Frenzy

We all have those times where things are plugging along like normal, then the stars align and you pull off a feat worthy of the gods. I had my moment the other night, while defending Zimmeron’s Hold in Chaos Wastes. I was only there to waste time while waiting for scenarios to pop. While waiting, I was popping in and out of the keep door to damage the attackers then get back inside before dying.

After a while I ran up onto the wall to gain a better look at the attacking force. They had a full warband, perhaps a few more. While casting Pit of Shades on the attackers near the ram during a period of casual boredom, the Scenario finally popped. I knew I could run away and hope to get out of combat to be able to enter, but that always takes too long.

So I leapt off the wall and ran straight at the Order force. Luckily for me, my guild mate Gool was in the area healing me. The zerg was fairly clueless, with only a tank or two on the door, and the rest clumped together a little over 100 feet away. It was into this clump I ran, casting every spell I had. I silenced the largest cluster of casters I could find and disarmed a slayer.

They started dying by twos and threes when I popped Focused Mind and spammed Shattered Shadows. The crits were flying up all over, for 2.4k from SS and other various amounts from all the other spells I was frantically casting. For some reason, I kept killing them, and stayed alive with one lone Shaman on the walls healing me. After a well placed root and a few more AE attacks of various types, the majority of the warband was dead, and the rest were running.

By this time, some of the Destruction players from the Keep had joined in and helped me chase down the remaining few that had survived my one man onslaught. This was one of those times where I wish Fraps had been running. I must give credit where credit is due, a Shaman and I had wiped an entire Order warband.

Praag Push

Last night in Praag was interesting and fun. We set up two groups to be powerful Scenario groups and were having fun with that for a couple of hours. Eventually, we decided to try and stop the Praag flip by bouncing between BO’s. We hit the north one and were wiped right away. We then headed south where we fared better. Predictably, well over a warband of Order showed up shortly after the cap. With our two groups plus Joanas group, we managed to destroy all Order as they arrived.

After a quick stop at the Manor, we went to the middle BO hoping for a good skirmish. What we found was a swarm of Order sprawled across the platform and spilling off onto either side. We engaged and killed quite a few by coordinating morales, but finally succumbed to their numbers. Glad for the fight, we respawned and went after them again. This time, there were a few more groups of Destro with us, so we fared better.

At one point, there was a mass of Order against a slightly smaller mass of Destro. To our credit, we pushed Order back inch by inch from our Warcamp all the way to the middle BO, then beyond to their Warcamp. It was a furious fight with morale bombing, rifting, rez racing, and irritating knockbacks. If we can recreate that on a nightly basis, perhaps we’ll lose less people to attrition.