Last day of the Week

Just like we do every Tuesday, we got together and played some games today. We played war/pal/priest/lock/drood for the first time and it went pretty well. We lost some games vs a bloodlust/lock/spriest nuke team and one of the only teams with a decent hunter in our BG, who kept spamming snake trap which when coupled with the shaman's rank 1 ES spamming really messed up Fontaine's healing. We won more than we lost vs both of them though.
Dassan hadn't slept more than like 6 hours in the last two days so he wanted to go to bed, and as the supportive and friendly group of pals we are we didn't let him.


We were at like 1970~ rating which put us at #1 in our battlegroup, but instead of stopping like maybe we should have, we kept playing and lost 24 rating to some team, i can't recall which one. We beat them and took back like 11 or something, but then we came up against take random, a 2xWarrior/priest/pal/sham team.


Double warrior with 2-3 healers seems to be more popular than ever, it feels like 50% of the teams we come up against run some version of double warrior (even met one with a doomkin, which was freakin awesome, of course). Take random are different for a couple of reasons. First, the warriors are good, which is uncommon in these kinds of teams. Both of them play gnome females wielding Stormherald's, which as you can probably guess packs one hell of a punch.
We figured we'd go for the priest, since obviously we can't go for one of the warriors, the shaman is hella tough and the paladin will never go down +get's infinite mana with two healers on him and it leaves their priest free to mana burn.


The map for both games was Ruins of Lordaeron. They put one warrior on me and one on Eldpojken. Barri, their priest, didn't' have to heal himself except when his shadow tree was pummeled so he kept burning Glas and Fontaine, and they couldn't really dodge since Glas has to juggle roots and cyclone on both warriors and Fontaine has to keep in LOS of me and Eld.
In the first game their priest wen't down first, but at that point all healers on our side were low on mana while their healers could rotate drinking throughout the whole game. The end game power of double warrior which i often saw while playing with Testify really shone through here and they won the game.


Second game was pretty much the same, but i got less counter burns off on Barri and their damage was way more intense through the whole game, and they got both first and last blood. We lost 16 in the first game and 14 in the second, leaving us at 1929 rating i think.


Take random has an incredible record with like one loss this season, and they had similar last season (we took them twice in a row the first time we met them, when their record was something like 46 - 2 iirc). With all these noob teams running the easy to play line ups (2x warr, lock/spriest nuke etc) it's easy to forget just how powerful it can be when really good players run cheesy setups. It's like giving cheat codes to a pro gamer.