Yesterday we played 13 games. After five wins we lost to some nab 2xwarrior/shaman/priest/lock team by simply playing really badly. Their lock got into range of Fontaine too easily so he got cursed etc and since we were playing Esko instead of Glas i had to do all the healing, and i can't keep someone up with 2 warriors and a lock on him. No decurse ftl, no cyclone ftl. Thirty fucking rating in one game. We were at 2309 and went down to 2279, and we had to get it all back again. I think we ended at like 2309 or 2307 i can't recall.
This weekend i will go to Linköping to stay with Murph for a few days, and i will also get the chance to visit Fontaine and Eldpojken. Will probably be a lot of fun!
I think we will play again tonight, we'll see.
Update: Nope, no 5v5. Instead we killed Gruul for the first time. They wiped n' wiped until yours truly stepped in and SAVED THE DAY. (True story)
Thursday 26 July 2007
Tuesday 24 July 2007
-0-;;
Yesterday was fun but annoying. No real teams were playing but Knockout had taken our rank 1 position when we weren't able to play, so we wanted it back. Slowly but surely we started climbing to beat their 2280 (we started at 2262) and the most points we got for a game was 6 from Burn in Fayaah (a 2xwarrior team that used to flame us about how hunters and druids are totally imbalanced :D).
We got 2281, then played a few more games thinking we'd like to get 2300, but at ~2290 we screwed up and lost 25 rating. That was the annoying part. It took us like an hour to get back to 2281, and we stayed there knowing Knockout wasn't going to play any more this week and thus probably having the rank 1 spot secured for this week as well, even though it was by 1 rating hehe.
I have been trying to find someone who can craft Resolute Cape. I'm trying to get as much armor as possible for use against 2xWarrior teams (i.e Take Random, but perhaps especially Bloodparasite since they still seem to stick both warriors on one target).
In other news, one of the biggest guilds on our server (Victorus te Saluto) disbanded yesterday when their officers went off to join the best pve guild on the server (Yoh). Could this result in some actual pve progress on the server? I do not know. Hopefully!
I have also been talking to some friends in Into Oblivion (Dassantwo's guild) and i might be joining them with my shaman to do some light pve when i feel like it and they feel like it. We will see though.
That's all for today i think. I added links to SG and Radikal which i think are two of the better (but also most well known) blogs about WoW-pvp right now.
We got 2281, then played a few more games thinking we'd like to get 2300, but at ~2290 we screwed up and lost 25 rating. That was the annoying part. It took us like an hour to get back to 2281, and we stayed there knowing Knockout wasn't going to play any more this week and thus probably having the rank 1 spot secured for this week as well, even though it was by 1 rating hehe.
I have been trying to find someone who can craft Resolute Cape. I'm trying to get as much armor as possible for use against 2xWarrior teams (i.e Take Random, but perhaps especially Bloodparasite since they still seem to stick both warriors on one target).
In other news, one of the biggest guilds on our server (Victorus te Saluto) disbanded yesterday when their officers went off to join the best pve guild on the server (Yoh). Could this result in some actual pve progress on the server? I do not know. Hopefully!
I have also been talking to some friends in Into Oblivion (Dassantwo's guild) and i might be joining them with my shaman to do some light pve when i feel like it and they feel like it. We will see though.
That's all for today i think. I added links to SG and Radikal which i think are two of the better (but also most well known) blogs about WoW-pvp right now.
Thursday 19 July 2007
Pants
14 games played last night. We lost a game to Fikagruppen who are IRL friends of Fontaine and Eldpojken. It was really close and came down to like 3v3 and they got their second BoP when the mage was on ~5% hp which made it a 2v1 which in the end and they won. Esko had some problems with his screen, it bugs out sometimes when he zones or alt+tabs, but after a while it usually starts working again. Had us worried though. We were lucky enough to get the bug on Nagrand twice so we could turtle until it started working again.
Second game vs Fikagruppen we played better and it was a pretty safe win. Hats off to them though, most of them are great players and they're a fun team to play against. Sadly enough they stopped queuing after that game.
We stopped getting games at 2262 rating i think so we quit for the night, not sure when we will play again next time.
Second game vs Fikagruppen we played better and it was a pretty safe win. Hats off to them though, most of them are great players and they're a fun team to play against. Sadly enough they stopped queuing after that game.
We stopped getting games at 2262 rating i think so we quit for the night, not sure when we will play again next time.
Tuesday 17 July 2007
Pleh
First of all: Yay i finally bothered getting 70 with the shaman and transfer it to vashj. I couldn't resist as i had like 1200g and ~600 bandages on her after leveling. The shaman is called Chï.
Now the gear grind begins, and i'm gonna try to get some arena points before tomorrow's update.
Second of all, we played some more games yesterday with Esko instead of Glas and i have to admit i was kind of nervous. We had gotten so comfortable with the other setup, and Esko hadn't played for over a week. Worrying about his performance was kind of unnecessary though as it turned out i was the one who sucked that day hehe. First two games i played really bad, i usually need to warm up before we start playing if i haven't played 5v5 for a few days by doing some 3v3 or something, but i didn't this time and it was a big factor in us losing our first two games.
When both me and Fontaine are used to having Glas there for backup healing, meeting lock/war/priest/pal/mage before we get a chance to adjust isn't great. They have so much cc on font with fears/tongues/cs/spell lock that i really need to be on top of my game with LoS'ing and kiting, but i wasn't. Lost two games to a team much lower than us, going back 47 rating. I pulled it together though and we won 12 straight games (two versus the ones we lost to). Our stats for the week are 23 - 2 with 2238 (iirc) rating.
Knockout has been playing more it seems and both them and Toy Soldiers have taken our rank one spot once each, but i think we got it back now. They will probably play tomorrow though so one of them will probably take it again. We won't be playing because Glasmastarn needs to keep his 30%, he's on vacation. Both those teams are PvE naps btw and have really sick gear to prove it. Majin, Knockouts warrior, has Cataclysm's Edge as an example. Fucking ouch.
Now the gear grind begins, and i'm gonna try to get some arena points before tomorrow's update.
Second of all, we played some more games yesterday with Esko instead of Glas and i have to admit i was kind of nervous. We had gotten so comfortable with the other setup, and Esko hadn't played for over a week. Worrying about his performance was kind of unnecessary though as it turned out i was the one who sucked that day hehe. First two games i played really bad, i usually need to warm up before we start playing if i haven't played 5v5 for a few days by doing some 3v3 or something, but i didn't this time and it was a big factor in us losing our first two games.
When both me and Fontaine are used to having Glas there for backup healing, meeting lock/war/priest/pal/mage before we get a chance to adjust isn't great. They have so much cc on font with fears/tongues/cs/spell lock that i really need to be on top of my game with LoS'ing and kiting, but i wasn't. Lost two games to a team much lower than us, going back 47 rating. I pulled it together though and we won 12 straight games (two versus the ones we lost to). Our stats for the week are 23 - 2 with 2238 (iirc) rating.
Knockout has been playing more it seems and both them and Toy Soldiers have taken our rank one spot once each, but i think we got it back now. They will probably play tomorrow though so one of them will probably take it again. We won't be playing because Glasmastarn needs to keep his 30%, he's on vacation. Both those teams are PvE naps btw and have really sick gear to prove it. Majin, Knockouts warrior, has Cataclysm's Edge as an example. Fucking ouch.
Friday 13 July 2007
Rank 1!
Very small update now, just wanted to say we went 11-0 today and landed on 2204 rating, making us rank 1 in the BG and rank 10 in the world according to latest geekboys update!
Glasmastarn is going to Malta for a week now so we're not going to be able to play the setup we've been playing the last few days. That's kind of sad since we've gotten so comfortable with it and it's all working out very well. On the other hand Esko will get some playtime now (he was going to play today but he gave his spot to Glas so he could get some games in this week and hopefully keep his 30%).
Tomorrow is a big big day.
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX OPENS!
Me and Esko had our tickets weeks ago, of course, and will be spending the day having a Harry Potter marathon (or as many of the movies we have time for after Esko gets back from work). It will be awesome. Harry Potter is awesome. Yeah.
Glasmastarn is going to Malta for a week now so we're not going to be able to play the setup we've been playing the last few days. That's kind of sad since we've gotten so comfortable with it and it's all working out very well. On the other hand Esko will get some playtime now (he was going to play today but he gave his spot to Glas so he could get some games in this week and hopefully keep his 30%).
Tomorrow is a big big day.
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX OPENS!
Me and Esko had our tickets weeks ago, of course, and will be spending the day having a Harry Potter marathon (or as many of the movies we have time for after Esko gets back from work). It will be awesome. Harry Potter is awesome. Yeah.
Wednesday 11 July 2007
A great night of 5v5!
At least Tuesday didn't let us down! We queued up with our druid/lock/pal/war/priest setup and in the first game we met Einherjers. In season one they held first rank for quite a long time and were almost consistently top five.
We used to play them a lot with our old setups of 3heal/mage/war and 3heal/hunter/war, both of which aren't very good. We always had fun matches and we all enjoyed playing them, even if our stats were like 25 - 1 in their favor.
This time though, we won. And we did so 6 times in a row. They run what has been called the ultimate 5v5 setup (or fotm setup as Hubris calls it) of mage/eshaman/war/pal/priest, and they have the best racials for it (dwarves, gnomes). First they tried taking down Eldpojken while we went for Nedsat (their priest, and we wen't for him every game) but they couldn't get him down, and it left me free to Mana Burn. They tried going for me aswell, and even going for Fontaine but Eld could keep their mage under controll very well with fears and constantly cursing their whole team. Also my dispelling was better than ever so he had to spend too much time sheeping Dassan. In one game i had more damage done with him, just casting MB's.
We also faced Coinflip a few times, and they were not really a threat since they play rogue. Dassan was on him until he died every game so he really didn't get much done.
We finished at 2150 rating, second place in the BG and undefeated for the night. It felt great, especially since the communication between me and Fontaine was so good. We have been practicing it a lot in 3v3 and it has really payed off.
I was a little disappointed when Ehlo (Einherjer's paladin) started whining on IRC about how we were running an easy mode setup which took no skill, cyclone was imbalanced (resto druid imba) and accused us of switching around with setups until we found easy mode.
Cause pal/priest/rdruid/lock/warrior is free wins guaranteed. It's bound to become standard. For sure. Yeah. Right.
Whatever, this was fun and i'm really proud of how the team played last night. Good job all!
PS. Name change
We used to play them a lot with our old setups of 3heal/mage/war and 3heal/hunter/war, both of which aren't very good. We always had fun matches and we all enjoyed playing them, even if our stats were like 25 - 1 in their favor.
This time though, we won. And we did so 6 times in a row. They run what has been called the ultimate 5v5 setup (or fotm setup as Hubris calls it) of mage/eshaman/war/pal/priest, and they have the best racials for it (dwarves, gnomes). First they tried taking down Eldpojken while we went for Nedsat (their priest, and we wen't for him every game) but they couldn't get him down, and it left me free to Mana Burn. They tried going for me aswell, and even going for Fontaine but Eld could keep their mage under controll very well with fears and constantly cursing their whole team. Also my dispelling was better than ever so he had to spend too much time sheeping Dassan. In one game i had more damage done with him, just casting MB's.
We also faced Coinflip a few times, and they were not really a threat since they play rogue. Dassan was on him until he died every game so he really didn't get much done.
We finished at 2150 rating, second place in the BG and undefeated for the night. It felt great, especially since the communication between me and Fontaine was so good. We have been practicing it a lot in 3v3 and it has really payed off.
I was a little disappointed when Ehlo (Einherjer's paladin) started whining on IRC about how we were running an easy mode setup which took no skill, cyclone was imbalanced (resto druid imba) and accused us of switching around with setups until we found easy mode.
Cause pal/priest/rdruid/lock/warrior is free wins guaranteed. It's bound to become standard. For sure. Yeah. Right.
Whatever, this was fun and i'm really proud of how the team played last night. Good job all!
PS. Name change
Tuesday 10 July 2007
Is no one playing on Sundays?
We have always considered Sundays and Tuesdays the main arena days since Sundays are generally boring and you have nothing to do and Tuesdays are the last days before point update. In season one we talked to other teams and they were thinking along the same lines. Apparently, things have changed.
We started queuing at like 18:00 on Sunday and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally we get a game and win 2 rating. And it continued like that for a long long time until we got around 10 points from Cataclysm. We met them once more and then more 1-3 rating teams until we came up against Bloodparasite.
Bloodparasite is yet another 2xWar/Sham/Priest/Pala windfury-fest team. We won the first game in which their paladin DC'd, and lost the second time we faced them. Me and Fontaine still need to work on LoS'ing during the kite and communicating properly while doing so, cause versus these kinds of teams who can destroy me if they get a lucky proc i can not afford to miss a heal. With a shaman ES'ing, a priest's mana burns to dodge and fears to break and paladin HoJ's at critical moments it's hard to get heals out so when he can they really have to land.
I hope everyone will be online tonight so we can play. Tomorrow im picking up the s2 chest (which will put me at 478 resilience /flex), and next week i'll probably get the wand if anyone is interested lol.
We started queuing at like 18:00 on Sunday and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally we get a game and win 2 rating. And it continued like that for a long long time until we got around 10 points from Cataclysm. We met them once more and then more 1-3 rating teams until we came up against Bloodparasite.
Bloodparasite is yet another 2xWar/Sham/Priest/Pala windfury-fest team. We won the first game in which their paladin DC'd, and lost the second time we faced them. Me and Fontaine still need to work on LoS'ing during the kite and communicating properly while doing so, cause versus these kinds of teams who can destroy me if they get a lucky proc i can not afford to miss a heal. With a shaman ES'ing, a priest's mana burns to dodge and fears to break and paladin HoJ's at critical moments it's hard to get heals out so when he can they really have to land.
I hope everyone will be online tonight so we can play. Tomorrow im picking up the s2 chest (which will put me at 478 resilience /flex), and next week i'll probably get the wand if anyone is interested lol.
Saturday 7 July 2007
Guests!
Won some lost some gained very little rating ended up at 2021. That's todays 5v5 report. I have asked Fontaine to write some stuff for the blog cause that would be fun i guess and you will hear all the bad stuff about me that i won't write myself!
Update: Fontaine wrote some stuff about today's games, and here it is for you all to enjoy!
Today was yet another day in the arenas! We were playing our tri healer setup with druid as a third healer with only warrior + warlock dps First we had a nice smooth run were we went from 2011 to 2060 or so only loosing once to team potestas, with them playing a setup including a feral druid zomg, cheers to them, but then we faced Your Nightmare! They were playing warrior, mage, hunter, shaman and paladin. We played them 3 games and none of the games were even tight =(, we were overrun in three straight games. Their damage was just crazy, our lock was totally shut down the entire fight, and our priest went oom immidiatly with the combo of pet + vipersting. I am though very impressed with their hunter beeing able to dish out that much dmg, never dying with his pet and always keeping that sting on our priest (, and also from having such high rating in 2on2 with the hunterclass! After these losses we exchanged our druid for esko the hunter, unfortuneatly we never played them again :(.
I feel abit sorry for team potestas though, after us loosing to teams i belive we really shouldn't, mostly due to communication problems between me and chidorii. We ended up playin team potestas over and over again, which really had a though time playing us. After grabbing another 30 points or so from them, we went back to loosing against lower ranked teams, only to grab another 30 points from potestas again ^^. I personally think their warlock is among the most annoying to play against in this battlegroup, and as soon as their druid gets abit better timing on his feral charge and cyclones i expect them to perform better.
Tomorrow is sunday!! The best arena day of the week! Hopefully we can play alot more of the top teams tomorrow, and it will be a blast! See you in arenas!
-Fontaine
Update: Fontaine wrote some stuff about today's games, and here it is for you all to enjoy!
Today was yet another day in the arenas! We were playing our tri healer setup with druid as a third healer with only warrior + warlock dps First we had a nice smooth run were we went from 2011 to 2060 or so only loosing once to team potestas, with them playing a setup including a feral druid zomg, cheers to them, but then we faced Your Nightmare! They were playing warrior, mage, hunter, shaman and paladin. We played them 3 games and none of the games were even tight =(, we were overrun in three straight games. Their damage was just crazy, our lock was totally shut down the entire fight, and our priest went oom immidiatly with the combo of pet + vipersting. I am though very impressed with their hunter beeing able to dish out that much dmg, never dying with his pet and always keeping that sting on our priest (, and also from having such high rating in 2on2 with the hunterclass! After these losses we exchanged our druid for esko the hunter, unfortuneatly we never played them again :(.
I feel abit sorry for team potestas though, after us loosing to teams i belive we really shouldn't, mostly due to communication problems between me and chidorii. We ended up playin team potestas over and over again, which really had a though time playing us. After grabbing another 30 points or so from them, we went back to loosing against lower ranked teams, only to grab another 30 points from potestas again ^^. I personally think their warlock is among the most annoying to play against in this battlegroup, and as soon as their druid gets abit better timing on his feral charge and cyclones i expect them to perform better.
Tomorrow is sunday!! The best arena day of the week! Hopefully we can play alot more of the top teams tomorrow, and it will be a blast! See you in arenas!
-Fontaine
Friday 6 July 2007
Wogatron
First of all, i just got back from the movies. Me and my brother took my dad to see Transformers and it was fucking awesome. It had the mandatory cheesy one-liners, crappy dialog etcetera but it didn't matter at all since it was coming from robots. If you read Transformers, watched Transformers and played with Transformers as a kid, you're gonna love it.
PvP blog. Right. We played 5v5 again today. We had the whole team online for once and could run our two best setups. We started with lock/hunter/priest/pal/war, going 6-0 before Esko had to go eat. Glas took his place and we took another 6 straight wins before we had to quit since i was heading out and some of the others were going to go PvE. Roter (aka Isprinsessan from Full Patàge) wanted to give TK a try, so they grouped with another guild on the server and got Void Reaver to like 30%.
We hit 2k rating today (2011 i think), and hopefully we won't go below it again since we have sworn to not play any of our crappier setups since it just makes us all mad.
PvP blog. Right. We played 5v5 again today. We had the whole team online for once and could run our two best setups. We started with lock/hunter/priest/pal/war, going 6-0 before Esko had to go eat. Glas took his place and we took another 6 straight wins before we had to quit since i was heading out and some of the others were going to go PvE. Roter (aka Isprinsessan from Full Patàge) wanted to give TK a try, so they grouped with another guild on the server and got Void Reaver to like 30%.
We hit 2k rating today (2011 i think), and hopefully we won't go below it again since we have sworn to not play any of our crappier setups since it just makes us all mad.
Wednesday 4 July 2007
A minor update
We played some 5v5 last night and went undefeated until we again met a double warrior+tri healer team. Our setup was dru/pal/priest/war/hunter, which is a totally useless setup. We can't kill anything and we can't keep them from drinking as all our healers have to either kite or heal almost constantly. It's outlast vs outlast but they can drink and do like double our damage. We lost three games and 46 rating to them. It's sad, since i believe we usually farm that team if we run a better setup.
After getting my shaman to like 66.7, we decided i was not going to reroll shaman. Instead, Glasmastarn will be doing that as it makes a LOT more sense for our lineup, and we don't have to bring in someone new. Nothing is set in stone though so we'll see what happens. Unless he can ebay something it will take eons to level and gear up, even if he takes the shaman i was leveling.
No 2v2/3v3 being played atm, Ambergo (a rogue with whom i first played 2v2, but the 90% warrior/pala setups in our bg at that time made it kinda boring as we couldn't get past 2300) who was the motor behind our 3v3 team left without saying anything to us, which was kind of weird i guess but Ambergo is the craziest russian i know so i don't really mind. Don't know what to fill the spot with now. We were thinking maybe a mage or something but there are almost no decent pvp mages on Vashj. Esko might join, he doesn't have an active 2v2 or 3v3 team.
After getting my shaman to like 66.7, we decided i was not going to reroll shaman. Instead, Glasmastarn will be doing that as it makes a LOT more sense for our lineup, and we don't have to bring in someone new. Nothing is set in stone though so we'll see what happens. Unless he can ebay something it will take eons to level and gear up, even if he takes the shaman i was leveling.
No 2v2/3v3 being played atm, Ambergo (a rogue with whom i first played 2v2, but the 90% warrior/pala setups in our bg at that time made it kinda boring as we couldn't get past 2300) who was the motor behind our 3v3 team left without saying anything to us, which was kind of weird i guess but Ambergo is the craziest russian i know so i don't really mind. Don't know what to fill the spot with now. We were thinking maybe a mage or something but there are almost no decent pvp mages on Vashj. Esko might join, he doesn't have an active 2v2 or 3v3 team.
Sunday 1 July 2007
Blah
I have been leveling the shaman a bit and she's at lvl 64.5 and going strong. I have to say though, leveling by yourself on a server where you know almost no one is not a lot of fun.
Me and Lubbo (pve-affliction lock with whom i play 2v2 and 3v3) played some 2v2 games late last night, and went undefeated until we met this rogue/druid team called Lakedon pre. They were decent players, nothing exceptional, but they resisted EVERYTHING. In the first game for example Zhai resisted 14 fears, 2 death coils and countless other things.
I logged on Sylvanas to talk to them and Zhai said they were both sporting 300+ shadow resistence. There was really nothing we could do, we couldn't do any damage to them. I guess Lubbo will have to start stacking up spell penetration if we want to be competitive in 2v2 nowadays. We lost twice to them.
It was 4 in the morning and i was playing shit but Lubbo wanted to keep playing so we did, and started losing more. We went like 2-2 or 2-3 against this Rogue/Mage team who would sap->cs->sheep->blind me and kill Lubbo, and i couldn't get my game together and use the trinket right. I trinketed sheep instead of waiting for devour magic and then getting blinded etc.
We also went 1-1 to a well geared 2xRogue team. First game was on Blade's Edge which is by far the best map vs rogue teams because of all the kiting options, but in the second game we got Ruins. I had to trinket sap to save lubbo from their opening cooldowns (at least one was hemo which means premed->cb evisc twice) and we tried to kite for a while, but then i got two blinds in between which i only had time for like a shield, a mending and a flash heal. Both were full duration, is there no diminishing returns on blind?
Tonight we will play some 5v5 for the first time this week, we'll see how it gooes.
Update: I had big internet problems today so i could only play a few games. Penicillin played the rest and as he hasn't played 5v5 or even holy in a long while it did not go well. 11-7 for the night and rating went down 29 points to an even 1900. What can i say, don't get Glocalnet. Ever.
Me and Lubbo (pve-affliction lock with whom i play 2v2 and 3v3) played some 2v2 games late last night, and went undefeated until we met this rogue/druid team called Lakedon pre. They were decent players, nothing exceptional, but they resisted EVERYTHING. In the first game for example Zhai resisted 14 fears, 2 death coils and countless other things.
I logged on Sylvanas to talk to them and Zhai said they were both sporting 300+ shadow resistence. There was really nothing we could do, we couldn't do any damage to them. I guess Lubbo will have to start stacking up spell penetration if we want to be competitive in 2v2 nowadays. We lost twice to them.
It was 4 in the morning and i was playing shit but Lubbo wanted to keep playing so we did, and started losing more. We went like 2-2 or 2-3 against this Rogue/Mage team who would sap->cs->sheep->blind me and kill Lubbo, and i couldn't get my game together and use the trinket right. I trinketed sheep instead of waiting for devour magic and then getting blinded etc.
We also went 1-1 to a well geared 2xRogue team. First game was on Blade's Edge which is by far the best map vs rogue teams because of all the kiting options, but in the second game we got Ruins. I had to trinket sap to save lubbo from their opening cooldowns (at least one was hemo which means premed->cb evisc twice) and we tried to kite for a while, but then i got two blinds in between which i only had time for like a shield, a mending and a flash heal. Both were full duration, is there no diminishing returns on blind?
Tonight we will play some 5v5 for the first time this week, we'll see how it gooes.
Update: I had big internet problems today so i could only play a few games. Penicillin played the rest and as he hasn't played 5v5 or even holy in a long while it did not go well. 11-7 for the night and rating went down 29 points to an even 1900. What can i say, don't get Glocalnet. Ever.
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