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Take 50 graveyards in Alterac Valley.

Tips:  Graveyards are not very difficult to assault.  Any enemy guards protecting the flag are pretty weak and easy to kill.  It's mainly a matter of competition from your teammates who may also be trying to capture the flag, or nearby enemies that are trying to control it. 

If your main goal is to assault graveyards you can run directly towards one when the game begins.  As Snowfall is the closest neutral graveyard, you may want to attempt to be the first person there to capture it.  Then you could try to run for the next closest graveyard (Stonehearth for horde, Iceblood for alliance).  Often, you can get to the next flag before it's been assaulted.  To assault a graveyard it must be neutral or enemy owned.  If you defend a graveyard that your team owned and the enemy attacked, you will get credit for defending the graveyard not assaulting it.  You have to click on the flag and allow it to channel for it to count as an assault.  If you are interrupted you will have to start over and click on it again.

If you and another teammate are running towards the same graveyard, you can attempt to let them grab aggro from the enemy guards so that you can make the assault without interruption. 


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In a single Alterac Valley battle, assault a graveyard, defend a graveyard, assault a tower, defend a tower and slay someone in the Field of Strife.

Tips:  This achievement may take a few attempts to complete.  You may find a particular system or order that you prefer. 

One way that this can be achieved is to run directly toward a graveyard and assault it (you must go through the 8 second capture timer).  The closest one that either team is able to capture is Snowfall Graveyard.  To assault a graveyard just click on it and wait for your capture to complete.  Once you assault this, you run to the nearest tower or the nearest tower that isn't captured.  To capture the tower, run up to the top and click on the flag.  Once this is captured, you focus on defending a tower.  To defend a tower it must have been assault by the enemy but not yet fully captured.  There are add-ons that you can get that allow you to see timers for each of the towers and graveyards.  You may be able to sneak in your Field of Strife kill while doing these.

Another way to do this is by running straight for a tower.  This may be wise because there are only 4 towers and if your team successfully captures them without the enemy defending, you will not get a chance to assault one.  Once your tower is capped, then you can attempt to either assault a graveyard or defend a tower.  Graveyards are fairly easy to assault, especially ones that your teammates are avoiding (you may make your team upset but you get credit for the assault which is what matters for this achievement).  Defending towers is slightly more tricky so you may want to keep you eye out for any opportunity to do this.  Chances are that if you've gone and assaulted an enemy tower, there will be a friendly tower available for you to defend.


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Complete 100 victories in Alterac Valley.

Tips: If you are short on Alterac Valley wins, single queue for Alterac Valley along with one other battleground that you need achievements in or just want to play while you wait for AV to become available.  AV queues can be long so it's usually preferable to play another battleground in the mean time.

If you attempt to do other Alterac Valley achievements, chances are very high that you complete those before you achieve your 100 victories.


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Win Alterac Valley.

 Tips: This achievement can probably be obtained within your first few Alterac Valley matches, if not the first one.  This achievement depends more on your group as a whole as opposed to you as a single player.  You would no be able to achieve a victory without the help of your teammates even though your contribution can greatly alter the outcome of the match.


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Win Alterac Valley while your team controls both mines.

Tips: To capture a mine, a player or two needs to kill the boss in the back of the mine.  There will be several mobs within the mine on the way to the boss.


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Obtain a Frostwolf Howler.

Tips: The Frostwolf Howler is an epic riding mount that is only available to horde players.  It is a PvP reward mount that is obtainable for 50,000 honor from Gruunda Wolfheart in Alterac Valley or from Jekyll Flandring in Alterac Mountains.


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Win Alterac Valley without losing a tower or captain. You must also control all of the Alliances towers.

Tips:  This is a horde achievement and the alliance equivalent is "Stormpike Perfection".  This achievement requires that you defend and protect your team's captain, something that most players don't typically do.  It shouldn't take your entire team to do this, just a few good PvP players and maybe a healer or two.  The more help you have, the better.  However, this can be achieved with just a few people participating.  

If you are able to get the assistance of some teammates, run in to Iceblood Garrison to protect Galvangar and wait for the enemy team to arrive.  Usually the enemy will not expect people to be guarding the Captain so, hopefully, you will only have to battle with a small number of enemy players.  Essentially you do your best to keep them from killing your Captain.  The scenario you are hoping for is that you are able to wipe the enemy so that they are unable to attempt to kill your Captain again in an organized group.  If possible, leave a few players in with your Captain until the game is over, just in case the enemy attacks again.

In the meantime, you will have players running North towards the enemy base to capture their towers as usual.  The people that were protecting your Captain should be close enough to your own team's towers to attempt to easily defend them.  As well, you will need to protect your towers that are far South.  This can be done by simply having players on complete defense, or by using recall trinkets (obtained through and AV quest line).


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Gain exalted reputation with the Frostwolf Clan.

Tips:  Horde players gain reputation for the Frostwolf Clan by competing in Alterac Valley matches as well as by completing quests.  This is a somewhat easy reputation grind.


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Gain exalted reputation with the Stormpike Guard.

Tips: Alliance players gain reputation with the Stormpike Guard by competing in Alterac Valley matches as well as by completing quests.  This is a somewhat easy reputation grind.


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In Alterac Valley, kill 50 enemy players in the Hall of the Stormpike (Alliance), Hall of the Frostwolf (Horde).

Tips:  This achievement is completed when playing defense.  Alliance would stand inside the Hall of Stormpike and horde would stand inside of the Hall of the Frostwolf.  When enemy players come to kill the General, you attempt to kill the enemy players.  

This achievement is typically only doable when there are several other players on defense as well.  Otherwise, you will most likely be outnumbered.  However, if successful, you can complete this achievement rather quickly because there are usually quite a few enemy players attempting to kill the General, and you can kill the same player more than once.


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Obtain a Stormpike Battle Charger.

Tips: The Stormpike battle Charger is an epic riding mount that is only available to alliance players.  It is a PvP reward mount obtainable for 50,000 honor from Gaelden Hammersmith in Alterac Valley or from Thanthaldis Snowgleam in Alterac Mountains. 


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Win Alterac Valley without losing a tower or captain. You must also control all of the Hordes towers.

Tips:  This is an alliance achievement and the horde equivalent is "Frostwolf Perfection".  This achievement requires that you defend and protect your team's captain, something that most players don't typically do.  It shouldn't take your entire team to do this, just a few good PvP players and maybe a healer or two.  The more help you have, the better.  However, this can be achieved with just a few people participating.  

If you are able to get the assistance of some teammates, run in to Stonehearth Outpost to protect Balinda and wait for the enemy team to arrive.  Usually the enemy will not expect people to be guarding the Captain so, hopefully, you will only have to battle with a small number of enemy players.  Essentially you do your best to keep them from killing your Captain.  The scenario you are hoping for is that you are able to wipe the enemy so that they are unable to attempt to kill your Captain again in an organized group.  If possible, leave a few players in with your Captain until the game is over, just in case the enemy attacks again.

In the meantime, you will have players running South towards the enemy base to capture their towers as usual.  The people that were protecting your Captain should be close enough to your own team's towers to attempt to easily defend them.  As well, you will need to protect your towers that are far North.  This can be done by simply having players on complete defense, or by using recall trinkets (obtained through and AV quest line).  


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Win Alterac Valley in 6 minutes.

Tips:  You will need to have the majority of your team participating in this achievement in order to complete it.  Most people are afraid that it won't work and will cause a turtle.  Even if you do get enough players to cooperate it may not be successful.  However, it can be very simple.

Essentially, you are going to want a good majority of your teammates to run directly towards the enemy General.  Alliance would travel South to Drek'Thar and Horde would Travel North to Vanndar Stormpike.  You will need tanks and healers to battle the General. 

You may not have time to wait for towers to cap, graveyards to cap, or to kill the Captain.   It still doesn't hurt to send a couple players to capture towers and graveyards, especially to prepare for the case that the Blitz doesn't work.   Blitz fails are currently quite common, don't be discouraged. 

Before players go and charge the General, as many members as possible of your team should quickly gather in front.  Some people may be lagging behind and these people may be your needed healers or tanks.  It is always good to run in as tight as a group as possible.  Once people are fairly positioned, the tank can pull the boss and any Warmasters that are guarding him.  DPS should focus solely on the general and not the Warmasters.  As long as the tank survives and the dps is fair, the boss should go down rather quickly. 

Remember, it is very easy to run out of time and you only have 6 minutes.  Keep in mind at all times that you must act very quickly.


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In Alterac Valley, kill an enemy in the Field of Strife before they dismount.

Tips:  You can get this achievement by killing an enemy yourself or having a teammate near you kill them.  The best way to do this would be to wait in the Field of Strife (located in the center of the map) for an enemy to run through on their mount.  Preferably you would like to have a friend or two with you so that you can cause enough damage to the enemy before they dismount and attack back.


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Loot the Autographed Picture of Foror & Tigule in Alterac Valley.

Tips: This item drops off of dead players in Alterac Valley.  When you click on a player to loot their insignia, there is a chance that others items may drop as well, including the Picture of Foror and Tigule. 


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Defend 50 towers in Alterac Valley.

Tips:  You are only able to "defend" your own team's towers.  That is, recapturing an enemy tower after it has been defended by them only counts as a capture, not a defense.  To defend a tower, you have to wait for an enemy to attack one.  There is a capture time of 3 minutes so you have until then to defend it or else it will be destroyed.

Although any class can achieve this, defending flags is probably easiest for classes that can stealth, or even go invisible.  This is because these classes can typically get right up to the flag without being detected.    The main thing is to focus on the flag.  If you have several teammates with you, go directly for the flag and allow your teammates to battle with the enemy players. 

If you can stealth in and there is just one enemy guarding the flag, it may be possible to sneak in behind a wall and click on the flag without being detected.  If you are a class that has a pet or a mage with mirror images, you may be able to use these to redirect an enemy's focus off of you long enough to capture the flag which takes 8 seconds if you are not interrupted.

This may be one of the most difficult achievements to obtain and possibly one of the lengthiest as well.   There are only four towers and sometimes the enemy does not attack them all.  The ones that are attacked may be heavily defended or you may have competition from players on your team also attempting to defend them.  To earn this achievement it may help at times to be somewhat selfish.  That is, you may want to concentrate solely on defending a tower (clicking on the flag) while your teammates fend off the enemy.

You can get lucky in some battles where, for instance, just one enemy player is running back and forth between two towers capturing them, giving you enough time to defend one while they capture the other.  Essentially, you will have to keep an eye on this.

It also helps if you have a recall trinket which you obtain through an AV quest line.  Keep an eye on the towers and focus on defense and you will find that this achievement is not as difficult as it may appear.


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