Queue up the Conan music. Remember the scene where Thulsa Doom’s minion looks at Conan and says, “You!?”.
Yeah, me! Back by popular demand (and a comment from Lamb). I have returned. Rest assured loyal readers I’ve been playing here and there. I am now a level 55. I have 5237 honorable kills under my belt. I still make it a policy not to gank. I will only fight if struck first.
Just today in Un’goro Crater I was attacked twice while fighting some mob. I killed them both.
So, anyways I’m back and I will be posting more often about my adventures and things I’ve learned about PVP.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
Monday, January 21, 2008
Monday, October 1, 2007
Adventar survives world PVP attack
Over the weekend on the Spinebreaker server Stormwind was attacked by a group of horde. Not a small group of 3 or 4, but a sizable group of maybe 15 or so. I thought to myself 'Crom!'. Using my versatility I hit and healed through the entire battle. Eventually Alliance beat them out. Lo' and behold when the dust settled Adventar was still standing!
In the chaos of combat, I did survive a few hits from some of the high level horde. All in all it was good times. Thanks horde.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
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In the chaos of combat, I did survive a few hits from some of the high level horde. All in all it was good times. Thanks horde.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
Please Visit my other blog
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Battleground Quick Tip Warsong Gluch
Use yourself as bait
Remember the goal of WSG is to capture the flag while keeping your own. If the flag carrier is going down the middle and your riding towards him and get 2-3 horde attacking you. Don't fight to get to the flag carrier you'll only bring more horde on his tail. Instead, head in the opposite direction and keep horde off your teammate. When/if you die they will have a longer way to travel to get your teammate.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
Remember the goal of WSG is to capture the flag while keeping your own. If the flag carrier is going down the middle and your riding towards him and get 2-3 horde attacking you. Don't fight to get to the flag carrier you'll only bring more horde on his tail. Instead, head in the opposite direction and keep horde off your teammate. When/if you die they will have a longer way to travel to get your teammate.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
How to survive in the land of PVP
Well folks, after a long absence I am finally back.
I signed up for Wow before I knew the real difference between PvP and PVE. It's also been widely joked about in wow forums of the weakness of Paladins. I must admit that I was getting very frustrated with Adventar.
As I would travel through Desolace or places like the Badlands I had to come up with strategies to survive. Before I knew well I had to search high and low for advice and finally settled for some strategies that some might prove useful.
When I was a lowbie and was really terrible at PVP one of my strategies was to hide.
I'd hide on ledges to be unseen by horde traveling below or I'd hide in dead mobs if I had to leave the computer for a few minutes.
In this picture over here I am lying down inside this mob. This lying down techniques actually save me from being discovered on numerous occasions. But, I still got killed time and time again. Until finally I almost threw in the towel. I said to myself that's it I'm gonna see what happens if I do battlegrounds.
3300 Honor Kills later I learned a lot about how to defend myself!
To understand the complexity of World PvP life you have to understand the Three basic components of World Pvp Survival.
1. Avoidance
This might seem funny at first, but I am actually serious here. The first step to World PvP survival and Battleground wins is being able to avoid combat when necessary.
Maybe it's from taking many years of Martial Arts training that I just have it so ingrained me to never throw the first punch. Maybe it's following the golden rule, 'Do unto others...'. I hate getting ganked so much that I don't gank others unless they've stuck me first.
My point is to avoid ganking in World PvP. You don't want to be good at killing another player when their health is down. Striking an opponent while he/she is down or is a lower level makes for sloppy game skills. It allows you to garner bad combat habits. You want your skills to be sharper. You want to be good at taking down players at full strength. This forces you to be at the top of your game, where you want it to be.
Avoidance holds true in Battlegrounds where the objective is generally capturing the opponents flag or node, not HKs. In my opinion, this is the number one reason Alliance seems to lose the majority of the time in Battlegrounds.
I don't mean avoid combat at all costs. Don't worry even if you start to avoid PvP fights if you can help it, believe me you will still get into a whole lot of scraps. And if you are ganked and killed first, by all means get revenge.
2. Increase Survivability
Create a strategy for yourself on what to do to keep up your health while in combat. I highly recommend leveling up First Aid and stocking up on health/mana potions. Know every power/item/ability that can keep you alive and have it ready on your tool bar and have a key mapped to it. I've mentioned two ways to keep yourself alive just a little longer. As a paladin I can bubble and heal myself and lay on hands that gives me even more survivability. I'm sure you can think of others for your character.
Also, have an escape plan. Come up with strategies for how to get away if necessary. As an engineer I have invisibility which I've used successfully several times to get away or sneak past some horde to accomplish my goals.
3. Strength
Know your strongest hitters and have them ready to go. Understand when and how to use them. A couple levels ago I dropped my blacksmith talent. It just wasn't doing anything for me. And I took up Engineering. I've never regretted it. Now my strongest hitter is 'The gnomish death ray'. When I was a level 35 or so Paladin I can crit for 1900 not bad. I still use it once in a while, if things are neck and neck. Lately, my skills have seemed high enough that I've beaten other PvPers without it.
So, there you have it the three basic components of World PVP survival. In a future post I will get into more specific strategies for winning in Battlegrounds and possibly more specific details on winning in combat.
I hope you enjoy my first post after a long absence.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
I signed up for Wow before I knew the real difference between PvP and PVE. It's also been widely joked about in wow forums of the weakness of Paladins. I must admit that I was getting very frustrated with Adventar.
As I would travel through Desolace or places like the Badlands I had to come up with strategies to survive. Before I knew well I had to search high and low for advice and finally settled for some strategies that some might prove useful.
When I was a lowbie and was really terrible at PVP one of my strategies was to hide.
I'd hide on ledges to be unseen by horde traveling below or I'd hide in dead mobs if I had to leave the computer for a few minutes.
In this picture over here I am lying down inside this mob. This lying down techniques actually save me from being discovered on numerous occasions. But, I still got killed time and time again. Until finally I almost threw in the towel. I said to myself that's it I'm gonna see what happens if I do battlegrounds.
3300 Honor Kills later I learned a lot about how to defend myself!
To understand the complexity of World PvP life you have to understand the Three basic components of World Pvp Survival.
1. Avoidance
This might seem funny at first, but I am actually serious here. The first step to World PvP survival and Battleground wins is being able to avoid combat when necessary.
Maybe it's from taking many years of Martial Arts training that I just have it so ingrained me to never throw the first punch. Maybe it's following the golden rule, 'Do unto others...'. I hate getting ganked so much that I don't gank others unless they've stuck me first.
My point is to avoid ganking in World PvP. You don't want to be good at killing another player when their health is down. Striking an opponent while he/she is down or is a lower level makes for sloppy game skills. It allows you to garner bad combat habits. You want your skills to be sharper. You want to be good at taking down players at full strength. This forces you to be at the top of your game, where you want it to be.
Avoidance holds true in Battlegrounds where the objective is generally capturing the opponents flag or node, not HKs. In my opinion, this is the number one reason Alliance seems to lose the majority of the time in Battlegrounds.
I don't mean avoid combat at all costs. Don't worry even if you start to avoid PvP fights if you can help it, believe me you will still get into a whole lot of scraps. And if you are ganked and killed first, by all means get revenge.
2. Increase Survivability
Create a strategy for yourself on what to do to keep up your health while in combat. I highly recommend leveling up First Aid and stocking up on health/mana potions. Know every power/item/ability that can keep you alive and have it ready on your tool bar and have a key mapped to it. I've mentioned two ways to keep yourself alive just a little longer. As a paladin I can bubble and heal myself and lay on hands that gives me even more survivability. I'm sure you can think of others for your character.
Also, have an escape plan. Come up with strategies for how to get away if necessary. As an engineer I have invisibility which I've used successfully several times to get away or sneak past some horde to accomplish my goals.
3. Strength
Know your strongest hitters and have them ready to go. Understand when and how to use them. A couple levels ago I dropped my blacksmith talent. It just wasn't doing anything for me. And I took up Engineering. I've never regretted it. Now my strongest hitter is 'The gnomish death ray'. When I was a level 35 or so Paladin I can crit for 1900 not bad. I still use it once in a while, if things are neck and neck. Lately, my skills have seemed high enough that I've beaten other PvPers without it.
So, there you have it the three basic components of World PVP survival. In a future post I will get into more specific strategies for winning in Battlegrounds and possibly more specific details on winning in combat.
I hope you enjoy my first post after a long absence.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
Friday, July 20, 2007
Adventar hits Level 40!
Hi everyone, I finally I got my mount!
It was quite a grind. I survived many horrors. Right now I am hoping to get the 'Aegis of the Scarlet Commander' from the Scarlet Monastery. I've learn a couple more survival tips, dos and don'ts in Horde Territory which I'll be posting soon.
Sorry gang, things have been insanely busy and I'll be posting more regularly in the near future.
Until Then, Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
It was quite a grind. I survived many horrors. Right now I am hoping to get the 'Aegis of the Scarlet Commander' from the Scarlet Monastery. I've learn a couple more survival tips, dos and don'ts in Horde Territory which I'll be posting soon.
Sorry gang, things have been insanely busy and I'll be posting more regularly in the near future.
Until Then, Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Embarressing Moments in Horde Terrortory
So Jamie’s Powerleveling Guide lead me deep once again into Horde Territory. Now I don’t mind taking the hard way. My exception now with his guide is that on PvP servers taking this route can be extremely frustrating.
While west of Rachet I encountered a 23 level Rogue, being 37. I just left him alone. For me there is no point in picking on a lower level character and making more frustrating for them to accomplish their tasks. Apparently he didn’t feel the same way. When he had an opportunity he sapped me. Then he sapped me again. Then he sapped me again. He kept sapping me until his friends arrived. Now I couldn't even attack him because apparently right now, sapping isn’t considered an attack. And apparently there is no cool down for sap. All of the paladin’s attack ‘powers’ have a cool down. The closest equivalent is Hammer of Justice which has a 1 min cool down. Although I didn’t have a chance to use it, because I couldn’t attack the rogue, but I’d bet you Hammer of Justice would have been considered an attack had the tables been turned. I even tried consecration and even that wouldn't damage him.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but under normal circumstances sap should be considered an attack on both PvE and PvP servers. My friend from Zanderfin explained to me that this is a recent bug and that yes, under normal circumstances it would be considered an attack. Can anyone confirm?
So back to my embarrassing story, now his friends were all still low level characters a 23 level mage and a 15 level hunter. I still could not fight them until they attacked me first so I ran off Northwest, heading towards Desolace. As fate would have it, I lost connection at that point. I thought to myself, “Oh No” now they’re going to get honor points for killing me and I won’t even have a chance to defend myself. Lo and behold, when I manage to get connection again, I’m dead and the horde and camping on me, spitting on my dead body of course.
Luckily my spirit form appeared not to far from where I was murdered. And I rez nearby and start swinging away. I did manage to kill them all, but apparently their spirit form appears nearby as well. They kept on rezing as soon as possible until eventually I was overcome. I still suck as a paladin. A part of me thinks I should have wasted my lay on hands on these losers, but then I remember it has a cool down time of an hour and I might need it later on.
So, since they were camping on me I didn’t want to rez and give them more honor points. So I waited until they left which was about 13 minutes. I’m still frustrated with my paladin and even more so now. I can’t help but think that a 37 level paladin with decent gear would be overcome so easily by lower level characters.
I suppose I’ll just have to remember my horde contested area survival tips and some of my PvP successes.
Any advice from anyone out there? Any words of encouragement?
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
While west of Rachet I encountered a 23 level Rogue, being 37. I just left him alone. For me there is no point in picking on a lower level character and making more frustrating for them to accomplish their tasks. Apparently he didn’t feel the same way. When he had an opportunity he sapped me. Then he sapped me again. Then he sapped me again. He kept sapping me until his friends arrived. Now I couldn't even attack him because apparently right now, sapping isn’t considered an attack. And apparently there is no cool down for sap. All of the paladin’s attack ‘powers’ have a cool down. The closest equivalent is Hammer of Justice which has a 1 min cool down. Although I didn’t have a chance to use it, because I couldn’t attack the rogue, but I’d bet you Hammer of Justice would have been considered an attack had the tables been turned. I even tried consecration and even that wouldn't damage him.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but under normal circumstances sap should be considered an attack on both PvE and PvP servers. My friend from Zanderfin explained to me that this is a recent bug and that yes, under normal circumstances it would be considered an attack. Can anyone confirm?
So back to my embarrassing story, now his friends were all still low level characters a 23 level mage and a 15 level hunter. I still could not fight them until they attacked me first so I ran off Northwest, heading towards Desolace. As fate would have it, I lost connection at that point. I thought to myself, “Oh No” now they’re going to get honor points for killing me and I won’t even have a chance to defend myself. Lo and behold, when I manage to get connection again, I’m dead and the horde and camping on me, spitting on my dead body of course.
Luckily my spirit form appeared not to far from where I was murdered. And I rez nearby and start swinging away. I did manage to kill them all, but apparently their spirit form appears nearby as well. They kept on rezing as soon as possible until eventually I was overcome. I still suck as a paladin. A part of me thinks I should have wasted my lay on hands on these losers, but then I remember it has a cool down time of an hour and I might need it later on.
So, since they were camping on me I didn’t want to rez and give them more honor points. So I waited until they left which was about 13 minutes. I’m still frustrated with my paladin and even more so now. I can’t help but think that a 37 level paladin with decent gear would be overcome so easily by lower level characters.
I suppose I’ll just have to remember my horde contested area survival tips and some of my PvP successes.
Any advice from anyone out there? Any words of encouragement?
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Highlights and How do I Look?
Greetings everyone,
I haven't had a chance to make any postings. Rest assured I'm still leveling up. How do I look?
That's me with Gutrender and Raging Berserker's Helm.
I've quested through STV Strangletorn Vale. And I must say it has been tough. The horde have been there ganking alliance players in droves. I have dedicated myself to being better at PvP.
When I think of my proudest moments in Pvp two of them come to mind.
1. When my guildmates were being picked on by a 36 level Hunter. At the time I was a mere level 34. I've gotten ganked so many times that I did some research on how Pvp Better. But, I was determined to get some payback. Collecting what I learned, like I men
2. When I got ganked by a 42 Level Rogue near Hillsbrad. I wanted to get some revenge. I went back and went toe-to-toe. Mano y mano, I beat him and got 8 honor points for it!
One of the highlights during my absence are Reckard dancing on a table on the fourth of July. It's my brothers birthday this week. Actually tomorrow, is his birthday.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
I haven't had a chance to make any postings. Rest assured I'm still leveling up. How do I look?
That's me with Gutrender and Raging Berserker's Helm.
I've quested through STV Strangletorn Vale. And I must say it has been tough. The horde have been there ganking alliance players in droves. I have dedicated myself to being better at PvP.
When I think of my proudest moments in Pvp two of them come to mind.
1. When my guildmates were being picked on by a 36 level Hunter. At the time I was a mere level 34. I've gotten ganked so many times that I did some research on how Pvp Better. But, I was determined to get some payback. Collecting what I learned, like I men
2. When I got ganked by a 42 Level Rogue near Hillsbrad. I wanted to get some revenge. I went back and went toe-to-toe. Mano y mano, I beat him and got 8 honor points for it!
One of the highlights during my absence are Reckard dancing on a table on the fourth of July. It's my brothers birthday this week. Actually tomorrow, is his birthday.
Your favorite Paladin,
Adventar
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