Asuryan's Flames

Have you found yourself on the bad end of three warbands that are staring you down, well last night that was the case. Well we had two guild warbands in the Shinning Way Fortress and we where looking at between 3~4 warbands coming in on us so we set up a very fun defense. First we slowed them at the outer door as long as possible then retreated to the Fortress and say under the oil and waited for them to come.

As soon as they arrived we spiked them and made a push straight into their clothies and killed off all of their healing as well as their ranged DPS; from there we worked through their meatier members until we had pushed them out. So we prepped for the next attack. A few minutes later another group came in, this time to the west of the fortress trying to sneak behind us, so we attacked them with the same strategy, assist train the clothies. This went on one more time, with surprisingly no losses for us and complete wipes for the attackers. At this point destruction gave up with almost 30min left on the clock to take Shinning Way, instead they opted to camp our warcamp.

Now, in most fights we are out numbered, and sometimes equal but rarely are we the overly large force, but we are extremely successful for several reasons. The first of which is communication. We use vent exclusively to communicate. We will divide up our guild warbands into different channels and keep a good amount of communication between the groups with a focused goal. Next, people know their roles in the warband. We do not have any DPS healers here; everyone is focused and knows what they need to do to make us effective. Next, leadership has a clear goal, when we enter an RVR lake we are there to take the zone and push, not to lose.

Organization seems to be a key element to winning large scale fights in oRVR. Now numbers count, and they count a lot, but a smaller more organized force can beat one that is just attempting to blob win fights. Focus firing, moving into proper positions, and so on are what make winning with smaller numbers possible. Having tanks defending the warband, dps killing clothies, and healers keeping everyone up is critical and without constant communication and status updates, this is hard, it not impossible to do.