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Overtaking a city
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Thror
You didnt take anything over. You only cleared the guards. They will respawn in a few minutes.
If you would want to "control" a city for an extended period of time, you would want to kill all the NPCs as soon as they respawn again. Since the NPCs respawn pretty much constantly once you kill them for a long enough period, you would find yourself just chaotically running back and forth through the city, and killing NPCs. There will never be any joy of "controlling" anything, like there is in other games where you can seize control over some kind of a colony, and profit from it somehow.
If you want to overtake cities solo, go play Gothic 3.
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dslg604t
wait.... Thunderbluff..?
That's like a ghost town on my server. No one goes there. It's like the Darnassus of the Horde.
And that's related how?
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Post by
Wondroustremor
As in, overcoming TB isn't that hard when it's a ghost town. If it was fully populated with NPCs and players as well, then it would be harder to maintain control over. Especially with players who take being killed in their own faction's city rather personally.
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dslg604t
He didn't say it was hard or easy, he just asked if anyone had tried that before.
I imagine it's possible to take over a bigger city with enough players, but the other faction would probably group up and repel you eventually as they can sit there grouping up while you have to fight off guards.
It sounds highly possible on a server where the factions are extremely unbalanced though.
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Thror
Yes, on my realm, we have once had Stormwind pretty much overrun by horde for like one hour. Auctionhouse NPCs permanently killed, entries and exits camped, graveyard camped. Sucked...
I would still advice Gothic 3 though. Beating the entire orcish population of a city in a fricking shaman shack was so epic.
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Lourss
Yes, on my realm, we have once had Stormwind pretty much overrun by horde for like one hour. Auctionhouse NPCs permanently killed, entries and exits camped, graveyard camped. Sucked...
Maybe it sucked for you... but sitting here, reading your comment, it feels like you, sir, were a bystander of an
epic
event right there.. I would be thrilled to witness such an thing, the opposite faction controlling the city heh :)
Post by
Torlagi
After reading the post about world boss's storming cities I was wondering if a group o regular players ever tried taking over a city. Not a "For the Alliance/Horde", but take a city, and sit and control it. What gave me the idea was I was doing "For the Alliance" last week and our group was taking to long to get to TB, so I, a dk tank, a hunter, mage, tree, and shadow priest went in early and killed our way all the way to Cairn. We killed every player, guard, NPC, everything.
Has anyone ever tried controlling a whole city for an extended period of time? Might sound boring, but I had a blast taking over TB.
On Runetotem last Oct. the Horde guild Gerudo under their GM Soundwave
organized a 500 player raid on all the allied cities. He got most of the raiding and
casual guilds to commit to the raid. Each guild had a primary area of a city to take and hold.
Our 12 man raid had the Mage teleport tower in Stormwind.
The Horde raiders controlled the Allied cities for over 2 hours. We have a group photo of everyone fishing in the canal. It was a very fun raid. To be able to pull the raid off and it be a surprise was amazing to me.
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vic6string
On bonechewer about 2 months ago, we let the alliance win a WG and then took over the VOA room for the entire 2.5 hours they held WG. We did it at least two times and to make things worse, it was on a Tuesday afternoon! I got over 2000 Honor kills that day alone. We especially targeted warlocks so they couldn't port people into the raid. Classic!
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LittleCarp04
Like 2-3 nights ago Me (Enhance Shaman) a Feral Druid, a Rogue, and a Disc Priest went into Ironforge and sat in the middle between the auction house and bank killing everyone who was flagged for about 10 minutes until like 12 other 80's showed up. It was fun
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Post by
slicendice101
Argent Dawn - EU, a long time ago, the horde decided to do a huge RP-PvP event, while it was a load of rubbish and made playing alliance for that day really hard... They took over
every
alliance settlement, holding all of them simultaneously for about half an hour before places started to filter back into the alliance. The whole event lasted about 6 hours and every faction leader was camped for most of it.
The leader of this event claims that about 600 horde participated during the event, and the server didn't crash!
For most of it, I went to another realm to get away from the fray, not really my kind of thing.
As always with WoW, the alliance reaction to such a shocking event was...to do nothing. :(
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