The Grey Valley Stronghold was defended without any suspense.
Naturally, Glory Capital's Stranglethorn Vale wouldn't have any problems either. Gale Legion was the one being attacked, so they were basically attacking themselves. It was a self-scripted, self-directed performance, and the result was completely up to them.
Drizzle Court's Western Wilderness was barely defended. Apparently, they had suffered quite a bit of losses, but in the end, they had still defended the Stronghold.
In addition to Ruling Sword's Black Sea Coast Stronghold, these were the four Strongholds that had been defended.
Peerless City's Tanaris was taken by Wings of Dawn. This was a surprising result. After all, the two guilds were about the same in terms of strength. Now, no one would think of Peerless City as a branch of Drizzle Court. Wings of Dawn had become the owner of one of the six Strongholds. Whether it was in terms of benefits or image, they were considered the winners of this week's city war.
Gale Legion also lost their Stronghold. Recently, The Capital of Glory and Ruling Sword had been in the limelight, and people seemed to have forgotten about Blood Red War Flag.
They didn't usually show their strength, but they were very strong. Their core elite group was only second to The Capital of Glory. They were much stronger than Gale Legion, who relied on The Capital of Glory to rise to the top. Even though Gale Legion defended with all their might, they still lost their Stronghold.
From now on, only Ruling Sword still had two Strongholds in their hands.
The remaining four were in the hands of The Capital of Glory, Drizzle Court, Blood Red War Flag and Wings of Dawn.
Apart from Peerless City, the worst off was probably Glory Capital. They had invested so much power, but not only had they failed to take over the Black Sea Coast, they had also lost the Barrenlands. They had suffered a double loss, so Sorrowless's heart must have collapsed.
However, Lu Li wasn't worried that The Capital of Glory would fight with him next week. Compared to not being able to take the Black Sea Coast, losing the Barrenlands was a more serious problem.
The Barrenlands were adjacent to Orgrimmar. It was a holy leveling ground for Horde players and was the most popular location in the Horde. Many players of other races would come here to form parties and grind. Sorrowless would probably reclaim the land next week, no matter the cost.
Next week would be a new month, and according to tradition, the officials would announce a new Stronghold map.
Ruling Sword alone occupied two Strongholds. They were in the limelight, but Lu Li's heart was actually collapsing. He held the list of equipment losses that Sky Moon had calculated, and only felt that a large pile of gold coins had grown small wings and were flying away … away!
This time, the battle was too fierce, and they lost dozens of pieces of equipment.
Even after adding the loot from The Capital of Glory, there was still a huge gap. As for the gold coins that they won from defending the Stronghold, they might be able to make up for the loss of equipment to a large extent, but they couldn't be turned into equipment anytime soon.
His equipment had dropped by a level. What could he use to fight the Black Dragon Princess, Onyxia?
However, this was how Stronghold battles worked. They fought for their reserves. Every Stronghold battle had at least a dozen or so pieces of equipment. If they were lucky, they could earn more equipment. If they were too strenuous, they could only bear the losses.
This was the reason why veteran guilds were so powerful.
Just their core management team alone was more than Ruling Sword's elite team.
Ruling Sword currently only had four to five hundred elite players, while The Capital of Glory had thousands or even tens of thousands of players who could form a team to clear the Molten Core Nightmare Difficulty. This was a slowly accumulated foundation over a decade. If Ruling Sword didn't take so many First Clears, they wouldn't have the qualifications to fight with these veteran guilds for Strongholds.
The equipment dropped from Nightmare Difficulty Instance Dungeons that weren't First Clears couldn't be compared to First Clears, but they could still do it more often.
Ruling Sword could barely clear the Molten Core 10 times a week, while The Capital of Glory could do it 200 times.
Even if it wasn't a First Clear, it would still be enough to crush people. As for whether or not they could take the entire Molten Core Instance Dungeon, they could only kill the first few Bosses. Ruling Sword couldn't compare to The Capital of Glory, so Xiao Mo didn't even bat an eye when he threw away these pieces of equipment.
"Right now, the First Clear team is lacking equipment. Those level 60 players who have finished the Molten Core's cooldown this week, please send me your level 60 Epic equipment. I'll return it to everyone as soon as I'm done," Lu Li said helplessly.
This was quite a helpless move. Collecting equipment from within the guild would lower everyone's confidence in the guild. If they had to borrow equipment after just one Stronghold battle, what would they do in the future? It wouldn't be long before everyone knew about this, and the other clubs would also know how to deal with Ruling Sword.
However, Lu Li wasn't going to do something like that to the fatty.
As for borrowing equipment from Water Fairy, this wasn't an option either. However, it was impossible to borrow so much equipment at once. Drizzle Court had also lost a lot of equipment in order to defend the Western Wilderness.
In the future, there would be new changes to the chariots of the Stronghold system. The defending side could only buy half of the chariots of the attacking side.
In order to defend the Stronghold, the defending side would inevitably lose more equipment. This was also the reason why everyone was so keen on attacking other Strongholds. Otherwise, why would they attack others for no reason? In fact, some of the clubs that attacked the Strongholds themselves knew that they had no chance of taking the Stronghold.
"In this Stronghold Battle, we suffered heavy losses," Lu Li said. He knew that he had to say something. At least, he had to let these people have full confidence in the guild. "However, The Capital of Glory's losses were even worse."
"Their red cannonballs were worth more than the equipment we lost. Moreover, they also lost a lot of equipment. What number one Guild Club in the game? They were still defeated by us bumpkins. Now that we have two Strongholds, we are the number one Guild Club in the game."
"We've only been established for half a year. All we lack is time. You are all veterans of the club. You must have confidence in yourselves."
Lu Li often went to universities to listen in on two courses. One of them seemed to be called the Art of Speaking, and the other was called Speech and Eloquence. In fact, no matter what it was called, it could actually be classified as the Art of Deception. After listening to these courses, coupled with his long period of experience, Lu Li's speaking skills were getting better and better.
"Boss, I have three pieces of Legendary equipment on me. If you need them, take them," a guild player said.
"I have a level 60 Legendary equipment here. The attributes are not bad. See if there are any brothers in the First Clear team who can use it. Don't even think about returning it." In the heat of the moment, no one had the spare brain cells to care about how much a piece of Legendary equipment was worth.
With someone speaking up, there was naturally no awkward silence.
One piece, two pieces, all the attributes were pasted to Lu Li. Lu Li chose a few dozen pieces of equipment from the hundreds of pieces of equipment.
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