

You have to get the orbs to the middle.ģ) Targeting healers. You'll hear people try and state that it's a good strategy to hold orbs out of the middle. In both of those matches we lost badly, and the player holding the orb would not listen to reason: You can't hold orbs out that far, 1) you get almost no points, and 2) you are not helping your team in any way to combat the enemy. That's close to as bad as not grabbing an orb at all. In several of the BG's, our team held the orbs more often, we were grabbing them faster, but because they were too scared to get in the middle ("I'm going to die!") we ended up not getting the bonus and we lost very close matches.Įven worse? In 2 matches we had idiots carrying an orb way outside of the BG, on the very outer edges, as in, near the graveyards. You have to grab the orb and immediately make a beeline for the pit, regardless of who owns the middle.Ģ) Staying out of the pit/middle. When orbs were down, teamates were running around righting and not picking them up. So what behaviors will pretty much guarantee you a loss in this bg?ġ) First and foremost: People avoiding orbs. The other 11 losses were blatantly foolish behavior by my teamates, paying no attention to instructions. Out of those 19 losses, I kept track of the enemy teams, only 8 times were they clearly better teams.

If you (YES YOU) do not grab orbs, and avoid the pit, WE WILL LOSE! Lets win this!Īgain, that was 65 wins, 19 losses, with me going in by myself, I wasn't partied up with anyone, so it was 9 random players I was dropping those instructions on every time. If we get 3+ orbs, EVERYONE to the PIT, and watch the points blow up. Healers, unless grabbing an orb, try to stay in the pit, use your big heals in the middle. Orb carriers have a huge damage increase that makes healing them very hard, so ONLY focus the orb carriers. GET IN THE PIT!Īlso, focus killing their orb carriers. Do NOT stay outside of the pit with orbs, OR WE LOSE. Take orbs to the middle, for 25% increase in points. OKAY! To win, Grab ORBS! If an orb carrier dies, RUN to grab the orb! This means YOU. I tweaked my instructions several times to get them down as best I could, here they are: I ended up going 65-19 on my way to 100 wins. I selected Kotmogu specifically from the menu, then created 3 macros to give instructions to the other 9 players in order to have the highest chance for success. Upon starting, I had 35 wins, mostly from doing this battleground randomly.

Do not be disheartened if your team is behind - You can catch up!Ĭomment by dillybarI dedicated a few days of game time strictly to get, for which I only needed the.Remember to watch for un-held orbs that can be picked up!.You earn very few points and it is very hard to defend. Do NOT take orbs the outer edge of the map.Hold the orb as close to the center of the map as you can without putting yourself in danger of being killed.While holding an orb, eating still restores health at a normal rate - between battles make sure to eat up, don't expect heals.Unlike many PvP scenarios, focusing the Orb carriers and not the healers is more effective. They can be killed very quickly and heals are less effective. When an orb carrier is killed the opposing team gains a small number of points. The closer to the center of the map an orb holder is, the more points they earn for their team. The amount of points you receive from holding an orb is determined by where you on the map you are. However I will say from personal experience they can become quite high. Thus making it increasingly hard to hold onto the orb, It is unknown whether there is an upper limit to these values or how quickly they increase. However the value of these buffs increases the longer the player holds the orb. Increase damage received by player by 5%.While held the Orb also grants the player certain buffs. Upon death it will be returned to it's original location. Once an orb of power is picked up it can not be dropped or transferred. While the orb is held you earn points for your team. There are 4 "Orbs of Power" that can be picked up by a players. Comment by madcowdiseaseTemple of Kotmogu is a new 10 person battleground introduced in Mist of Pandaria.
