The scoreboard never tells the whole story. For example, this Twin Peaks battle.
The Horde had 4 healers. Four. Three of them priests, who are uniquely suited to Twin Peaks. The Alliance had none.
The only harsh words said in the BG were very early on – someone tried to get someone else reported away because they had <100k HP. Someone else jumped in to their defense, saying that people were allowed to gear up. Other people chimed in to leave the < 100k HP DK alone.
And that was it. We got down to work. The first flag cap took 15 minutes, and was hard fought. We would hammer down on their healers and support while snaring and disrupting the EFC. Every Life Grip was met with a Death Grip. But eventually we had too many on offense and our FC went down with no one ready for a repick. 0/1.
Keep at it, people said. I said some things but it’s nicer when it comes from all over. Keep at it. Get the flag, protect the FC.
I was dying a lot. The rogues had it in for me because I was unstoppable on their healers. I burned through shards every chance I could, dots everywhere, fears everywhere. I think when I netted a rogue running after our FC was when I really pissed him off, because he was all over me for the rest of the BG. I was #2 in deaths!
But I was also #1 in damage, blowing Demon Soul and Volcanic Pots left and right, making life hell for those healers. They were not going to get away easily.
At 6 minutes I made my first attempt at the flag. It ended badly but pulled the Horde out of the flag room because of the actions of my teammates. They pulled the turtle first out of the water tunnel, then to the other side. They were split. They’d never expect the warlock bag of tricks.
Demonic Circle is your absolute best friend as a Warlock in PvP. I put it on the other side of the flag room, facing out. Every other time I’d been in there I did it on the ledge to the right – that’s where they’d expect me. I went up the ledge, hit a soul shard, jumped and grabbed the flag behind the defenders.
*poof*
And with that I was sprinting down the ramp. straight for my base. 0/1, 3 minutes, last cap wins, hit the speed pots because it’s time to GO.
My teammates came to assist – flanked me the entire way, peeling the Horde away from me. We had no heals, there was going to be no turtle, we had one shot to win. A DK death gripped me back; I howled at him and kept running as he fled in terror.
Capped with 1 minute left. I may have fist pumped a little.
I’m telling this story for two reasons.
First: gear and team composition help, but attitude, teamwork, and skills can trump it. The Horde DPS didn’t protect their healers – only the healers protected the healers. I wasn’t getting peeled or stopped. They would all group up and beg me to hit them with with soul burned seeds of corruption and Infernals and Shadowflame. I was more than willing to oblige keeping so much pressure up that their DPS would die around them because the DPS didn’t help keep them alive.
Second: the next time I start moaning about how I need to be healing BGs to win them more, point me back to this battle. This one, right here.
And remind me that healing didn’t win jack or shit for the Horde today.