Epic healing in AV

So I decided I needed to have a WoW blog too.

I decided this because I've realized I really do kick ass at PvP. I will mostly be bragging about how awesome I am in battlegrounds here, because I seem to suck at arenas. And when I say battlegrounds, I mean Alterac Valley, because the other ones are just difficult.

Between the hours of 3am and now I ran AVs. I met a hunter from our server who I ran with from 4am onwards. We won a couple games doing the standard rush Galv and then hit TP routine. Then I got sick of it. Things needed to be shaked up a bit. I proposed in BG chat that we defend Balinda. I've realized that if I tell people I'm a healer, they will come and do damage. I heal them, they kill things, Balinda lives, we win. It's a beautiful thing. Especially since it was usually warlocks, hunters, mages, and druids there with me.

The AV that inspired this blog, though, was special. I led another effort to save Balinda. There were six or seven of us there at the outset. We repelled the initial assault easily. Another wave came, and defenders started to die. As defenders die, they tend to drift off toward other pursuits. Eventually it was me, my new hunter buddy, and a warlock. We're standing out front killing stragglers and suddenly a wave of horde come around the side. At least 4. We finished off the straggler we were currently occupied with and backpedalled back into the bunker. The hunter died, which was unfortunate, but seemingly inevitable. So there I am healing this lock like there's no tomorrow. I saw a 3300 holy shock crit on him at one point. We repelled a couple small waves of attackers just by ourselves. Eventually we were both killed, but not before I had reached the 250k healing mark!

I rezzed at Stormpike GY and then rode back towards Stonehearth and Icewing, where I encountered a swirling melee at the crest of the hill. Apparently, some enterprising hero had capped Iceblood Graveyard, so the horde kept about half their people in a turtle, and were trying to send the other half forward. They were under 100 reinforcements by this point, so we basically established a chokepoint at Icewing. I kept healing until I ran out of mana, at which point I rezzed at Snowfall. So I noticed as I was riding back that they horde had Stonehearth Graveyard, and that was why there was a never-ending supply of the bastards flowing towards Icewing. So I started taking out the guards there, and noticed that a mage was helping me. We both got killed by resurrecting hordies. So we both rezz, and I ask him if he wants to try it again. We charge back and kill the guards and a single hordie as the rest horde reinforcements trickled away. I was about 2 seconds from getting the graveyard capped when the battle ended.

I had 368,000 healing. Easily a personal best. I felt like I carried that AV on my shoulders. I realized that's an unrealistic and possibly arrogant thing to think, but I know my healing stymied the horde at Balinda, Icewing Bunker, and parts in between. I wasn't completely ineffectual in combat either; I had 9 killing blows and was credited with nearly 90 HKs. I haven't ever broken 100 HKs on Tanthius. I think this may have been a personal high for me on HKs as well.

Simply put, I felt like an MVP. AVs went very well. I only lost 1 in about 5 hours of play. That's definitely solid. I ground out about 7000 honor. I love AV weekends.