Low-Level Battlegrounds
Published February 10th, 2006 in WoWAm I the only one that finds it almost mind-numbing to go into a Battleground (WSG is a lot worse then AB it seems, maybe less Tauren Shaman-rape prone… slightly) and just see an ass-load of max-level Shamans and Rogues, all twinked to shit. It has to be the power-progression at that level so favors the Horde, especially pre-30 with Shamans getting Ghost Wolf so God damn early (War Stomp doesn’t hurt either).
Yeah, I’m angry that (even though Zero and Skaald have helped me out a ton, so I’m sorta twinked myself) the under-40 BGs are five shades of retarded (I didn’t even touch 10-19 since I didn’t have Cat Form yet, but I’m sure that was bad) but more confused by why the hell people are playing them like that. I understand the alt thing at this point with WoW (although the survey that declared it the easiest game to hit the level cap was more a popularity contest then anything as none of those people had ever played pre-NGE SWG…), but with the lower-levels being so obviously imbalanced, and apparent “skill” gap between a person hopping into the WSG queue for a change of pace from leveling and a twinked-out alt it just boggles the mind. It’s like sticking my old inimicaL team against a bunch of random people on like Kharkov or shit, Tobruk (”WTF happened to the M10!?!” *giggle*) (pardon the Battlfield 1942 reference). It’s not really fun for either side and it’s a slaughter any way you look at it.
To be honest, I enjoy Arathi Basin, but not when it’s random people versus the Horde’s level 39 All-Stars, and if 40-49 is as stupid, It’s probably going to be a straight shot to the mid-50s where Zero and I have a date in Alterac Valley with a hammer (it’s for his Paladin, I’m more interested in the Revered staff for Caster-tasticness)…
Anyway, this was sort of a way to kill time as I waited for Kyo (since she said she’d be back post-midnightish, and well, it’s gonna be 7:30am her time so yeah… not gonna happen tonight I guess…) so yeah… sleep for the win.
Kinda funny that you say what you do about the Horde, Cal, since I am Horde on my server. While you complain about Shammys and Rogues being twinked, I complain about Pallys(Bubble for the gay!) and Hunters(Track Stealth = OMGWTFBBQ!) being so goddamned overpowered. But WSG is horrible, and don’t worry, aparently the Horde get stupid in the 40+ battlegrounds, except for AV.
Yeah, it really just is a style-difference between the Horde’s racials and the Alliance’s. It’s just a lot of our guys can’t get it that we can’t defend the flag room as Alliance (War Stomp + Earthbind Totem = no), but they still do.
But really the only other difference was that damn Ghost Wolf form, but that’s only a problem below-30.
It’s just one of those things that certain classes are gonna have different power curves (but I’m about to start doing AV in a bit so we’ll see…).