As the title says, we never reached gladiator. We kept on running into teams we had very little practise agains't. We topped off at 2134 but then got beaten back down to 20xx, it was getting really really late so we both agreed on stopping.
Next day i logged on to a Challenger rank atleast, ah well next season i thought to myself. I had 5k arena points and about 36k honor banked. I rushed and bought the silk belt and the s3 gloves, feeling a bit sad though since i didn't have the materials for the gloves, also i was lacking some WSG marks to buy the bracers...
I used a huge amount of the day farming Primals and gold to get myself all the enchanting materials waiting, all the time waiting for Nakedsnake to get online so we could start pushing for 1850, seeing as both of us are very anxious to get the hand on the new weapons, unlike everyone else who seems to be buying the new set pieces first. Nakedsnake never got online, and i did verbally abuse him when we talked thursday evening, he blamed work and terrible traffic, slack i say. So we started thursday very shortly after i got online to work on the 350 rating needed for our weapons. Queues were far from terrible actually, upto 10 mins max, and mostly around 7 mins. The first game started with the gate opening, and the scoreboard instantly showing a "Draw" with no enemies inside.... right. So we started off with a 9-0 win streak until we had a silly loss agains't druid/warlock, we met alot of disc priest/rogue teams, a setup which we almost got on farm now id say, also met a pretty crappy mage/rogue team a few times.
Oh yea, id like to give you an example of how much Nakedsnake really sucks cock.
The situation: hunter/shaman in arena which me and naked have farmed for 2-3 games already by always going for the hunter while CCing the shaman. Naked then for some fishy reason thought it would be nice to "keep them guessing" by going for the shaman, result: 17 rating lost, after questioning nakeds manhood through more verbal abuse we queued again and and took our 17 rating back from those guys.
When we hit our top, 1774, we suddenly started meeting a druid/lock team from skullcrusher again and again, we beat them one single time, and prayed to allah to never see their faces once more..... yea right, they beat us all the way back down to 1729, this is when we decided to call it a night, 5 straight games agains't the same team that we just couldn't seem to beat was a bit too much, and we didn't wanna risk going too low. Though once we stopped i was really happy, the score ended 26-10 and we had gotten alot of practise. So today i hope naked will be online again so we can push for the last rating upto our s3 weapons!
-Artanias
Friday, 30 November 2007
Thursday, 15 November 2007
The Green beast from Holland
So yea, last night after me and naked was fighting WAY too many lock teams, i was starting to get really really cranky. Now we have been talking alot about how much we want a 3v3 team, however we would really like to go with a priest if we could, problem is finding a skilled and free disc priest these days are next to impossible.
So today Maix(zheros new pvp resto druid) whispered me joking if we couldn't boost him a bit in arena, i knew he was joking, but i talked to naked about starting a 3v3 team with him, naked agree we could do it, so i asked Maix if he was up, obvious answer really. As you might have guessed, "The green beast" comes from Maix incredible gear, going into arena with a fresh lvl 70 druid who has 7k hp and 20 resilience was quite a gamble wouldn't you say?
While i used the prep time for the first couple of matches gloating at Maix gear we actually did pretty ok. Maix(zhero) being a Veteran in general pvp obviously knew what to do most of the time, i once asked for a cyclone on a shaman only to notice cyclone was on 0.5 sec before i asked, so mate big thumbs up, thats impressive work from a fresh lvl 70.
So 2.3 has hit, am i happy? FUCK YEA! Ritual of refreshment is so damn nice, cant explain how much i love the spell, not to mention the table is just pwnage in itself, the better ice barrier is kinda noticable. I can also see a slight improvement in my frostbolt dmg, so ye, 2.3 is awesome, daily BG quests and daily heroic quests are just awesome, now im not as broke as i used to be.
On another note, i lost a shitload of honor yesterday, i wanted to buy one single Runed ornate Ruby, the epic dmg gem through honor, problem was i clicked the item once and got the error "That item is busy" so i clicked it multiple times afterwards only to have 5 gems in my bags suddenly, leaving me with 799 honor points :(
Immediately made a ticked so i really hope a GM can revert it.
Now the topic of the month, hunters in 2.3, compared to everyone else i only got one thing to say, STOP WHINING TARDS, your all a bunch of motherfucking crybabies, yea hunters got buffed, and are now pretty troublesome, but i used to beat decent MM hunters without the use of my pet or iceblock, something had to be done really.
The rogue buffs: I LOVE EM, seeing as i run mage/rogue in 2v2 with Nakedsnake i couldn't be anymore happy really. At the moment we got 2137 rating, running a bit up a down all the time, mostly encountering a mirror team who are both humans just detecting naked and kicking his ass..... i hate humans so much >.<
We still make mistakes and lose some stupid matches, but up until now we havn't faced anything that was completely impossible to defeat. Because of this i told him i wanna push for gladiator rank.
Now according to http://www.arenajunkies.com/calculator/ we need about 2208 rating and im absolutely sure we can manage that, just with a hole lot of practise, and less stupid mistakes(for example some rogue letting me try to solo a SL/SL lock while he was busy searching for a stealthed druid)
Anyway, ill update in approx 1 week, having reached gladiator or not.
-Artanias
So today Maix(zheros new pvp resto druid) whispered me joking if we couldn't boost him a bit in arena, i knew he was joking, but i talked to naked about starting a 3v3 team with him, naked agree we could do it, so i asked Maix if he was up, obvious answer really. As you might have guessed, "The green beast" comes from Maix incredible gear, going into arena with a fresh lvl 70 druid who has 7k hp and 20 resilience was quite a gamble wouldn't you say?
While i used the prep time for the first couple of matches gloating at Maix gear we actually did pretty ok. Maix(zhero) being a Veteran in general pvp obviously knew what to do most of the time, i once asked for a cyclone on a shaman only to notice cyclone was on 0.5 sec before i asked, so mate big thumbs up, thats impressive work from a fresh lvl 70.
So 2.3 has hit, am i happy? FUCK YEA! Ritual of refreshment is so damn nice, cant explain how much i love the spell, not to mention the table is just pwnage in itself, the better ice barrier is kinda noticable. I can also see a slight improvement in my frostbolt dmg, so ye, 2.3 is awesome, daily BG quests and daily heroic quests are just awesome, now im not as broke as i used to be.
On another note, i lost a shitload of honor yesterday, i wanted to buy one single Runed ornate Ruby, the epic dmg gem through honor, problem was i clicked the item once and got the error "That item is busy" so i clicked it multiple times afterwards only to have 5 gems in my bags suddenly, leaving me with 799 honor points :(
Immediately made a ticked so i really hope a GM can revert it.
Now the topic of the month, hunters in 2.3, compared to everyone else i only got one thing to say, STOP WHINING TARDS, your all a bunch of motherfucking crybabies, yea hunters got buffed, and are now pretty troublesome, but i used to beat decent MM hunters without the use of my pet or iceblock, something had to be done really.
The rogue buffs: I LOVE EM, seeing as i run mage/rogue in 2v2 with Nakedsnake i couldn't be anymore happy really. At the moment we got 2137 rating, running a bit up a down all the time, mostly encountering a mirror team who are both humans just detecting naked and kicking his ass..... i hate humans so much >.<
We still make mistakes and lose some stupid matches, but up until now we havn't faced anything that was completely impossible to defeat. Because of this i told him i wanna push for gladiator rank.
Now according to http://www.arenajunkies.com/calculator/ we need about 2208 rating and im absolutely sure we can manage that, just with a hole lot of practise, and less stupid mistakes(for example some rogue letting me try to solo a SL/SL lock while he was busy searching for a stealthed druid)
Anyway, ill update in approx 1 week, having reached gladiator or not.
-Artanias
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Iceblock Trainable in 2.4
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Now, when i first read this i almost jumped off my chair(which woulda sucked since i was doing a test in school), finally! dragons breath in arena, my dream came true. It would be imba and frost spec will be no more, but then it hit me. Fire still wont be viable, why you ask ? Ill explain it.
First of all the damage:
Yea in pve, fire kicks the living shit out of frost, so why not in pvp? simple answer: resilience.
Frost has shatter, and a water elemental. Shatter gives you super high crit even on high resilience targets. Fire however, has combustion, but while this might be nice in a 1on1 fight, its not worth a whole lot when you need on-demand burst in a 5v5 match. Because combustion, sadly lives on RNG, even though it WILL guarentee 3 crits, its impossible to say when those will happen, a ranged frost nova is just so much more superior in that regard.
Next, the water elemental doesnt give a damn about resilience, mine hits for approx 730-750 on average with its waterbolts, that is just about 300 dps, meanwhile i can cast my frostbolts, sheep, nova, CS. Fire just doesn't have that huge luxury. Also, next to rogues, fire mage were the class that critted the most pre TBC, rogues now however have AR/prep as a spec that doesnt rely alot on critical damage, fire still does.
Mana/survivability:
Even with iceblock fire will still have lesser survivability than frost(as it should be) ice barrier, superior snares, will still keep frost up higher.
Now mana, fire is extremely mana ineffecient for arena compared to frost, a single dragons breath costs 700 mana, that is HUGE(compared to WE that costs about 340 does way more damage, has a ranged nova and lasts quite a bit longer), blast wave is almost the same, and as a "golden talent" isnt really powerfull compared to an improved CoC. First of all the mana cost is almost the same, damage is close to the same, but CoC snares for longer, and isn't affected 2 times by resilience.
Blast wave both get the direct reducement in crit damage AND the reduced dmg from dots(ignite) not to mention blizzard did the "awesome" thing to change the animation to a minsized frost nova. Taking this into consideration, and the already obvious mana issues mages have in arenas, fire is really gonna be lacking.
Now, how to fix it ?
Damage:
Without buffing pve fire to the point that its imba, i think the only option is to remove the dmg reduction on ignite through resilience(with it being a dot) and some sort of "crit through resilience" talent, a stackable debuff through improved scorch? And no, i really dont want a Phoenix or a Fire elemental pet, so dont even think about it! Of course, this would need HUGE tweaking, to be succesfull or even balanced.
Mana/survivability:
Honestly, i dont feel fire needs more survivability than what is given through a trainable icblock, its supposed to be high damage and less survivability, so its better to leave it at that.
Mana however, a reducement on the mana costs of blast wave and dragons breath would help alot, especially because Dragons breath is such a great spell, and its gonna be used as much as possible to help interrupt healers. Blizzard also says that they will buff our mana issues in longer fights, the new evocation will obviously also help on this problem, and a buffed mana gem is gonna go some way.
Now even though i just proven that fire still will be inferior, im still gonna try it out, just as i think 80% of arena mages will, ill try it out, and see how far it will go.
Oh yea no funny pictures for the moment, im still in school waiting to start a math lesson, ill post some if i got new ones at home :)
-Artanias
Update: Pictures! they are, however all from the same player, Eleuteurios :P
This guy is as fucked up as a french whorehouse, but as funny as an entire season of friends.
Now, when i first read this i almost jumped off my chair(which woulda sucked since i was doing a test in school), finally! dragons breath in arena, my dream came true. It would be imba and frost spec will be no more, but then it hit me. Fire still wont be viable, why you ask ? Ill explain it.
First of all the damage:
Yea in pve, fire kicks the living shit out of frost, so why not in pvp? simple answer: resilience.
Frost has shatter, and a water elemental. Shatter gives you super high crit even on high resilience targets. Fire however, has combustion, but while this might be nice in a 1on1 fight, its not worth a whole lot when you need on-demand burst in a 5v5 match. Because combustion, sadly lives on RNG, even though it WILL guarentee 3 crits, its impossible to say when those will happen, a ranged frost nova is just so much more superior in that regard.
Next, the water elemental doesnt give a damn about resilience, mine hits for approx 730-750 on average with its waterbolts, that is just about 300 dps, meanwhile i can cast my frostbolts, sheep, nova, CS. Fire just doesn't have that huge luxury. Also, next to rogues, fire mage were the class that critted the most pre TBC, rogues now however have AR/prep as a spec that doesnt rely alot on critical damage, fire still does.
Mana/survivability:
Even with iceblock fire will still have lesser survivability than frost(as it should be) ice barrier, superior snares, will still keep frost up higher.
Now mana, fire is extremely mana ineffecient for arena compared to frost, a single dragons breath costs 700 mana, that is HUGE(compared to WE that costs about 340 does way more damage, has a ranged nova and lasts quite a bit longer), blast wave is almost the same, and as a "golden talent" isnt really powerfull compared to an improved CoC. First of all the mana cost is almost the same, damage is close to the same, but CoC snares for longer, and isn't affected 2 times by resilience.
Blast wave both get the direct reducement in crit damage AND the reduced dmg from dots(ignite) not to mention blizzard did the "awesome" thing to change the animation to a minsized frost nova. Taking this into consideration, and the already obvious mana issues mages have in arenas, fire is really gonna be lacking.
Now, how to fix it ?
Damage:
Without buffing pve fire to the point that its imba, i think the only option is to remove the dmg reduction on ignite through resilience(with it being a dot) and some sort of "crit through resilience" talent, a stackable debuff through improved scorch? And no, i really dont want a Phoenix or a Fire elemental pet, so dont even think about it! Of course, this would need HUGE tweaking, to be succesfull or even balanced.
Mana/survivability:
Honestly, i dont feel fire needs more survivability than what is given through a trainable icblock, its supposed to be high damage and less survivability, so its better to leave it at that.
Mana however, a reducement on the mana costs of blast wave and dragons breath would help alot, especially because Dragons breath is such a great spell, and its gonna be used as much as possible to help interrupt healers. Blizzard also says that they will buff our mana issues in longer fights, the new evocation will obviously also help on this problem, and a buffed mana gem is gonna go some way.
Now even though i just proven that fire still will be inferior, im still gonna try it out, just as i think 80% of arena mages will, ill try it out, and see how far it will go.
Oh yea no funny pictures for the moment, im still in school waiting to start a math lesson, ill post some if i got new ones at home :)
-Artanias
Update: Pictures! they are, however all from the same player, Eleuteurios :P
This guy is as fucked up as a french whorehouse, but as funny as an entire season of friends.
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