An Apology to Emberstorm
We hate Arathi Basin. Not the concept of the battleground, but the fact that Alliance is so Elune-awful at it.
It makes us want to punch babies.
We’re standing on goldmine, capping the flag. What was a 4 on 4 is now a 2 on 1, in our favor. All the other guy has to do is control the other hordie and we’ll take it. We’re in the process of capping it, we’re at least halfway done. The other alliance just has to give us 4 seconds, and it’s ours. Attack. The. Horde.
He starts to cap it with us. /facepalm
Hordie attacks us, attacks him, reinforcements arrive for them, not for us, we die, and never take the flag.
And we let loose in battleground chat with many colorful and foul invectives.
Having lost eight in a row, we think we were a little entitled. We watched the Horde steamroller us 0-5 five matches in a row. We watched them seemingly have ten players on four different flags at once. We watched three Alliance rush into a flag guarded by five Horde over and over again.
We wanna reroll Horde, ’cause this is blatantly insane how great they are at AB.
So we told our “partners” off, telling what they were doing wrong, and how dumb they were being. In our favor, we were only directly rude to one person, who accused us of talking instead of fighting. To which we replied,
“Not only are we #1 in damage dealt, total kills, and killing blows, but we’re also #2 in healing. Why don’t you just keep lighting up the bottom of the charts, it seems to be what *you’re* good at.”
We were mad, and yes, we went above and beyond the call of being an @ss.
We post many PvP shots and stories where everything comes out looking great. So in the interest of fair and balanced reporting, tonight we came off looking like a tool, and we thought we should write about it.
Emberstorm Alliance, we apologize for our behavior in AB. We shall restrain our furious anger more adroitly in the future.
Emberstorm Horde, we need six more tokens. May we win two ABs tomorrow? We’ll never go back again, we promise.



Blakmagik on 02 Aug 2008 at 12:49 am #
yah ab sux ballz on alliance, we cant win for nothing
jumb on 02 Aug 2008 at 1:15 am #
I’ve seen hode do equally dumb shit in AB. You need to vent to stay sane, keep it up imo.
admon on 02 Aug 2008 at 1:31 am #
as a fellow alliance from emberstorm, i understand why you are so mad. we can not seem to win an ab (or wsg).
Anonymous on 02 Aug 2008 at 2:09 am #
yeah but emberstorm horde cant win a AV. I have a brazillion AB marks, but have to earn AV marks one at a time.
Hoping to face you sometime in a emberstorm BG.
Skraps and HelloKitty
Anotherclown on 02 Aug 2008 at 2:17 am #
Bloodlust have the opposite, we rock in AV but suck in AB. Don’t talk to me about EotS. Ever.
Awlbiste on 02 Aug 2008 at 2:20 am #
When I rerolled from Horde and started playing my Team Pretty Druid in BGs I was boggled at first as to why I was almost always #1 or #2 healing done in my crappy pvp rep blues. I’ve learned to stop questioning it.
mwahahah on 02 Aug 2008 at 4:33 am #
Zomg…. “We wanna reroll Horde, ’cause this is blatantly insane how great they are at AB.”
Yes please! (Fer the Herde?)
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Vurag on 02 Aug 2008 at 6:32 am #
Come to Europe, Horde suck everywhere, all the time.
Seidhkona on 02 Aug 2008 at 6:40 am #
Funny. On our server Alliance own AB like nobody’s business!
kunukia on 02 Aug 2008 at 7:45 am #
My battle group does OK in AB, and it is my favorite BG.
Dobmeister on 02 Aug 2008 at 8:06 am #
It’s very temperamental in my experiences. Sometimes you go into any of the four BG’s for a whole weekend and feel your fellow Alliance members could be vastly improved by replacing them with automata who just roll their faces over the keyboard. Other times you wonder whether any Horde member in anything more than 2 parts of Season 1 gear is just taking the day off.
And it is a disturbing yet hilarious paradox that I as a hunter can quite easily out-heal any of the four healing-capable classes.
Alihyah on 02 Aug 2008 at 9:19 am #
Aye, the Alliance in Ruin sucks pretty bad too.
We do half/half on AV, rarely well in WSG, but I’ve never ever won an AB or EotS at level 70.
For the Pie on 02 Aug 2008 at 9:30 am #
Yay for AB i need to farm some marks from there as I have AV marks dying in the mail.
Oh BRK, no you cannot just win AB, cuz you won’t just let us win AV.
Married IRL » Mini update on 02 Aug 2008 at 11:05 am #
[...] since it’s AV weekend. I was in an AB yesterday to get some marks for my S2 shoulders and BRK ATE MY FACE! (Hobbes was scary.) But we still won that AB funnily [...]
Cay on 02 Aug 2008 at 11:08 am #
If you see my PvPing on Alliance, if it’s WSG/EoTS/AB, horde will definitely win. AV, they have a 50/50 chance.
If you see me PvPing on Horde, if it’s WSG/EoTS/AB… horde has a 50/50 chance to win. I seem to lose a lot on Horde side too. I’M HEALING MY LITTLE FINGERS TO THE BONE DAMN IT! STOP LEAVING ME ALONE AT A GD FLAG! /huff Oh and we usually lose the AV, but then again, we’re still averaging about 300 honor per AV weekend zerg. 11 to 15 mins per, that’s not bad at all ^.^
Goeben on 02 Aug 2008 at 11:10 am #
Come over to Rampage Battlegroup — Alliance owns just about everything. Horde does best in EotS, but not enough to make up for the epic suckage in the other three.
Papaoomowmow on 02 Aug 2008 at 12:34 pm #
The Arathi Blues can shorten a fuse. That’s for sure.
Any experienced bg player who hasn’t typed some howling battlefield invective at least once is a better person than me. Your remarks were pretty mild, BRK.
Nowadays I limit my comments to terse information and warranted praise.
When the enemy seems to be everywhere and help nowhere to be found, your team is usually hopelessly outgeared and outskilled. Nothing to do but keep tryng to the end.
Skeins of mismatches, on both sides, will probably be happening even more often as seasoned arena players, decked in brutals, enter more BGs in search of rating requirement guardian gear.
Anonymous on 02 Aug 2008 at 12:38 pm #
More e-peening from BRK *yawn* this is getting old.
Anonymous on 03 Aug 2008 at 2:55 am #
No really. For the love of all that’s holy and good, please explain it to us! We, who rerolled Alliance on Scarlet Crusade from Horde on another server, WHY ARE ALLIANCE SO TERRIBAD AT EVERY BG BUT AV?!
Dragoncroft on 03 Aug 2008 at 3:00 am #
(Ignore the above. Apparently Firefox can’t handle the commenting on the BRK (Wordpress) site)
No really. For the love of all that’s holy and good, please explain it to us! We, who rerolled Alliance on Scarlet Crusade from Horde on another server because of friends, WHY ARE ALLIANCE SO TERRIBAD AT EVERY BG BUT AV?! Really. /cries /sobs. It wouldn’t be so bad if we understood but we don’t! I don’t believe that Alliance are just naturally dumber than Horde at basic tactics. It defies all the laws of statistics. But someone, anyone, please explain. /facepalm. Also, someone who was Alliance from day 1, please explain to a native Hordie…why do you LOSE YOUR MINDS if people attack the stables? Why does it matter? Go take something else!
Oh, BRK, please enlighten your poor confused acolyte with your wisdom.
Marathonian on 03 Aug 2008 at 10:35 am #
Uh,BRK…it’s Emberstorm the worst battlegroup of them all.Just be happy everyone else on both sides didn’t decide to lose at the same time.I actually had that happen before.It took them a hour to figure out what was going on.We finally won,mainly due to me ignoring the protests of the intentional losers.They really got their knickers in a bunch over it.
Soulplex on 03 Aug 2008 at 10:11 pm #
Re the re-roll . . . I had this Starwars-esque idea that maybe if your tired of being destroyed by the Horde in PvP, you could simply “turn to the Dark Side” . . . wouldn’t have to re-roll at all just hit the “turn to the Dark Side” button
PS Actually should suggest that to Blizzard!
Morane on 04 Aug 2008 at 12:40 pm #
Hey, you’re in my battlegroup! How cool is that? ‘Course it will be a while, if ever, before we meet up and I’ll probably be on the other side.
I’ve also heard, via expletives in guild chat, about the horde issues in AV on Emberstorm.
Pixeldust on 04 Aug 2008 at 4:35 pm #
Horde is to AB as Alliance is to EoTS. You kill us in that every time. Hope to see you in Emberstorm soon. I’ll be the PVE-specced and geared mage being one-shotted by Hobbes.
Anonymous on 05 Aug 2008 at 1:37 pm #
What does posting a killing blows, damage done screen shot have to do with someone capping the flag with you?
Even your apologies include epeen stroking. /rollseyes
Toondad on 13 Aug 2008 at 2:20 pm #
AV is not really PvP, its PvTowers and PvBoss. I’m Horde and totally content with losing AV and earning 1 mark per game as long as I get the HK. But losing in other BG drives me nutso!!! Especially in WSG where you can waste 30 minutes for small amount of honors and maybe get 3 tokens out of it.
Argghhh damn druids/pallies in WSG