How To: Maximize HKs/Hour

[tifaz]

just saw this from AJ
looks pretty fun and very constructive.

^ pretty much what the title said:

1. Grab a group of 15-20 of the best PvPers on your server (maybe more if you are on a big server). Head into Stormwind Auction House... kill the auctioneers, and anyone inside who is flagged.
Wait as the Alliance will start pouring in to try and kill you. After about 50 kills, the Alliance will start to get more organized and they'll come in big waves instead of a small trickle. Keep killing them. When you're starting to get a bit overwhelmed, rush out... have your prot warrior blow shockwave, your arms warriors blade storm, your elemental shamans thunderstorm, etc.

From there, take the back alley and haul ass over to tram. Once inside the tram, you can regroup and rebuff, etc. Anyone who comes through the portal will be an easy kill. You can also take this time to send out summons if you feel you did not bring enough people.

After you are done regrouping, you have 2 options. You can either choose to go to Ironforge, or head back into Stormwind. If you choose stormwind, I would reccomend going to the bank next, especially if you have strong AoE and a prot warrior. In the bank, make sure everyone stays out of the doorway to prevent a death grip chain. Put lots of nukes and AoE on the doorway. If too many start to get in, have an ele sham or boomkin knock them back out, or have a prot warrior shockwave while an arms warrior bladestorms.

When you start to get overwhelmed here, push out to the courtyard (The tree in front of the AH) and try to wipe their group. From there, head over to the tram and hit Ironforge. I would recommend the AH again. Use pretty much the same strats as the above situations.

When they start to bring in too many people... Or you're getting AoE'd down through the door, you can head over to the bridge in the middle and farm them there, or head into the main entrance. If they stop coming after you, just head back into the AH or Bank.

Using this method, you can easily achieve 600 kills per hour, more if your server is larger.

Reccomended Group Make-Up

20-25% healers... with all of the damage going out (you'll be outnumbered by 3:1, with almost all of them being dps)... the healers are probably the most important piece of the puzzle.

1 Shaman per group... Tremors prevent people from getting feared out of buildings and healing stream helps mitigate some of the AoE damage going out.

1 Prot Warrior

1 Arms Warrior

1 Frost Mage - The novas are awesome for when you need to move your group, or for trapping the enemies in hallways to get AoE'd down.

These classes are obviously not needed and you can go in with whatever you want, having these will just help you out quite a bit.

2. When you can't have that going on, grab 2-3 friends and head into Alterac Valley. What you want to do is force a turtle. Capture Snowfall, then capture the towers and grave yards behind them as they head towards drek. Keep picking them off and they'll respawn all the way back up North. When all of them are dead (They'll probably try to get drek and wipe out of desparity) Head north and enjoy the kills.

Kills per game - 250... Ends up at about 400 kills per hour

3. Use AV enabler to get as many people as possible into AV. Wipe them at Galv, then push them back, taking all grave yards along the way (Except stormpike ofc)...

The best I've gotten using this method was 450 kills in one game... Someone took a tower ofc.

The flip side to this method is to camp in Frostwolf Keep, choke them at the second gate (The one they can't avoid by jumping on the snow pile)...

This method will yield the same results as above, except the Alliance will get some honor out of this (which keeps some of them queuing) and you don't risk people destroying their towers.

4. If you want to do everything solo and you can't cause a turtle game in AV by yourself and you can't get those in your BG to do the same, I reccomend queing for Arathi Basin. You basically just want to sit at Black Smith the whole game... you will get the kills from all of the other nodes on the map. Head over to Stables if you see a big battle going on there.

In addition to this, hit up Wintergrasp at every available opportunity. Leave the vehicles to other people, and just slaughter them at the walls.


link: How To: Maximize HKs/Hour - Arena Junkies Forums


although i would rather try a full aoe setup for 1
dps:
1-2prot warrior
1-2prot pally
2-3uh dk
2frostmage
1-2boomkin
1-2eleshammy
hunter
ret
mage
lock
healers:
2-3priest
2-3pally
2shammy
2druid

[Jon Lajoie]

nice guide, ill give u +rep for the amount of effort put into this

[TuFF]

nice guide, ill give u +rep for the amount of effort put into this

The Copy+Pasta effort? He got it from AJ and just let us all know here on MMOwned

I Give ya props for giving credit to the original thread though.

Thanks

[darkzippy]

Everyone knows grabbing a gank spot in a capital will give hk's.
Why bother finding such a balanced group. Just say /1 LFM Stormwind raid and you'll have 40+ whispers.

You can take over the entire city within minutes and have a massive ganking.
And copy paste? xd

[tifaz]

Everyone knows grabbing a gank spot in a capital will give hk's.
Why bother finding such a balanced group. Just say /1 LFM Stormwind raid and you'll have 40+ whispers.

You can take over the entire city within minutes and have a massive ganking.
And copy paste? xd

hey comeon i stated in the orginal post
this is copy n paste

as for finding ppl. wel in the orginal post the groupmake up was ok

i thought i toss in my own opinion. u can pug it with 40 randoms or u can get a good group make up. the difference is with 40 ppl ur jst zerg n die. with a good makeup u can actualy push forth n back.

meh either way its just a way to play the game.

[late1]

This was actually a good post, original or not, the OP did provide link to source. Without him, I wouldn't have read this.

I never thought of farming HK's. The achievement for 100k (?) HK which awards you the "of Alliance/Horde" wouldn't take an insane time to achieve with this method. AV used to be the place to get most HK's, but now, everyone just goes with the Blitz tactic and I usually end up with 0-1 HK per game :S

I have roughly 26k (IIRC) kills on the achievement, playing the same char all the way from the beginning of vanilla. Doing this, one could reach 100k kills in less than a week, grinding 24/7. Being reasonable, doing this 4 hours per day, each day, it would take approx. a month to go from 0 to 100 000 honorable kills.

+1 rep

[dea]

Good post. I have about 60k hk's, played from s3. 40k to go.. Could try this method. +Rep

[Unholyshaman]

I don't see why people are flaming the original poster.

1) Flaming is not allowed on MMOwned
2) Negative comments are not allowed on MMOwned
3) If you disagree with a thread report it to a moderator and keep your mouth shut
4) If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say

Yes it is a copy and paste BUT
1) He stated that it was in the original post
2) This is a unique guide, there aren't really any other guides that are similar to this guide

This is a method that actually REALLY works, yet so few people do it. The people who post on threads like this "stupid, common sense, etc" are the people who actually haven't tried doing something like this.

Again, don't flame him, if you disagree with the thread then click the report button and move on.

I thought that was pretty much fail.

"Ooh get a bunch of really good pvp'ers and attack SW auction house & tram!"

Not worth the rep. Also, Mage Tower is better anyhow, really hard to beat a raid holed in up there.

Reported for flaming, enjoy your infractions.

[dea]

Yea it isn't a repost in mmowned, plus he told the source so no reason for whine. :wave:

[Unholyshaman]

It's fine let them learn the hard way. Report them and they will receive infraction points, especially if they are repeat offenders.

[tifaz]

thx guys

itll definaly b fun to try it out.
making a raid with that setup today. looks fun

p.s u dont ned the best pvpers but u do need ppl who can follow orders etc.
teamwork is the most important part (refering to 1)

[dea]

It is, I have to agree. But you also need geared people, so you don't just get owned if there happens to be good geared people around!

[rain321cz]

TotW for copy paste?

[tifaz]

y e s its copy n paste i stated that in the orginal post.. i even provided u the link. what more do you want?