordinate! One of the biggest handicaps a team can give itself is not to communicate. You have a great advantage real soldiers don’t: you can instantly talk to anyone else in your army. So why don’t you? Find out where they are. Do they need help? Do you need help? Talk to each other. This cannot be stressed enough! Communication is key!

Step8

Be a high level. The battlegrounds are divided by level: levels 10-19 in the first bracket, 20-29 in the next, 30-39, 40-49 and 50-60. A level 12 character will never fight in the same battle as a level 56. What this means is that the level 19, 29, 39, 49 and 60 characters rule the battlegrounds. Wait until you are at least level 17/27/37/47/57 to fight in a battleground (unless you really like getting creamed constantly).

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Essential Add On’s for World of Warcraft Role Playing Guilds

It has been a little while since my last article but I wanted to share with you my thoughts on essential
World of Warcraft add-ons for role playing guilds. My last article focused on essential add-ons for
normal WoW guilds. These add-ons still apply to role playing guilds.
However, there are a few more add-ons that a WoW guild that’s focused on roleplaying will need. In
my experience, these add-ons are the best and often found by role players to be essential to obtain the best role playing experience in World of Warcraft. The add-ons I speak of are Lore, ImmersionRP,
FlagRSP, Eloquence, and Outfitter. Normally I would include ephemeral on the list since it was the
best RP add-on for a time but it is no longer supported by WoW.

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Lore is an add-on for WoW that allows players to speak in languages not usually allowed by their race. So a humans can speak Darnassian and so forth. However just as WoW does not allow cross faction communication, neither does Lore. So the benefits for this add-on are only really for role-playing purposes with your own faction. Lore also will translate anyone speaking in another language of your Faction so it helps you understand know what someone else is saying. Finally, Lore has languages that don’t exist in Wow such as High Elven and Lore can be used to create customized languages. However Lore can only translate a custom language if it has the files for that language so anyone you speak to in your custom language will not understand it unless you give them the file for that language. This is great way for setting up a secret language among your guild members. It allows you to communicate secretly to someone in public without others understanding what is said. Whether the custom languages are cross faction supported or not is unknown.

FlagRSP is an add-on meant for role playing by offering the option of you to flag yourself in or out of
“role playing” character. Anyone that is using FlagRSP will be able to see you as flagged for role
playing. No more typing (roleplaying) before or after every sentence. Essentially, this add-on will other
s to recognize that you are role playing. Furthermore, the add-on always you to add character
information and basic information for any Roleplayer character sheet such as last name, title, and
description.

ImmersionRP is an add-on much like FlagRSP but it is made to also work with FlagRSP and all other
similar Addons such as MyRoleplay and will communicate on their data channels so long as you have
that addon for ImmersionRP to work in conjunction with.

Eloquence is basically your basic spellchecker. It checks spelling and grammar of what you say
before sending to any channel. It will automatically send the correct spelling and such to the channel to
make your speech and etiquette more eloquent. Because role playing in MMORPG is dependent on
typing, now your role playing won’t be harmed by bad spelling and grammar. Eloquence also has the
nice feature that allows you to alter your words to fit certain slang or accent that is more suitable for
your character’s race.

Outfitter isn’t really a role playing specific add-on but it is useful. What this add-on does is allow you
to instantly change outfits that you pre-designate. You can have any number of outfits with your armor
and other clothing to create and choose from. This allows you to change to a number of clothing from
formal wear to armor depending on the role playing occasion. This is good not only for role playing
purposes but also good for normal game play as it can let a tank switch from a tanking armor build to a
damage build on the fly.

So there you have it. Now you can go on and role play your favorite WoW character

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