Posted by pixiestixy on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 - 23 Comments
Tags: Alliance, douchebaggery, enemy, for the horde, Horde, infiltration, PvP, traitor, Vent, ventrilo, wintergrasp
A couple nights ago, I was running Wintergrasp on my server, Khaz Modan, and lamenting the fact that all day the Horde had been unsuccessful at capturing the contested zone. Finally in one raid group, someone offered up their ventrilo server for everyone to use so we could better coordinate our efforts.
It sounded like a great idea, and I joined up. Another guild fresh off a 25-man Onyxia kill all attended, and were joined by many others in the WG group, as well. The strategy began. We called out when we were getting a group of siege engines rolling, asked for more gunners if we needed them, made sure we were all heading together as groups instead of off on our own, and coordinated who would defend the towers.
All seemed to be going well as far as our own strategies went. There was just one problem: everywhere we went, the Allies went, too, and very quickly. For all our coordination efforts, theirs seemed to be just as good. But we pushed on.
About 10 minutes into the battle, we took up a new tactic. “Let’s head east,” someone suggested. That’s when we heard it. An unfamiliar voice that had been silent up until then clicked through the vent server. “They’re heading east!!” he said. Everything fell silent. Then, the same voice again. “Wrong vent server.”
Turns out, someone from the previous Ony raid had switched to his ally player before WG, but stayed on Vent with the group. Simultaneously, he was in an alliance vent server, relaying all of our precious tactical information to the enemy. The traitor! I knew one thing: this meant war.
Other than people cursing out the treacherous infiltrator, the vent channel grew quiet. We took to our keyboards to plan our next move and, with everyone informed via raid chat, we even started announcing false information on our mics. The enemy grew confused. And, apparently, very frustrated.
As we smashed through the Keep’s walls and tore down their defenses, that now-familiar, previously smug voice came through the vent loud and clear. Yells of defeat. We had beaten him at his own game in an epic battle of wit.
Which leads me to my conclusion: vent may not be the best choice for giant raid groups composed mostly of people who you don’t know. If you go this route, boot anyone who’s unfamiliar until they gain your trust. Also, allies suck (just kidding… except for this particular group of alliance!). For the Horde! 
Although this is the first case of this happening to me, I am certain it’s not all that uncommon with the availability of creating characters of both factions on a server. What stories do you have of cross-faction treachery?
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By magnaspawn on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
frikking epic XD
By bak00777 on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I have thought about doing this for City Raids, but doing the opposite, telling the opposing faction wrong info
By grandobsidian on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
that is epic. as much as i’m required to hate horde in all matters concerning wintergrasp, that is justice
By Nilrog on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Haha, that’s a really funny story. I had once thought of a possibility of this happening, but never seen it.
By Xanadrah on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Yeah….I was in this raid group trying to get [For The Alliance!], and we pwned Silvermoon, UC, and finally hit some resistance at Orgrimmar, but we still came through. The horde ambushed us at Thunder Bluff, and the raid wiped. As we were coming back to regroup, a rogue rez’d too quickly and killed our chances. So I had my friend next to me make a level 1 Tauren Warrior, and sent him in to relay information on their numbers to the raid. As he’s relaying me information, our RL is like “WTF? a Level 1 Tauren Warrior?”
By seiouslycomeon on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
SIXTH!!!
By Josh on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
on Scarlett Crusade the alliance doesn’t need help from two timing players to win, the horde side just sucks. Sadly though I am on the horde side. LF donations for faction change PST.
By Eric on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
gotta love Khaz Modan… it’s the top jackass server on http://wowjackass.com
By aadjed on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 4:46 am
At least once a week, someone in guild asks who those russians are in ventrilo. Never experiences something like this, but i only use it on guild raids
By littleraven on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 8:29 am
haha love it! alliance ftw! XD
By Dylan on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 8:46 am
thats really funny, but it just proves allies need to cheat and use deciet to win. like in my server how it takes 2+ allies to kill1 horde. its pretty sad, i was on my 78 paly and a 78 elemental shammy kept trying to kill me, when i kept destroying him, eventually brought in a balance druid and try and gank me while im killing 3 spiders (in argent vanguard starting to progress my way thru Icecrown) and they finally kill me, then it starts to do the i kill them they kill me kind of thing. they finally give up while im laughing at them. Therefore, alliance suck
By Epikphail on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Good job Dylan, good job. For the Horde!!!
By Zreena on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
OMG, thanks for sharing this, how awesomely EPIC.
By Mordraiv on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
@ pixiestixy
Well done on your groups determination and coordination… My little fail realm of Alterac Mountains (yes, the home of alliance guild Vodka) has absolutely 0 coordination horde side, as well as a lack of progression guilds (1 horde guild with 10 ToTGC cleared last week) we seem to lose WG about 3/5 of the time… usually because
A : WEEEEE Catapultz r uber!!
B: Latz all go south and keel dem towurz, forget dafence
C: WTF rofl stomped
D: RAWR tenacity means we can runs around and kills randoms
By Carlos aka Kershocker on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I’m from the Alliance, but that was just gay.
Here in Executus though, Horde is better in WG. They win about 3/5 of the times.
By Dulica on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
this is something I always thought would work, but seemed too dirty and underhanded to actually do! We have a guild vent and we mostly use it to fart around and make fun of each other and laugh like morons. With a little planning thrown in now and then!
By cocopuff on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
dylan@ cheat!?!?! well isnt that the pot calling the black cattle (or what ever the saying is) on my server (garona) when ever horde lose WG they log out with thier rank and in to 2 hours they log back on during batttle with the highest rank you can get in the beggining of the battle and in the first minet of the battle they allrady have 16 vehicles while we have to work on our rank and get the workshops back sometimes we lose some times we win even when the horde cheats like that another factor the large amount of stacks of tanacity i am convinced tahts the only reason we ever lose WG and why we allmost never fail to assult WG FOR THE ALLIANCE
By Alayea on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
@cocopuff
On Malfurion, it’s the exact opposite in regards to the exploit (yes, I’m calling it one).
By Urziel on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
On Ghostlands the only time the Alliance can make a serious attempt at keeping the fortress for more than one battle is on the weekends. And they use any exploit they can, because they have no honor, no code, and no coordination so we beat them regardless.
Lok’Tar Ogar! FOR THE HORDE!
By Hordies on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Lok´tar ogar! For The horde! For Warchief Thrall!
By Kiayateo on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
On Fenris, Wintergrasp seems to change hands almost everytime during the day and generally only at night (or off peak time) that it is successfully defended.
That being said, I’ve never been in a WG group that Defended Successfully or an attacking group that didn’t Win, so I dunno.
By Boneshock on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Lok’Tar Ogar!
By Andonur on Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
What a faggot that ally is. but in the end. all allys are faggots. FOR THE HORDE….!..,
Btw, u must have some rly big noobs on that realm, how can u lose all day long.