Wintergrasp, zomg! Blizzard *can* make a decent pvp area! Color me surprised. (Though in all fairness I will say it might not always be their fault, as it could very well be all the retards I get stuck with from the other servers. The players from my server seem to know what they are doing, so props to you all on ET) So far my ‘best moment ever’ in there was just yesterday:
It was a pretty even fight, occasionally we’d get the Tenacity so I know we were outnumbered but all in all it was a solid match. It came down to the wire for sure, 1:30 left when I respawned and their final door was damaged but not down. I mounted up and hoped to at least distract the defenders from our vehicles as I knew the siege weapons wouldn’t go fast enough to get me there on time.
I rode up to the final courtyard and ran through a tank that was inching it’s way to the door. A good twenty horde were all pounding the hell out of anything that was red to them, so I stayed ’stealthed’ within the tank’s shape, unsure really how to help the situation. Less than a minute to go, the tank is slowing closing the distance to the door, ranged sieges are still firing, Horde’s honor count is going up faster than gas prices a few months ago, and time is ticking down. The tank and I reach the stairs at the bottom of the door, either his Ram ability was in range, or the catapults behind us did their part, the door crumbled just as we started climbing the stairs.
The tank is low on health but keeps moving, I’m still ‘hidden’ but the AoE’s Horde are laying down are taking their toll on me as well. Down to 20 seconds now, the tank makes it up to the Orb of Winning (or whatever the hell the thing is in the middle) and I bolt out and start ‘using’ it to capture the objective. The tank was close behind and was soon destroyed. Luckily I’m a gnome, and the way the rubble of it fell it actually covered me up again. Half a bar to go.
Some how, probably due to tab-targeting, a pally sees me and just before he gets close enough to hit me, someone stuns him. I saw he had me targeted, spinning in a Mortal Kombat daze just feet away. I honestly don’t know how long the stun on him lasted, or even what caused it, but (probably more-so for the pally) it seemed to last a really long time. But luck or other teammates prevailed, and the capture went through with exactly six seconds to go until we lost. The first words in the raid pug chat was “Wow” and “how the hell,” but shortly after that they were all cheering and “grats”-ing.
Then later on we did the 10 man instance, I tanked it, and two (what I’m told are T7) plate armor dropped. I thought it was cool because I was in the running to get the pieces, only I didn’t notice it is also class specific, and I was the only warrior in there. So I got chest and glove pvp items to boot. Woot!
As for RL, that pesky thing, I think I had a ’sleeping dog running’ moment yesterday morning. You know how they twitch like they are running now and then when they sleep? Well I remember my eyebrow itched or just felt like it needed to be, so I did, and I remember doing that in a twilight-state. I’m not sure how long I dipped in and out of consciousness, but when I finally made it the bathroom to wash the sleep out of my eyes, I had about an inch long red ’scratch’ on my eyebrow. It didn’t hurt, but it was deep red and looked badass. I walked around like Squall for a day, and it was a present I gave to myself for sleeping! Double-Woot!
