{"id":4565,"date":"2012-11-19T04:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2014-08-05T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:56:47","slug":"for-arathi-basin-my-last-achievement-was-to-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4565","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4565 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=4566#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdpx89WfIG1roeliao1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?attachment_id=4567#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_mdpx89WfIG1roeliao2_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>For Arathi Basin, my last achievement was [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/achievement=157\">To The Rescue!<\/a>], recapture 50 bases. This involves:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Having a base you control\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>get attacked by the enemy<\/li>\n<li>and you recapture it in the 53 seconds before it flips to their control.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I started off with a paltry 13\/50, having spent my career in Arathi Basin defending bases to prevent them from flipping in the first place, and never, ever leaving my post once I was defending the flag. I had to change my mindset from doing things &#8220;right&#8221; to becoming as aggressive as possible with the flags.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t a bad shift, actually. By constantly running to the attacked base, even my late recaps (and there were a lot) usually helped retake bases before they could be reinforced by the Horde. (And if the base I just left got assaulted, that gave me another base to chase after. I don&#8217;t have a lot of shame.)<\/p>\n<p>This took weeks to finish. At first it was slow going; I had trouble getting into the right rhythm, I wasn&#8217;t aggressive enough, I didn&#8217;t focus on clearing bases really quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But after 20 or so, I found a groove. Most games saw a recap, some 3-4. The games were infrequent but productive. I watched my AB rep climb (worth noting for the eventual Justicar grind) and remembered how this BG is one of the best. I love Arathi Basin; it&#8217;s a great mix of strategy and PvP and it lets me use all my engineering toys.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes. Engineering toys; the Goblin Glider is incredible for covering distances quickly. If you are approaching the Mine from the ST\/FM, ride a little along the upper road and then hit your glider. You&#8217;ll get all the way down to the flag <em>much<\/em> faster than when mounted. (Plus you sail over any defensive perimeters they may have set up.)<\/p>\n<p>Water walking on the Felsteed also helped tremendously. Not even going to think about lying there.<\/p>\n<p>So: 2\/5ths of the way to Battlemaster. All that remains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 WSG wins<\/li>\n<li>5 WSG flag returns<\/li>\n<li>25 Strand wins<\/li>\n<li>39 Eye of the Storm wins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WSG will be next, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Arathi Basin, my last achievement was [To The Rescue!], recapture 50 bases. This involves: Having a base you control\u00a0 get attacked by the enemy and you recapture it in the 53 seconds before it flips to their control. I started off with a paltry 13\/50, having spent my career in Arathi Basin defending bases <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=4565\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,83,82,34,8],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-achievements","tag-arathi-basin","tag-battlemaster","tag-pvp","tag-warcraft","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}