If you read the title, and you’re reading this, and you were there, then this is the place to discuss the most ridiculous AV I’ve ever played in the 15 year history of WoW.
It happened late evening on 12/14/19.
I have leveled all my horde alts to 120, and had decided to work on my less played alliance characters I had gathering dust.
I had been losing most of the games that night, and coming off a particularly bad butt-kicking from a horde team, I was feeling annoyed and aggressive and had no desire to try to get 38 (I was grouped with a buddy) other strangers to coordinate and pull out a win.
No, what I wanted was to just rip some faces off and take out some frustration.
Apparently, I was not the only one.
The entire alliance team, without saying a word or coordinating the idea, ran straight into the horde team and annihilated them, forcing them to regroup and try to push north again.
It felt good, but at the same time, I knew we’d just made a turtle match.
For the next 2 hours the horde slowly and methodically pushed us all the way back north to our base, capping both mid bunkers and all GY’s. We only had Aid Station.
As you can imagine, a LOT of alliance players were not onboard with the idea of a long pointless turtle match, and started dropping out.
We’d welcome the new players entering with the customary by now, “Welcome to hell” greeting.
During this 2 hours horde would periodically cap 1 if not both of the last 2 bunkers, but we’d always back cap it. They could not make the final push and finish us.
It was at this 2 hour mark roughly that me and my buddy decided we needed to seriously try to cap some towers. He was rogue, and I was feral.
We managed to cap IBT first, which was challenging, because horde would send 1-3 people to back cap ANYTHING that we capped. We had been trying this for 2 hours, but now we were serious and had a plan.
After IBT fell, it took us another 30 minutes of trying to get TP, but we eventually got it too.
I should say that during this time, horde summoned the ice lord. All the alliance assumed it was over.
It was not. We were only 1/2 way there as it would turn out.
The alliance in our base held strong and eventually killed the ice lord.
Entering the 4th hour of this never ending hellscape, me and my buddy started trying to get the 2 frostwolf towers and relief hut. Again and again, horde would back cap.
But we actually did manage to take and hold FW GY, and we had some non-stealthies just hanging there helping us against back cappers.
Around the 3:30 mark, the horde summoned Guse’s war rider wyvern that crapped all over us, but again, somehow, against all odds we held.
The last 15 minutes, though we didn’t know it was the last 15 minutes, we managed to kill the approximately 5-8 man back cap team in the horde base and take the relief hut at the same time, so they wouldn’t constantly respawn on us. This allowed us to get both towers.
We now had approximately 20 alliance in the horde base, but no tanks or healers to speak of.
Those were all north still, somehow STILL holding our base.
Our plan? Run in and DPS Drek as hard as possible until he killed you, and rez and run back and do it over again.
We ping-ponged Drek from 100 - 0% with this strategy, while killing 3-4 horde that were teleporting back to try to wipe us and reset him.
We were all in utter disbelief. This was working, we were going to win, after 4 long hours of the horde dominating us, but failing to finish us off, this was the ultimate come back.
For those players who stayed the entire 4 hours, it was a great feeling.
Did we get less levels? Assuredly. I only got 6 levels in 4 hours. Not very efficient.
But the feeling, when we saw Alliance Wins pop up. Well lets just say it made it all worth it.
To EVERYONE, horde players included, who played that game, respect.
That was a hell of a game, and I saw some good skill on both sides.
