Saw this vid yesterday and I thought it was pretty entertaining. Not much in the way of editing at all, and I wasn’t a big fan of the rated arena clips, but the 1vn arena and duels were entertaining and 1vn arena isn’t something you see too often. Music was pretty emo so if that’s a problem for you just be warned. Overall good watch imo, worth checking.
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Well I’ll start by talking about Eviscerate X (10), a continuation of the series I left off in TBC.
When I last talked about this video it was in February. I can’t be specific about how far progressed I am at this point, because I don’t want to set any specific date for release. As I said last time I talked about this, in the past I’ve regretted rushing video production in the past and I’m standing by that. I’m trying my best to keep only the best clips for this video.
When I talk about getting quality scenes, I can kind of refer to Garthd’s recent video. Yes, I can find 1v1’s at the hodir dailies against players that die in a stun lock, but these are the kind of clips I immediately trash. I mean no offense to him because he’s a good player and I liked his past videos, but this video is a good example of exactly what I want to avoid and why I’m taking so long. Conversely, watching Gforce really gives me hope, kind of showing that 1v1 can still be epic and entertaining.
Unfortunately, world PvP is extremely difficult to find. When I started I thought, even though Cho’gall is bereft of alliance (about 8000 horde 80s, 1000 alliance 80s), I could go to the alliance if they won’t come to me by doing a lot of city PvP. While it’s still possible, Blizzard has made it so that when you attack anyone within a city, a guard immediately attacks you, making city PvP very difficult (especially as a rogue, because this takes away re-stealths). Not only that, as a rogue you lose the opener in city PvP because alliance has to attack you to flag themselves. Daily hub PvP isn’t what it used to be because every daily area has flying mounts (wtb Isle of Quel’Danas scenario).
I know it’s going to be a while, but I am making progress, however slow. Here’s what you can expect. Expect grenades. Expect health pots. Expect Metallica. Expect duels against the best players I can find. Expect bg 1vns. Expect world pvp 1vns. Even if this kind of video is dead, I’m not giving up and I will finish it eventually. It is still a while away though.
Arenas Vol. VI
I didn’t realize it but I should have enough clips for another arena video within the next week or two. Basically my process with these arena videos is that I just to fraps all the arena I do, go through them every so often and hang on to the clips I think are entertaining. Every few months I have enough to make a video, so once I do I edit them on and off for about a week and put it out. This series will probably focus a lot more on arena than duels from now on as I’m going to start saving and setting up most frapsed 1v1 with Eviscerate X in mind. You can expect this arena vid in the next week or two.
Isle of Conquest
Blizzard will be releasing a new BG in the next content patch. More information can be found here.
This BG seems pretty interesting, somewhat of an updated AV. It will also be the first to introduce (more…)
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I find a lot of rogue/mages (including my own until about a week ago) are struggling with the rise in druid/plate teams. While these teams will never by any means be easy, once you have the right strat they feel very much beatable. The use of deadly poison makes the “train the druid and cc the dps” strat very much viable. I’ll briefly go over some strategy but this video should give you a better idea of what I’ve found works against them. Also included a few reaction time clips because I’ve gotten a few people questioning if I react to stuff or just guess, I don’t really care what people think but the clips are just here for fun anyway.
Poisons: First things first, you want to have deadly poison on one hand and wound on the other. IMO wound should be on offhand if possible, so that you can shiv it on if it falls off, and it also allows you to shiv cripple.
Druid Warrior: What we do is have our mage run in and get a nova on the warrior. Open at this time with cheap shot and have your mage deep freeze. This will allow for a clean ToT shatter on the druid with your overkill opener. After the sheep, the warrior will likely trinket –> bladestorm. If the warrior tries to save trinket through 3 sheeps and 2 freezes the druid should die. Once he trinkets, get ready for bladestorm. Feint if possible and immediately get the fuck out. Regardless of your health, once you get away find a safe place and eat / bandage situationally.
Your mage should have enough time here to kite, block the storm if necessary. Wait for Sheep DR to expire if possible and get a full sheep, if for whatever reason your mage runs into trouble cheapshot the druid and blind the warrior. The warrior should, at this point, eat a full blind, 2 sheeps and a deep freeze possibly. This should be enough time to kill the druid. If you are going to die to thorns, don’t, bandage and eat, mage can evocate if necessary. Save your cloak for nature’s grasp or if thorns is about to kill you.
In terms of damage rotation on the druid, I suggest cheapshot –> kidney shot –> imp counterspell — > garrote –> evis. Save at least one vanish for the bladestorm. Don’t forget, mage also has nova to keep that warrior off of you. Resetting is always possible if things get sloppy so long as your mage still has the mana and hp to kite. A frost mage can live for a very long time against druid warrior alone.
Druid / Deathknight
A bit more tricky than druid warrior. I notice most DK / Druids will let the rogue beat on the druid, deathgrip them when possible and do their best to shut down the mage, letting thorns wear the rogue down so that a swing or two will finish them off. What you want to do is if the deathknight rushes your mage, you can cc them as far away as possible from the rogue. Mage should focus on cc off the start while the rogue opens and goes through an initial damage rotation on the druid. Mage should then be able to catch up and finish the druid. It’s really difficult due to lichborn, but the mage can use nova, deep freeze, and rank 1 frostbolt to control the deathknight and take as little damage as possible during this time. Eventually you hope to get a sheep off. If the DK trinkets at any point, blind as soon as possible.
I talked about Druid / Ret here.
Phishy Solo’s Onyxia
Congrats to Phishy (great pvp’r as well) who just posted this video on wcm solo’ing onyxia! You can find his explanation below, something I didn’t think I’d get to see at level 80, cool achievement for the class! Best of luck to all those out there looking to complete this as well.
Hi. This is simply a pve video showing how the rogue class can solo the Onyxia encounter.
Blizzard may have nerfed the “untouchable” rogue by greatly reducing the amount of dodge we get from agility, but they did make a key change to (more…)
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Saw this come out today, definitely worth a watch if you like arena videos. Fast and smooth gameplay, not too long, and the a/v quality is great. The high points for me in terms of play was easily the decision making and strategy being pretty top notch and fast. The clips selected were all interesting, its also always fun to see what people can do with shadowmeld. The only downside in terms of gameplay for me was the use of a lot of prediction, on the blind in the first rogue duel for example or on rogues in arena.
I’m really starting to think predicting can be effective, especially against or when playing as double dps, where people like to trinket fast. I suppose if you gouge after cs or ks if trinkets are up religously it can be very effective situationally (and that’s been demonstrated here or even in unmercy’s past two videos). At the same time I think in a lot of situations (playing in extending games with and against another healer) these strategies really shouldn’t be used, or at least used sparringly, due to the fact that it can backfire. Anyway, I’ll shut up now, check the vid out!
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