World of Warcraft: Warsong Gulch Weekend

For those of you who don't know, back around December a couple of friends pulled me into the World of Warcraft so that we'd be able to spend more time together and adventure and whatnot. Well, against all fears it hasn't consumed my soul, but I do find it an excellent distraction during the average day, and it's fun playing online with friends or going onto an alt (alternate character) and adventuring alone.

Well, 'WoW' has two sides to it, player versus player content - such as killing other people's characters, participating in wide-scale battles, etc - and player versus environment content - fighting monsters and beating dungeons. While I don't like world PvP, where level 70 (The maximum) characters kill on anyone lower than them they find (since they can't put up a fight), and people wait by your body for you to respawn after death so they can easily re-kill you (which some people have been known to do for hours), I do enjoy the controlled wide-scale 'Battlegrounds'.

The Battlegrounds are set into level brackets for fairness' sake, but in a 40-49 bracket you'd normally only find level 48-49 characters, as they have the most advantages as far as equipment and stats go. There are also different kinds, the two which are available right now to my level bracket are a resources collection battle (Arathi Basin, where you tag bases and gather resources based on how many you have) and a standard Capture the Flag game (Warsong Gulch). Warsong Gulch - or WSG - is my favorite of the two. This weekend, from Friday to Monday, they hand out additional 'Honour Points' for participating in WSG.

So, even though I'm level 45, I decided to try my hand at participating. Even just winning I earn about 100 honour points and 3 honour 'marks', both which are used as currency to trade for special rewards from WSG. I don't think myself too great or anything, but I was pretty happy after the first battle when this came up:

Even underleveled (and personally I think undergeared), I was still able to kick my way to the top of the charts (At least Horde-side).

I'll probably be playing more tomorrow and the following days until the weekend is over. Today's count was 10 wins, 1 loss and 2000 honour points. Something about 300+ kills probably as well (I reached over 1000 lifetime today.) I figure that by Sunday night, at this rate, I'll have more than enough for what I have my eye on. Monday will be me just being greedy.

Wish me luck! For the Horde!