Advanced Battlegrounds Strategy Do you want to get a big heap of Honor Points in the Battleground ? Then here is the strategic guide that all high level players unconsciously use : Warsong Gulch . The object of this Battleground is to get the . . . Thing . The thing on the stick . With a picture on it . The importance of the thing is that if you get it back to your base , you get points . Points are good . If you are on the Alliance , you should grab the red thing with the black mark that looks like a hoof . If you are Horde , you should target the blue thing with a gold lion ' s head on it . Once you have the thing , retreat to your home base and " cap " it . This happens automatically so don ' t worry . If the enemy team has the thing , then KILL THE DUDE WITH THE THING ! and subsequently TAKE THE THING BACK TO YOUR BASE AND DEFEND IT BETTER NEXT TIME , YOU FOOL ! The People in the Battlegrounds are probably going to help you with the dude - killing , but don ' t count on it . Remember that dudes without the thing are not as important as the dude with the thing , except for dudes healing the dude with the thing . If you have the thing , RUN FOR YOUR LIFE . Arathi Basin . The object of this Battleground is to take an area with military force and convert it to your faction . This place then makes you resources and racks up your faction ' s points . To reiterate , Points . Are . GOOD . Taking a location requires you to fool around with a thing ( hooray ! ) . Change the enemy thing to your thing , and DEFEND THE FREAKING THING . If it changes back to the enemy thing , convert it back and defend it better . Note that what has been said about the appearance of things above should be applied here . Killing other people means that they have to wait for a rez or just run back to their body . The second option can be neutronised by taking their sigil . Not sure why . Remember , Points are good . Eye of the Storm . In Eye of the Storm , remember this : If the other team goes for the things in the middle , DO NOT TRY TO TAKE THE THINGS . Their strategy only works if you try to get the thing as well , so grab some towers . That way , they have wasted their time and now they have a useless thing that they can ' t do anything to . Always go for the towers , but if the call of the thing is too much , then make sure you have your group , and go get some things . Remember , you must get 1600 points ; not 16 or 160 , 1600 . Remember : POINTS ARE GOOD ! ! ! ! ! Also resource nodes cannot be mined , skinned , fished or picked . Repeat , CANNOT BE HARVESTED BY ANY METHOD ! Alterac Valley . The goal here , regrettably , does not involve things . It does , however , focus on killing people ( double hooray ! ) . Reduce the enemy reinforcement counter to zero . Kill the commander and you win automatically , but remember that the general dude is defended by enemy dudes and enemy NPCs . You can also reduce reinforcements by killing the captain dude , burning the towers and bunkers that enemy dudes hide in , freeing your three Wing Commander dudes , capturing the enemy dude ' s graveyard , capturing the two enemy mines will give you a reinforcement dude every 45 seconds , although the rate of dude - killing is many times that , collecting supplies to turn into some quest dudes , and killing players . Keep your reinforcements high and keep their reinforcements low , and you will get tonnes of honor points . Strand of the Ancients . This one is very different from the others . It requires WotLK , and also it has two rounds . You have to break through walls , which awards points . Points do not have to be accrued to win . To win , you must get a thing ( Note : this is not the thing that is important for the other BGs , but a different thing . Whole different biscuit . ) Depending on how fast you got your thing , you will win or lose . The defensive team must prevent the enemy attacking team from getting the thing , and they can and will kill you . Attacking teams have Siege Engines , and defenders have turrets , so FIGHT ! Remember , kids : Don ' t drink and drive in this BG . It will only make you look like a fool because you will be too unpredictable to be defended . And even massive siege machines need to be defended from enemy players . Isle of Conquest . Essentially combines Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley into one small lump of off - shore rock . Controlling various places will give new siege weapons to break down gates of places , give you a zeppelin , give you a Glaive Thrower weapon and you also get catapults . Again , killing the general wins you this place , and you also need to reduce their reinforcements down to zero . But capturing sites gives you weapons for blowing up stuff and mutilating dudes . Remember that the general dude is cowering in a citadel , so GET IN THERE AND KICK ' IM INNA NUTS ! Also , other players will try to take your stuff . Kill them if they do . And that ends the Advanced Battlegrounds Strategy guide ! Please feel free to add anything that you felt was missing . Please , however , leave the terminology as it is . This will make your lives easier . There other battlegrounds in development , and when we receive more intelligence on them , due to the committed " serious " writers of WoW wiki , you will here more .