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Try to stay together with a pack of allies, as there is strength in numbers. In Alterac Valley, some enemy NPCs (such as the two generals) are extremely tough and can only be defeated by a large group of players.
If you find yourself unable to proceed in the map because you've been cut off from the main force and are surrounded by the enemy team, you need to rejoin the main pack. You can try waiting until your teammates have captured a forward graveyard, at which point you can attack the enemy, die, and be revived at that forward graveyard. You can also try sneaking around the enemy.
Controlling graveyards is very important to your team's success. Control over the graveyards assists your team's advance across the map. Once you've captured a graveyard, your allied players can now spawn there when they die. Eventually, if you capture the graveyards near the enemy town, you can use them as a base of operations to launch your final assault.
If you die near your starting tunnel after the AV match has begun you will be ported to the nearest graveyard your faction controls - not resurrected in the tunnel.
Graveyards are defended by NPC guards from the faction that controls them. To capture the graveyard, you have to click on its control flag located nearby. One player should "train" the flag's guards away from the flag while another player right-clicks it to begin the capture process. If you're attacked during this time, the process will be interrupted and you will have to start over again. Once the process is complete, the flag becomes "contested" and both sides are notified.
When you receive an alert message that the graveyard is being taken over, you need to send some team members to save it. Since the graveyard was under your control, all you need to do is go back and click on the flag and complete the channeling time to recapture it. The enemy will try to prevent you from doing this. If you don't have enough people, you might not be able to recapture the graveyard.
Towers contain allied NPCs and have guards equipped with bows at the top that attack enemy troops from long distance. Towers are very effective in supporting your defense. Once a tower is destroyed, it will remain destroyed for the rest of the match. In the center of the tower rooftop is a flag. The enemy has to get to the top and capture the flag in the same way as the graveyard. After several minutes, if the tower hasn't been recaptured, the tower is destroyed.
When you kill enemy players, enemy guards, and certain creatures, they will drop money and quest items. These items can be turned in to activate special events, such as summoning powerful NPCs to assist your side. Some of the items can only be turned in if the NPC that collects them has spawned or is currently alive. The items you gather, such as Storm Crystals, Stormpike Soldier's Blood, and Armor Scraps, will disappear when you leave the battleground. These events are more likely to occur in longer games. They aren't used as often as they have been in previous versions of Alterac Valley.
Your side's NPC captain gives everyone a powerful buff every so often. The captain also controls various guards. If your captain is slain, you will no longer receive the buff and you will have fewer allied NPCs to help your cause. For this reason, you need to protect your captain whenever he or she is under attack. Make sure you alert your team that the captain is in danger and organize a defense.
If you kill the enemy captain while your captain is alive, you will get a free captain buff.
Upon control change , Stormpike NPCs will spawn if an Alliance player landed the killing blow and Frostwolf NPCs will spawn if a Horde player landed the killing blow.
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