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Attack Tol Barad and succeed in 10 minutes or less.

Tips:  This achievement can only be earned when your team is attacking, not defending (just like it states in the achievements requirements).

Remember that the attacking team needs to fully capture all three locations (Ironclad Garrison, Warden's Vigil, and Slagworks)  in order to win the battle.  Because this achievement requires a win in under 10 minutes, there is no need for players to attempt to knock down towers.  Knocking down the towers adds time to the battle that is unneeded for this achievement.  Additionally, if players are occupied with destroying towers, they are not assisting with capturing the three locations.  The more people your team has to help with any of these locations, the better the chance they have of capturing each.

Your team should remain as grouped up as possible regardless of where they may be or may be headed to.  This does not mean just one large group.  Although there are many ways this battle can be won while attacking, it is typically best to keep larger sized groups.  This could mean one huge group and two smaller ones, three somewhat equal sized groups, or two large groups and a small group used as a defending group, for instance.

There should always be some players at each of the three locations.  If one of the areas is left unguarded it can be taken easily by the enemy and will take extra effort to get it back.  Depending on the size of your team, you may want to leave about 10% (very rough number) on defense at a particular location.  Typically, the areas that you will leave a small group to defend is an area that your team just battled at and was able to capture.  The enemy will usually leave this area once defeated and attempt to defend another location.  The defenders need to communicate if they are not able to hold off the enemy and need assistance.  It is also a good idea to communicate incoming enemies regardless because it gives your team an idea of how many less players they will have to deal with at the other locations.

The enemy team typically will only "zerg" one location at a time.  If the other two locations are captured and defended, the remaining attackers need to get to the last base and fight with all they have.  Players can often anticipate which areas will be zerged next.  Try to look out for and be aware of this.   You will likely not be able to form a strategy before the match as you do not know which locations the enemy will be.  The battle for Tol Barad tends to involve a lot of on-the-fly coordination and team work3.

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Complete the Tol Barad achievements listed below.

Defeat the Pit Lord Argaloth.

Tips:  Pit Lord Argaloth is a raid boss located in the Tol Barad/ Baradin Hold raid instance.  The instance is located just outside of Baradin Hold in the Northwestern corner.

For this fight, the raid should separate into two groups, one on either side of Argaloth.  One tank and at least one healer should be placed with each of the groups.  He performs a Meteor Smash which deal 200,000 damage spread evenly amongst targets in front of him (40,000 damage per player if spread amongst 5 players).  Consuming Darkness is a damage over time ability that deals between 2,925 and 3,075 initial shadow damage as well as damage over time. 

When Argaloth's health is at 66% and 33% he will perform a Fel Firestorm ability.  Argaloth will cast fireballs that land in patches on the ground.  Players that stand in the patches will take damage at about 8k + per tick, so it is imperative that all players are constantly dodging the patches of fire on the ground.  He shoots enough fireballs that most of the floor will be covered.  This phase lasts for 15 seconds and the players can resume as usual.

DPS must be able to kill the boss within 5 minutes or he will berserk and wipe the raid.

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Get 10 honorable kills at the Ironclad Garrison, Warden's Vigil, and Slagworks.

Tips:  For this achievement, you will want to be preferably where a large battle is taking place so that you can earn your kills quickly.  That is, whether you're defending or attacking Tol Barad, you should be playing offensively and not attempting to defend locations.  Try to track your kills if possible so that you know when to leave a location.  Once you get your honor kills at one location, move to another.  Once you receive your honor kills there, move to the last location. 

You do not have to get the killing blow on an enemy to get credit for the kill (or healers would probably never get this achievement), just be in a raid with and near enough to a player or players that kill an enemy.


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Destroy 20 deployed Siege Engines.

Tips: To complete this achievement you will need to be on the defending team.  Players on the attacking team can use Siege Engines to destroy the three spires/ towers in order to lengthen the match.  There is a Western tower, an Eastern tower, and a Southern tower.  Players ride the Siege Engines up the these spires where they can deploy and the Siege Engine will automatically continue to attack the tower without a player inside of it.

You may wish to stand at a tower and wait for Siege Engines to arrive and then destroy them.  The more people you have with you for this the better because the enemy will likely attack you if you are attacking the vehicle.  You can also check your map to see where Siege Engines may be headed.  They appear as small grey circles on your map and they will generally be moving.

You do not have to destroy the vehicle by yourself and you do not have to destroy all 20 within a single battle.


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Win 100 battles for Tol Barad.

Tips:  You can be on either the defending team or the attacking team for this achievement, your team just has to be successful.  This achievement will likely take a long time to get.  There is only a battle once every two hours and your team has to successfully win a match for it to count towards this achievement.  The more battles you enter the faster you will obtain this achievement.  Remember, winning the battle for Tol Barad depends on how well your team plays at a whole and you cannot always control what the outcome will be.


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Win the battle for Tol Barad.

Tips:  You can win the battle by either successfully defending Tol Barad or successfully attacking Tol Barad.  This achievement depends mostly on how your team works as a whole rather than what you do as an individual.  However, the better you play as an individual, the better your team's chances are of winning. 


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Destroy a tower in Tol Barad.

Tips: You will have to be on the attacking team to get this achievement.  Siege Engines are needed to destroy towers, players cannot use their own personal abilities and attacks to destroy towers. 

Grab one of the vehicles (check out the MAPS page for Siege Engine locations) and drive it to one of the three towers.  There may be enemy players defending the towers so be prepared for that.  If other players on your team are attempting to destroy a particular tower, you may wish to go to that one and help if you believe you have time.  Park the Siege Engine so that it is touching the tower.  You can jump out of the vehicle and have it auto-attack the tower.  This is useful for fighting off enemies that are attempting to destroy you Siege.


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Destroy 3 deployed Siege Engines in a single Tol Barad battle.

Tips: You will need to be on the defending team during the battle in order to get this achievement.  That's because only players on the attacking team can drive and deploy Siege Engines.

Siege Engines can be driven pretty much anywhere in TB, and you can attempt to destroy one whenever you see it.  The more people attacking the Siege, the quicker it will die.   Although players drive vehicles to various locations, you will most likely see them near the towers as enemy players try to destroy the towers with them.   You could attempt to guard the towers and look for ones that are being attacked.  This way, you should have a good chance of running into one and can attempt to destroy it.

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