This weekends battle ground is Eye of the Storm (EOS).

Of all the BG, this one is my least favorite. It could probably be done will with a premade, but no premade ever want to go here.

The idea of EOS is CnC, command and control, but everyone plays it like "big fight in the middle".

I will skip this BG this weekend and Honor Farm Alterac Valley

As you can probably tell, I have a hard-on for Alteric Valley these days. As I mentioned in my other post Alterac Valley Honor Farming, the changes in patch 2.3 make this an honor pinata, and competitive as well.

My win ratio in AV is way over .500, I would guess more towards .600 or even .700. I will point out 5 Alterac Valley situations you can exploit to bring your own win ratio up. (DISCLAIMER: I play ally, so these tips will mostly apply to ally.)

1. If you are passing Snowfall Graveyard (see image too the left) and it is not capped, go cap it. This might be the most important thing you can do in the game. The sooner this is capped, the sooner dead people stop rezing all the way across the map.

2. Defend you offensive caps until they flip. If you see a graveyard capped but not flipped, or a tower capped but not burned, defend it until it does. These static objectives are very important. They give you honor and shorten the field.

3. If, however, Iceblood Graveyard (IB GY), Iceblood tower (IB Tower), and Tower Point (TP) are capped and defended, fallback to try and reclaim the alliance towers. Sometimes you will find Stoneharth Bunker (SB) undefended, or with just one on D that you can solo and get the tower back. That is more honor when you win, and makes it harder for the horde to take down Vann. (The flip is easy to see for the horde)

4. If you are trying to take the Relief Hut (RH), kill the archers in East and West Frostwolf towers. I can't believe how many times wave after wave of ally smash into RH without taking out the archers. They hit for 700 each, and there are 5 on each tower. Removing these archers are key to getting RH.

5. Recognize the horde's Sorched Earth strat. This is where they basically play D and send sniper squads to cap all they ally towers and win by depleting the ally resources. The horde can win with a lot of honor, but it takes a lot of time and ally gets very little honor. If you see this strat, fall back and defend the towers at all costs. This will result in a long turtle game, but the only counter to this strat is to teach the horde it does not work.

You will not win AV all the time, but with heads up play and a good strat, you can win a majority of the time, and get great honor doing it. That said, I understand some battle groups just suck at AV. If that is your BG, drop a line in the comments and let me know what happens. Maybe we can work something out.

If you are serious about honor farming, Alterac Valley is the place to be, especially since the 2.3 patch changes.

You can see the kind of honor you can get in the image to the left. I am talking about 1300-1500 honor per hour if you keep at it.

It doesn't always flow like that, but I easily average that if I play for any amount of time. With the patch changes, there are 3 keys to Alteric Valley:

• 1. Towers. These are the number one key to Alterac Vally. Burn down the towers. Burning each tower gives you 62 honor, and Galv gives another 62. Burning the first 3 towers, and Galv gives a min of 186 honor, even if you lose every thing else. Burning the towers also removes a WM from Drek, making him easier to kill.
• 2. Speed. Everything is on a timer, and the tower and GY timers are shortened to 3 and 4 min respectively. The faster you cap a tower, the faster it burns and you can move on. YOU DON'T HAVE TO KILL THE ARCHERS TO CAP THE TOWER. Cap it, then kill the archers.
• 3. Graveyards. Don't skip the graveyards, and try and defend them. If you have no GY and meet some defense, everyone will get sent back to the beginning. This results in a turtle, which is less honor per hour. Defend open graveyards until they flip.

Also make sure to check for the daily pvp quest. If it is AV, that can net you an additional 400 honor. If you play for 2 hours, thats like 200 honor per hour (I don't know math really ^^) If the pvp quest is not AV, I don't try for it. I will que AV and whatever else BG it is, and if I can get a free win, I do it, but don't invest the time. If you haven't played AV since the patch, try it. It is a lot more balanced, faster, and more honor then ever. It is your number one honor grind bet.