How to kill or protect the flag carrier at Warsong Gulch

• 2014-04-13 10:38:18

From this basic description of how to play Warsong Gulch, it sounds like the flag carrier is a fairly important role. That's because it is. Most of the effort in Warsong Gulch comes down to trying to kill or protect the flag carrier.

If you're protecting your flag carrier, you have a few guidelines to follow. If you can remove debuffs or heal the flag carrier, you want to do so. The entire enemy team is trying to kill this person; making sure the FC is healthy and hale goes a long way toward protecting him.Keep him clear of movement effects. When the enemy team swarms the FC, kill their healers if you can. If the enemy DPS is mowing your FC down too fast, you might need to use crowd control and other effects to stymie them.

If you're trying to kill the enemy flag carrier, start with movement reduction effects. Most permanent CC is broken when you do damage, and the whole point is to kill the FC. However, kill their healer first. If you don't kill the healer first, the FC will either receive heals and be nigh unkillable, or they'll plant the flag while you're trying to figure out what went wrong. Keep the movement reduction effects active on the FC so they can't get away, but do your best to kill that healer.