After some Scenarios, my group noticed that Thunder Mountain was completely owned by Order and the Zone Domination Timer was ticking down. I believe we started with a group of 1 Chosen, 2 Sorcs and 1 Zealot (myself). We decided to go check it out --- maybe flip a BO to reset the timer or try to help retake the zone, BO by BO. We arrived at the Destro warcamp in the South.
C is the closest to the warcamp, so we decided to go have a quick look to see what we were going up against. There were a couple of groups defending. This is the typical situation when a zone is close to locking, since C is closest to the warcamp, and it is the most susceptible to attacks from people flying in to defend the zone. I usually estimate the numbers at C to represent 80% of the people in the zone. So, we decided to hit A, assuming that our group could take 20% of whatever was left in the zone. We were right. We met them with even numbers, but out-PVP'ed them and capped the BO despite having to fight the players and the BO NPCs. This put 30 minutes back up on the Zone Domination timer. Now we waited to see if we could fend off attackers long enough for the BO to lock. Unfortunately, the groups at A came to defend it, along with the people we killed and sent back to their warcamp. Our small group was wiped.
There is a quick direct route via bridges from C to A, but even so, the response from C to A was surprisingly quick. That suggested that there was some organization here by the Order in the zone. I noticed a familiar name from the last fight: Dv (full name omitted). That instantly gave me an idea of what we were going to be up against. Dv tends to lead a bunch of nobodies to PVE zones. His warbands are always zergy, and they always overcommit their resources. He also shies away from confrontation and relies on numbers rather than skill. Dv also always tries to be 'smart' by attacking what appears to be the weakest target. And thus, he is always predictable.
But it was clear now that we needed more numbers. We needed more than 4 people to be able to be more of a threat and to capture/defend objectives more effectively. By now, our group started to refer their friends. They wanted to join in the fight. We expanded the group to a private warband. I wanted to keep it private because I wanted to have a bunch of solid people we could count on. I didn't have the patience to motivate zerglings who would start whining if we started running around too much, or who would rather sit at a BO to get the extra 500 RP.
We barely filled 2 groups, and we hit C from our warcamp. As expected, the greedy Order zerglings were waiting for A to flip for their 500 RP and C was lightly defended. We flipped C, put 30 minutes back on the clock, but we were wiped by a bigger zerg than what we had seen before. This meant that more Order PVE zerglings were trickling into the zone to try to collect their zone lock rewards. Despite the loss, this confirmed that we had an advantage. The warbands we were facing were very zergy. It looked like they would have communication problems for complicated directions, and we could easily out-maneuver them. It helped that our warband had good players and that all they needed to know was the plan, and they would each know how to execute it to each of their class' best abilities. From all our fights with the zerg, we also knew we could out-PVP them.People in region chat were asking if there was any Destro organization in the zone. Someone mentioned my warband. I guessed that at that point we could use more numbers. If the new additions could keep up it'd be great, but otherwise it's ok if they left the warband to go PVE elsewhere. I reluctantly opened my warband to the public and assigned assistants to help arrange groups.
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