After playing enough games of AV to get exalted many times over, I thought I would share some tips. This post will focus on defense. You don't really want too much defense, 5-7 people is perfect. If you see a lot of people D'ing up, go offense. But, if no one is sticking around, harass the horde. There are 4 main defensive positions, seen in this shot:

1. The first place you want to harass and defend is Icewing Bunker. First start out by standing on the ledge and firing on the horde fighting below. When they make it into the bunker, guard the flag, fear bombing and inturrupting anyone trying to tap it.

You probably will not last very long here, but if you can keep the flag from being capped for 1 minute, that can be significant in a 15 min game.

2. After you are overrun at the bunker, fall back to the first GY. Here is where you can make a significant stand. If you can hold this GY for 3 minutes, that is a success. Watch for horde sneaking around the back, in this area:

A great thing to do is harass whoever is trying to kill the commander. Do "/target com" to target him and kill the tank. In this shot I have him targeted and ready to go when the horde comes around the corner.

Watch for the horde trying to kite the commander around the corner and tank him out of site. If you can't find him, look here:

3. This is the last GY. You probably will not be able to do much here, but fear the flag 1 or 2 times. However, anyone you kill will have a LONG way back to the fight. If you take out 1 horde here consider it a success.

4. Get in the hut. You can do a lot of harassing here. Use the NPC to defend you, then swing around the corner and fear/attack and duck back in. You can get the horde to chase you in and if they get to close, they pull the whole room. I laugh just imagining their chat channel

The point of defense is not to stop the horde in their tracks, it is to slow them down enough that your offense can win the game. Harass, and send them back!