EJ posters and cross server bgs

Nurru · 08/28/06, 11:52 AM

The other night I was screwing around in AV while WSG queues were broken (*again*) and ran into Probiscus. It got me wondering if anyone else has come across other posters from other servers or such.

That and it's Monday morning, any sort of discourse would help me wake up.

Taikero · 08/28/06, 12:02 PM

Considering I'll be moving to a server with Mal'Ganis in the cluster, I'll be seeing Elitist Jerks occasionally. :)

Yes, I will be Alliance.

probiscus · 08/28/06, 12:06 PM

WTF another double post.

Kaubel · 08/28/06, 12:07 PM

The cross-server stuff has been nice so far and it'll be good seeing familiar faces from these forums.

During a WSG in which we were winning pretty easily, I even had some random, alliance warrior stop in front of me and /flex repeatedly.

berg · 08/28/06, 12:07 PM

I have not recognized many people but I have seen some of the worst players imagineable since the cross realm bgs got released. :)

I had a full netherwind mage with a SotSF poly, cast Arcane Power and then cast..... Arcane Missles on me.
Sweet.

Nurru · 08/28/06, 12:13 PM

I never could figure out how to whisper your paladin to thank him for the heals/BoF's. The only successful way I've been able to /w x-server folks in BG's is to have them type something in the /BG channel, and then I can click their name.

The trick seems to be to add -servername to the whisper, so I had to do /t probiscus-kilrogg. Somewhat annoying considering some of the server names are obnoxious.

I have not recognized many people but I have seen some of the worst players imagineable since the cross realm bgs got released

Yeah.. Prob, myself and a Paladin delayed an AV by probably 45 minutes by just getting horde to send waves of players at the base/tower near Iceblood where we had at best maybe 4 people.

One was a decent list team from blackrock and another a full team from silverhand which had 3 players with no rank at all... (RP server I think)

How do people hit 60 without a rank? /boggle

Vhal · 08/28/06, 12:14 PM

I think I two-shotted Probiscus at a the stables a couple of days ago.

Nurru · 08/28/06, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Vhal

I think I two-shotted Probiscus at a the stables a couple of days ago.

Scheme was his healer in AV :)

• Navaash · 08/28/06, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Nurru

How do people hit 60 without a rank? /boggle

Conscientious objection. When I leveled both my warrior and rogue alts to 60, if someone started ganking me I would usually just spam my sit key and not fight back, making an exception only if it would result in an extremely long graveyard run. Even then HKs would number in the low single digits per week, meaning that it wouldn't qualify for earning rank points.

Taikero · 08/28/06, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Kaubel

The cross-server stuff has been nice so far and it'll be good seeing familiar faces from these forums.

During a WSG in which we were winning pretty easily, I even had some random, alliance warrior stop in front of me and /flex repeatedly.

If you remember the Warrior's name, was he a Human Warrior named Keoke?

I ask because one of the people I'm transferring with (Whole guild moving over) transferred an alt last night and almost had an orgasm on Ventrilo when he ran into you guys. Not sure if it was during WSG or not though. He said he ran into you guys twice last night.

Elendril · 08/28/06, 12:20 PM

xserver bgs for me have been funny lately, since we haven't had a team up and running so i've just been pugging it up. haven't seen anyone i recognize from here yet (at least that i've noticed!), but it has been amusing getting into games with people from new servers who just ogle over my gear. i zoned into a wsg once and half the team just stood around inspecting me until the game started :-P

Kaubel · 08/28/06, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by Taikero

If you remember the Warrior's name, was he a Human Warrior named Keoke?

It very well could have been. I don't remember the name but he was definitely human.

I had just captured a flag and was headed out our front door when I saw him running in. He stopped, I stopped, he started flexing, I flexed and danced, he sat down, I mounted up and took off.

Vhal · 08/28/06, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Nurru

Originally Posted by Vhal

I think I two-shotted Probiscus at a the stables a couple of days ago.

Scheme was his healer in AV :)

That explains so very much!

Must supress urge to roll alliance alt...

Ranalis · 08/28/06, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Nurru

One was a decent list team from blackrock and another a full team from silverhand which had 3 players with no rank at all... (RP server I think)

How do people hit 60 without a rank? /boggle

So, since I may be the only poster here who has the gall to admit he's on a RP server, I'll try to fill you in.

Silver Hand PVP, until 1.12 was HORRIBLE for alliance. We have about a 6:1 Alliance:Horde ratio, and as a server we don't have a huge amount of progression (combination of lag and player base). So, there were a couple really good horde teams who could PVP constantly, and an endless supply of alliance PUGs to get stomped. As alliance, you would put together a team and fight the same 1 or 2 horde teams over and over for hours - waiting on average about an hour between games. We used to think that 35 minute waits were nirvana. In addition, horde pretty much ran only WSG on SH, and never AB. So unless you wanted to do that with horde teams, you could just dispense with PVP entirely and not get a rank. That's how ;)

Now, alliance teams with a good mix of gear can get a game very 2-3 minutes, get into AB and AV more consistently, and actually have a chance to roll pugs or fight a different mix of teams. 1.12 is THE best patch for SH so far merely because it makes PVP something you can do occasionally while waiting for a raid, etc. I will admit that I got more farming done in between BGs pre-1.12, but I don't miss that much.

I'll look forward to concussing some of you who are in Battlegroup 9.

Zephro · 08/28/06, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Nurru

How do people hit 60 without a rank? /boggle

Like the poster above me, PVP on Defias Brotherhood sucks. The Horde have these amazing exploits called "organisation" and "tactics" and used to crush the alliance constantly in all the battlegrounds. It gets a little soul-destroying turning up to a WSG in the expectation that you'll spend 30 minutes earning one token as everyone in your raid turtles in the flag room.

So after a while I just didn't bother. when I rerolled, I skipped PVP entirely except for the odd bit of world PVP, which was never enough in a week to get me a rank (mainly because I played odd hours).