Forum Post of the Day: A casual's guide to winning BGs
by Mike Schramm 
Dec 5th 2007 at 7:00PM
Our own Zach Yonzon is putting together some great guides to the battlegrounds (WSG is the last one, and Arathi Basin is being worked on as we speak), but just in case that's not enough for you, Digo of Hyjal has written up a great (and succinct) guide to how the premades win battlegrounds. From WSG to AB to EotS to AV, he's got a terrific writeup of what needs to be done and how to do it to walk away from the BG with more marks than the other team.He markets the guide as one for casuals, but it's got great tips for everybody: fight on the flags, not on the road. Make sure you've got something held before moving on. Send a druid after the flag and control WSG's midfield. Stick together and assist and heal. This is all stuff every single person who queues up for a BG should know (and unfortunately, it's also the same stuff that's yelled in every /bg channel because lots of players don't listen).
Great post, and a must read for anyone routinely going into the battlegrounds. If you aren't doing this stuff already, take the lesson, and do it from now on.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Tips, PvP, Forums, Battlegrounds
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
griffdog Dec 5th 2007 7:38PM
Digo's guild is named fyi.
They are the top alliance guild on Hyjal.
griffdog Dec 5th 2007 7:41PM
Bah! Can't Edit. Apparently you can't put brackets around words or they are filtered.
Digo's guild is called Casual.
Nick Dec 5th 2007 8:06PM
Indeed... I play Alliance on Hyjal as well
Merus Dec 5th 2007 9:16PM
The triangle brackets (< and > - I think that'll work) are used for formatting, and automatically get swallowed up because if they didn't, some clever clogs would exploit that to cause the page to redirect to their phishing page or something.
As Horde, there's an implicit understanding in AB that you hold the blacksmith and naturally farm. I've had plenty of games where we've taken the mine, I mean, how else are you going to 5-cap?
Mike Dec 5th 2007 10:22PM
For those of you with a bit more understanding of how the battlegrounds work I would recommend the following articles:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Arathi_Basin_Strategy_and_Tactics
http://wow.azzor.com/218/eppen's_warsong_strategy_guide.php
http://www.wowwiki.com/Alterac_Valley_Tactical_Overview
issei Dec 6th 2007 5:03AM
as mentioned above, this isn't a guide by a casual player, but the leader of Casual - http://www.casualguild.info
Chris Anthony Dec 6th 2007 9:37AM
issei - even so, Digo is explicitly writing for the "average pugger", so there's actually a confluence of guild name and intent.
Unnamed_land Dec 6th 2007 2:39PM
@4 That is one of my frustrations with Alliance, at least in whatever battleground Thorium Brotherhood is in, nine times out of ten, the entire group scatters into the four winds, going in groups of three or four to try to capture all the points at once. Now, I don't try to be the commander of this rabble, but I ensure to point out that in my experience, 100% of the time, the team that takes and holds the blacksmith wins.
WeirdoKitty Dec 17th 2007 2:33PM
I have a question about "Fight at the flags." What does that really mean? I understand that if everyone leave the flag so the enemy can take it, that's bad. But we have two nodes, the enemy has three, we have to take one to have a shot at winning. We can't just run by the enemy who are blocking the road. It takes about 1.7 seconds for the five there to kill me as I try to run past them to their flag. That's just an easy HK for them. If we group up, it's not any better to let them attack us as focus on running through. What to do?