Alterac Valley

[Felidan]

Alterac Valley or AV for short is one of the bigger bgs out there first avalible at 51 and up only Isle Of Conquest is bigger in size and scale

both teams have 40 people (basically 1 full raid)

the objective of AV is to kill the other teams general before they kiil yours or wittle down there renforcements to 0

there are graveyards and towers/bunkres set around teh map in a similar pattern to each other , if u cap the flag in them u will begin a timer until it is destroyed u can prevent the tower from being destroyed (if its urs) by caping the flag after the enemy does.

the general is gaurded by special pwoerful gaurds that correspond to the bunkers/towers

basically kill all towers to make ur life alot easier

there are side quests that have you getting supplies out of the mines, or turning in armor scraps for a bit more armor and upgraded npc gaurdsm if u turn in enough storm crystals u can summon a boss npc that will help you fight if u resque a gryphon/wyvern rider turning in enough badges will let u depoly a becon so they can do airstrikes but these side quests are RARELY done due to the reletivly short battles

the best stratagey for a fast AV is to leave a few defenders behind just enough to hold back teh enemy, and rush the captain (basically a semi-boss that has a corrosponding general gaurd and removes alot of renforments from enemy teams counter) then after hes dead attack twoers and leave 5 to 6 people there to gaurd it then move to next tower and again leave 5-6 people to gaurd while this is going on have 3 or so rush the relief hut in teh enmys main base. then kill the towers in teh base and defend once all towers down hopfully the defense has held back the nemy long enough, the "ALL IN" is yelled that means to rush in and kill the general you will need tank and healer



TANK AND HEALER ESSENTIAL TO KILLING GENERAL! HE IS BASICALLY A RAID BOSS!



have fun! kill many horde!

[Felidan]

Defese: i forgot to cover it.

the Alli on defense have many tactical advantages,
(From Dunbaldar south following the road it goes as)
the bridge to dun baldar acts as a choke point funneling all teh horde to one point, there is a ledge infront of the north bunker that ranged defenders can shoot from, i have done thios a bit and they turn around when they come under fire lol but beware they can and WILL shoot back and Dk death grip will yank you down to them.

The ridge between teh road and teh GY can be climbed easy and snipers like hunters and mages can shoot down from here and melee can jump into the middle of teh enemy grp and kill healers or somthing.

a short distance more tehre as teh road slopes down there is a ridge on the left that u can walk on above teh road hunters mages love this! shoot from above and kill them! but beware they have a way to get up there behind u but those that do that are the smart players.

from there ther are no real defensive ares worth noting.


even though i have not played horde side in AV (my 1 horde alt bloo not high enough)
i will still try to explain to the best of my ability,

from combat intel the hordes area is hard tro defend if the alli move around more they can just go around u.

the main base however is more difficult. they have a wall with a small opening that can funnel troops through but nearby there is a mound that can let a mounted player jump over the wall. back from there there is a hall that is very cramped, once past there if u stand on teh towers or the door you can hold back the alli ( or the horde if u are defending teh relif hut or somthing) and shoot away, problem is ther is a small area between teh west tower where a player can jump through and get into teh tower.

Defense is a huge part of AV as if u have no defense u haev VERY little time to kill the enemys general, a balence between Defense and offense makes a perfect AV, enough D to slow or stop the enemy and enough O to crush the towers/bunkers and teh general

use it well!

[Felidan]

the side quests:

when u loot a dead enemy (remove badges) u pick up several things, armor scraps, crystals (alli) blood (horde) and marks with 3 ranks, soldier, captain and commander,

the armor scraps when turned in at the blacksmith at ur base with 1. give u a armor buff "polished armor" and when enough are turned in u can summon better garuds, said gaurds gaurd the flags, they go from normal, expericend then vetran,

the crystals or blodd when u turn in ALOT of them u start a thing wher the npcs that u turned the items into run down into the feild of strife and start to summon a boss grade npc to fight for u, said boss requires several to summon and at first will just stand in teh feild until it finnaly decides to walk down the raod to there base,

after u resque npcs traped on the enemys side, (the are in towers but 1 is off to the side) they will return to ur base.
once there u turn marks into them and after a while they will ofer ground assault (i have not seen this) or an airstrike where u take a beacon and put it in a crater in the feild of strife and gaurd it for a minute or 2 then the grphon or wyvern will fly down the enemys road and bombbard anything in its way.

another is where u kill the npc wolfves or rams and take there skins then use give them to a stables peron and when u have enough u can summon cavalry i have only seen this happen 1 time but that was before the renforcements thing.

im sure there are some i am missing but again since AVs are short due to 1. renforcements and other factors they rarely get used, only Turtles have them used but not much and people hate turtles and moan about it should one start.

good luck!

[felidan]

i found teh numbers for the special battle quests in AV

to summon ground assault u need 280 irondeep supplys or 28 turn ins, or 70 coldtooth supplys or 7 turn ins its backwards for the horde

for cavalry attack u need 25 stabled rams and 25 wolf hides
for horde is backwards again, 25 wolves and 25 ram hides

for teh boss unit (Giant tree for Alli or Ice dude for horde) u need 200 crystals or blood

for teh air strikes, going from lowest rank needed and up

soldier 120 marks
Lieutenant 60 marks
Commander 30 marks

while they are neat little things that make alot of fireworks AV has turned into a "who ever gets to the enemy base first and kill leader wins" battle, its now just a PVE race than a allout pvp warzone (blizz screwed up again and people kept QQing due to long bgs which im fine with and many other ware fine with)

anyways if u ever actully get to use one of teh above special attack quests or whatever your eitehr in one heck of a turtle or lightspeed fast or really really lucky