The battle grounds have changed a lot. The last time I spent any amount of time in Arathi Basin I was in my late 30’s, and a warlock. So I decided to run a few this weekend as a level 60 Priest. It is as different as night and day.

I remembered that as soon as you got into a BG, you requested an invite, listened to what the plan is going to be, and then pretty much did what ever you wanted to because no one listened to anyone else. You just ran around trying to stay alive and collected the HK’s, ya gotta be alive for the HK’s. It was a fun free for all. I tried to stay away from the Alliance Zergs and picked people off from the edges. But, that was the good old days.

Fast forward to a new day, a new level, a new character, and basically a new game.

I popped in, requested an invite, “Invite pls”, nothing. This was getting frustrating. On my third AB of the night with not one single invite, I said in the Arathi Basin channel, “No invite, No heals”. I then receive an invite from a Warlock who had not received a raid invite either. So there we were, an Army of two with me healing my new Warlock friend…

I was in one AV – we lost, but I placed #2 in killing blows. (or maybe 4th, I forget, I have the screen shot. If it is #2, I will post it. If it says that I was #4, I will not be able to post it, crappy computer !!)

I was in 5 AB’s – we lost 4 and won one. I was slaughtered in all of them. During the one winning effort, I found a very strong Orc warrior that I followed around, I healed him and he killed everything. Worked well. Funny though, when I died, so did he, hmmm.

I did have fun and I will be back, there is a nice staff with my name on it, I just have to convince The Defilers that my name is [Ironbark Staff].

Cheers

However, when I logged on, there were only a couple of people around, and after a couple of AB’s, I decided my time might well be better spent slaughtering Nethergarde miners…

So, maybe some other time. =]