OMG! I was downloading today's mini patch, and besides cool changes to rogues and warlocks (two of my four seriously played toons), there was a note that NOW (not in the Nov expansion) YOU CAN PLAY BGs ACROSS REALMS! Can realm rankings be far behind?

Hey...who's your daddy now, eh?

With the release of patch 1.12, you will be able to face off against players from other realms in the battlegrounds. The new cross-realm PvP battlegrounds will combine players from several realms into huge matchmaking pools for each of the game's three battlegrounds. You can now check out the full battlegroups list to find out which battlegroup you're in and which realms you'll be competing against.

SMASH play this Sunday!

Greetings - We'll have a Skype-capable play session this Sunday starting around 11 a.m. server time. I believe we have a Zul'Farak run that we'll be doing before that, about 9 a.m. server time, but once that's completed, I'd enjoy a WSG or two with whoever's inclined to show.

See you then!

What detente looks like...

I've gone out on a limb with SMASH's good name without consultation to others in the guild. However, the outcome could be interesting.

Learn more about my madness here. My posts are midway down.

I'm still working on a response to Linda's questions about strategies - I think there are several to be discussed.

So...let's talk strategy

LOL. Had two great games today. TWO. 2. with the guildies and some others, notably Lailu and Perix.

We start out pretty well. We really do. Though I was skeptical of Perix's "let's all charge their house" strategy, it wasn't a bad opener. But after the first capping happens, it all goes to hell. Why? We don't seem to be able to regroup after the first shot. Is this because no one is the leader calling out, "hey let's group up at the end of the tunnel." I think it might be. Someone needs to be willing to be the line leader.

Now on Skype, Eric does that and we pretty much follow along. That worked pretty well for us today. But we're rarely the entire Alllie team; we're a part of it, sometimes a small part of it. Partly this lack of leadership happens because everyone seems reluctant to start up the raid group when we first get in there. Invite. Invite plz. Please invite. on and on it goes till someone relents and starts it up. Interestingly, the person who forms the group is the defacto raid captn and can, potentially, step up and lead. His/her chat line is in a different color (pale yellow instead of orange) and that person has some tools, I think, that could direct the line of fire.

Okay, leadership issues aside. Strategy.

Any thoughts out there? No defense; everyone on offense? Only 2-3 on offense? etc.

And man, I wish I knew where they hid that damned flag today. We could not find it and we looked under all the rocks. It might be worth putting a Horde toon in BG to see what that's about.