SotA

This weekend's Battleground *Call to Arms* is Strand of the Ancients.  OH boy, exciting times. For the alliance in my battlegroup, this seems a hard bg to grasp, conceptually. The whole game is about Demolishers (vehicles) vs. Gates (walls). Strategy here is, of course, stop the demos on defense, and stop them from stopping the demos on offense. Sadly, people are caught in what I'll call a 'PvP robot' loop. They manage to kill 1 demolisher, and the 3 players riding in that demo fall out, they proceed to fight the players while the other demolisher rides right past and up to the gate, or the other 2 demolishers, or the other 3 sometimes.  This is not only in SotA, across the board in bg's, people get caught up in racking up the honorable kills and fail to pay any mind to the objectives of that particular bg. Warsong Gulch for example, a competent group of 2 to 3 players can carry the whole team of unfocused nubs to victory, so if the other 7 are locked in the robot loop just killing in the middle of the field, it doesnt matter. This is not true for SotA, here you have to kill the demolishers which have a considerable amount of health, and I (a healer) am often the only one following a demolisher through a broken gate, while my teammates stay behind fighting players with pocket healers that arent gonna die anyway. All in all, this is my most frustrating bg experience, because I know what to do, but I cant accomplish it alone, and noone listens to a strategy. On the other hand, sometimes you get in a beautifully balanced group of people who know what's important and you can actually scrape a win in SotA. Even less often you get an opposing team that is horribad, and even with a scrub team you manage to do exceptionally well, but these are few and very far between. All things considered, I reckon I will be ignoring the *Call to Arms* and shooting for random battlegrounds instead, that way theres only a chance to be stuck in SotA.

28754 kills as the weekend starts, if I cant top 30k by Monday I'll call myself a failure, but I expect 30k tomorrow sometime. I have started spending my honor points and accumulated arena points on a feral pvp set. Though I will be using my PvE tanking spec with it, I think it will be useful in spots, if only as a stun-bot.