{"id":7926,"date":"2010-08-20T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huntsmanslodge.flywheelsites.com\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2010-09-18T22:50:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T06:50:12","slug":"alterac-valley-all-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/7926\/alterac-valley-all-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Alterac Valley All-Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been so glad to see a Death Knight in a BG, that&#8217;s for sure. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This achievement is a pain-in-the-ass\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/alterac_valley_all_star.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 5px solid black;\" src=\"\/images\/alterac_valley_all_star.jpg\" alt=\"Alterac Valley All-Star\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That achievement I recently earned is one of the more frustrating BG achievements in the game. The necessary steps aren&#8217;t overly difficult, however, trying to get them all done in time requires some hustle and a little luck.<\/p>\n<p>Since trying for this one over the past week, I managed three times to get 4\/5 during the span of the game. Regardless of which task I still had yet to complete, I could never finish in time. The other night it went like clockwork though&#8230; well, aside from the part where I was riding around in the Field of Strife, waiting for what seemed like an eternity, for a soon-to-be-victim.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The achievement we&#8217;re talking about here is of course, <a title=\"Alterac Valley All-Star\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wowhead.com\/achievement=582\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alterac Valley All-Star<\/strong><\/a>. In order to get it, you have to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assault a tower<\/li>\n<li>Defend a tower<\/li>\n<li>Assault a graveyard<\/li>\n<li>Defend a graveyard<\/li>\n<li>Kill an enemy in the Field of Strife<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>All during the course of one AV&#8230;<\/em> I don&#8217;t know about AV&#8217;s in your battlegroups, but 8 minutes would be considered a long match in mine. :-\\<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of running around you have to do in one Alterac Valley battle, and there&#8217;s a lot that can go wrong in that time. I&#8217;ve tried attacking this achievement a few different ways, but here&#8217;s what I found worked best&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Obtaining Alterac Valley All-Star as an Alliance Hunter<\/h2>\n<p>The hardest part of this achievement is assaulting a tower, so the first thing you want to do is ride straight to Iceblood Tower &#8211; claim it and get that one out of the way. If you can&#8217;t get it, then you&#8217;re probably S.O.L. You can try for Tower Point, but getting the achievement I find is pretty contingent on being the guy who gets IBT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">Protip: Make sure to sick your pet on the tower guard just opposite the flag, otherwise he may start firing on you, causing interrupts to the cap.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after you cap it, head over to Iceblood Graveyard if it&#8217;s not yet been assaulted. Usually someone will have already grabbed it, but if you&#8217;re johnny-on-the-spot you might get lucky.<\/p>\n<p>If you managed to assault the Iceblood Tower and Iceblood Graveyard, well&#8230; grats! You&#8217;re beating the clock and in the home stretch now.<\/p>\n<p>If the Iceblood Graveyard was taken, then look to see if the Snowfall Graveyard is available&#8230; if it is, get after it. If no one&#8217;s claimed it by this point, it&#8217;s doubtful anyone will be there. If Snowfall&#8217;s been capped as well, then things will get a little tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Our next step will be to head back to reclaim a tower and a graveyard, so now it&#8217;s on to Stonehearth Bunker.<\/p>\n<p>If you are able to engage a horde character on the way &#8211; do so. Part of this achievement is downing an enemy in the Field of Strife, which you will be riding straight through. Provided you&#8217;ve managed a GY assault and now a FoS kill, all that&#8217;s left at this point is to re-take a tower and a graveyard. Sounds easy, right..? I&#8217;ve got news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good chance that Stonehearth will have some defenders&#8230; if that&#8217;s the case, ride on and try to reclaim the graveyard. It&#8217;s a pretty safe bet that no-one will be guarding it &#8211; <em>at least that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve found<\/em>. If Stonehearth Bunker is heavily guarded, then try Icewing Bunker. If it&#8217;s guarded as well, then just go with which ever tower you think you&#8217;ll have the best chances with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">When retaking a tower, always run in with Track Hidden on, especially if there are no visible enemies. Also be sure to drop a freezing trap on top of the flag just before the cap, as well as a nearby flare. Gotta keep those pesky stealthers in check ya know. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>If neither of them look promising, then you can either still try to Rambo one of them and take your chances -or- ride all the way back to Dun Baldar and hope to reclaim one of those towers. There&#8217;s also a good chance that the Stormpike Graveyard can be reclaimed if you have a graveyard defense still on your to-do-list.<\/p>\n<p>However, only head back to Dun Baldar if you have already killed a player in the FoS. It&#8217;s unlikely that you&#8217;ll have enough time to complete all five achievements during the course of the battle if you have to spend that much time traveling back-and-forth.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s recap&#8230; here&#8217;s my suggested Alterac Valley All-Star checklist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"You too can be an all-star if you just follow my 6 easy steps...\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/alterac_valley_all_star_alliance_map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"\/images\/alterac_valley_all_star_alliance_map.jpg\" alt=\"Alterac Valley All-Star\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>1) Cap Iceblood Tower<br \/>\n2) Assault Iceblood GY<br \/>\n3) Assault Snowfall if Iceblood wasn&#8217;t available<br \/>\n4) Reclaim Stonehearth Bunker<br \/>\n5) Reclaim Snowfall Graveyard<br \/>\n6) Reclaim Icewing Bunker if Stonehearth was guarded<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;all the while looking for a victim in the Field of Strife.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure some of you have other methods that have proved successful, but I gotta tell ya&#8230; you almost need everything to fall into place in my battlegroup. We won within about 30-40 seconds after taking the screenshot shown at the top of this post.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has any tips on how to succeed with this one as a horde character, please share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been so glad to see a Death Knight in a BG, that&#8217;s for sure. \ud83d\ude42 That achievement I recently earned is one of the more frustrating BG achievements in the game. The necessary steps aren&#8217;t overly difficult, however, trying to get them all done in time requires some hustle and a little luck. Since trying for this one &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Alterac Valley All-Star\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/7926\/alterac-valley-all-star\/#more-7926\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alterac Valley All-Star\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"Alterac Valley All-Star Achievement as an Alliance Hunter","_seopress_titles_desc":"Obtaining Alterac Valley All-Star as an Alliance Hunter - The hardest part of this achievement is assaulting a tower, so the first thing you want to do is ride straight to Iceblood Tower and claim it.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,54],"tags":[737,743,742,6],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunter-guides","category-hunter-pvp-discussion","tag-achievements-2","tag-alterac-valley","tag-alterac-valley-all-star","tag-pvp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huntsmanslodge.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}