Theres no limit to what you can ask but please understand if i don't have a super awesome answer for it. Please keep this civil as i'm just trying to help here.
Keeping this simple and open ended.
I will not answer software related questions though.
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Theres no limit to what you can ask but please understand if i don't have a super awesome answer for it. Please keep this civil as i'm just trying to help here.
Keeping this simple and open ended.
I will not answer software related questions though.
One question that i think many would like to discuss is the target prioritizing when playing 4dk+1healer.
I find myself losing sometimes to what i think is, picking the wrong target. I manly open on lock/druid if it exists one, try to DG the lock before he gets a portal up, in that case he have a high chanse of dying. Pritty much alwats swap to warriors that reckstorming cause they go down like shit.
Thoughts/experience?
I have found that videos help more than anything else. I myself have learned so much from videos and then putting it into action than anything I have tried. Granted none of those videos were mutiboxing videos, but they translated pretty easily.
I am not talking about the ton of chessy "highlight" videos out there. I am talking about videos that show what the player is thinking and tactics involved. More specific I am talking about pvp players who stream, and record their streams for others that can be watched at anytime. You get to see all the wins as well as all of the losses.
I admit I have copied their UIs, tatics and strats and sometimes their live streams can be entertaining. They are my secret to my ratings,pvp success and also my paid carries.
You said you did 2 DKs + 1 ret. What tacs are you using here? How do you counter RMP? RLS? FMP? TSG? Are you going for the healer @ the start? Or do you start on a DPS to force defensive CDs from the healer, then switch quick and gib him?
EDIT: found my answer
Do you use Death Coil?
Do you play aggressive or defensive?
Do you change you tactics from beginning of match to the end of the match?
Does your healer worry about anything other than you staying alive? i.e. interrupts
What do you do when you play the same team over and over again?
What is your most important/used spell?
Thank you for your help. Your awesome.
It REALLY depends on comp.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emo?
For me the following normally holds true.
Kill a healer if its shaman/priest healer. Kill a reck'd warrior. Sit on DK after it blows AMS since it's defensive cooldowns are crap. Chain silences on one healer while you kill the other. Firemages need to die... like ASAP. Other than that clothies are my primary targets or boomkins. Silences never go into holy paladins due to bubble + trinket + aura mastery.
I do stream 3's sometimes but i hate streaming 5's. My FPS drops too much unless i KILL my video settings. I will be streaming my 3's i am going to run with my shaman i think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fat Tire
RMP: Paladin sits on mage, dks kill priestQuote:
Originally Posted by Nikita
RLS: Swap between shaman and lock or just kill shaman
FMP: AMS for when going for a kill otherwise tunnel the priest
TSG: CC paladin and sit DK unless warrior recks... you can also try and global the paladin when he pops out from behind a corner with all your burst.
Its a mixture of what you talk about.
The most important thing vs shaman teams is knowing to kill spirit link as soon as it is dropped. This cannot be done through macros anymore.
Not normally, it hits for significantly less than frost strikeQuote:
Originally Posted by Sydwayz
Never defensive.
Yes, i change tatics a lot depending on how they react, what they are doing for CC etc.
No they do not
I stop queuing if i get a team more than 5 times within 20 mins above 1900 unless i'm farming them so bad it isn't even funny.
Frost strike, howling blast, strangulate correctly.
How can you effectively kill spirit link totem? With everything going on, I can't find the damn thing.
I really with there was a "KILL THE TOTEM NOW" mod that painted a giant RED CROSS over it so I can easily select and destroy it.
Also, do you use Dark Simulacrum? If so, how do you use it?
I think my point was missed. No worries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shodokan
I understood your point. Your point was that people can get better by watching other people of a higher caliber play. Thus my comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fat Tire
I believe his point was that you can get better by watching videos of yourself and critiquing what you did wrong and what the opposing team did correctly.
Though, your statement is equally valid.
Thank you so much for the tips and insight into how you play.
How do you use strangulate effectively?
I cannot seem to get it to go off when i absolutely need it to.
Its hard to, have to not mash so much and TRY and make sure you have the rune :\Quote:
Originally Posted by Sydwayz
There are a number of top pvp dks who stream, I would recommend those to all dks boxers. For rets Vanguards stream often and records, there are a number of other rets who stream also. All classes are streamed quite often by the best players. Watch and learn and most important listen, then apply it to boxing, a better solo pvp player will ultimately be a better pvp boxer. However, with that said I would still like to see some streams/fraps of your 3s shodo as I am sure the community would also. Its just another avenue for people who wish to learn all they can about pvp. Alot of streams suck but its pretty easy to find the best ones with the streamers who are pretty chill and not raging or cursing like a sailor.
You can follow you favorites and be notified when they are streaming.
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/World...t:%20Cataclysm
http://www.own3d.tv/game/World+of+Warcraft
Feral Druids. I cannot kill them.
In a recent 3v3 match, my opponents were also Triple DPS. A rogue, ret paladin, and a feral druid.
I killed both the rogue and the retribution paladin. I lost a single DK, the other 2 were at full health and the feral druid was also at full health.
No problem right? 2v1? Piece of cake? I lost. I was smashing him as hard as I could, but I could not overcome his frenzied regeneration and bear form.
Quote:
Originally Posted by daanji
Bear form is OP atm because the way vengeance currently work in pvp. When 4.3.2 hits, vengeance can no longer be gained in pvp. Druid bear form is still good defence, but they will hit like a sissy in bear form. For now you'll have to keep track of his vengeance stacks, and kite him w/o damaging him until it's reset, then blow cd's. Rinse & repeat.
I had an interesting time in a Stormwind raid today.
I encountered a mage I could not kill.
I death grip him in, silenced, blow cool downs and smash hit. His health went from 100% to 0% to 100% again.
I killed all Alliance near by, so I'm pretty sure he wasn't getting heals. As I continued to smash him, his health would ping-pong from 0% to 50% over and over again.
With 5x Dks, 5x Army, 2x Paladin HoJ, a Hunter, and my silence we could not kill him.
I think Cauterize was bugging out and proccing multiple times a minute. If this was not the case, then I don't know what is going on.
It's done through fucking around with trading an item. If they follow the proper 'steps', than the classes who have a last stand ability (like cauterize) get 15 minutes of god mode. Blizzard is aware and I assume they 'll fix it any time soon (they already fixed a variation of it). If you saw an influx of epic gems for example by the goldsellers, very likely they used this :)Quote:
Originally Posted by daanji
Ah, thought it was some glitch.
At first, we thought our camping of the Stormwind Auction House had caused enough tickets that a GM showed up in God Mode.
But then I realized it was just some regular slob on the server.
After the raid, the god-mode mage logged onto a Horde toon to gloat about it. He was stating how skilled he was and how badass that he took on 10 character and survived.
Thanks for the info! It gives me more information to put in my ticket :)
The problem with druids is you NEED to stop hitting them UNLESS they used their healing cooldowns and such. If they have just stack necrotics on them and laugh at them, If they haven't you neeed to kite them so turn CTM off and have one dk follow the other and use Chains of Ice and howling blast. Druids are decently easy to kite.Quote:
Originally Posted by daanji
I really want to start arenas with my shamans but all of them are elementals, I really dont care about the rating, but would like to cap conquest points every week- do you pick on healer first or dps?
Depends on the comp. But normally i blow up a healer first.Quote:
Originally Posted by sethlan
ok, im working also on mages, they are level 60 atm, not sure if thats gonna be ok for arenas.
Nope. Mages are terrible for 5's.Quote:
Originally Posted by sethlan
how about druids? or warlocks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shodokan
The only comp that would work above 1800+ rating would be melee cleave. Too easy to lock down casters in arenas.
agree, I guess I'm going to start working on DK's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nikita
Is 5v5 harder than 3v3 lets say 3x dks, or for 5's 4x dks 1 pala.
I assume you are playing 4dk+pally.
If so, how are you using hungering cold now that it has a cast time?
Do you use dark sim and if so how?
Are you "steering" the dks from the pally or do you actively play one of the dks?
thx
holy paladin calls when he is using aura mastery, i use it then... can't be interupted.Quote:
Originally Posted by hannibal
how do you handle smoke bombs. Does you healer come in or do you run out?
Does you healer play close or at max distance?
Do you have a kill button or are kills based more on silencing heals?
No such thing as a kill button.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sydwayz
Plays outside unless smokebomb. I normally save trinket for bombs and run out of it towards one of their healers. But if i can't he runs in.
Is there any reason or do you currently use Outbreak?
I don't have any idea what you are asking here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sydwayz
I guess you don't use it then...lol.
Outbreak is just one of the death knight spells that puts two diseases on a target instantly.
...Do you use obliterate very much?
I use that in my "burst" macro, and when on clothies I use obliterate otherwise the damage gain is minimal and you are better off with the extra runic power from your HB/NS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sydwayz
Theres an addon called Healers Must Die which puts a big X on their nameplates. Possibly could show an X on the spirit link, if not, the author of the addon could add it if you got in touch.Quote:
Originally Posted by daanji
Worst case, have a macro for both mana tide and SLT as both of these totems need to die asap imho.
Can't target totems with macros unless you use protected API.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashley
How you are doing damage with retri? 2 step or some castsequence macros?
When you play dk/ret combo what class is your 'main'?
Ret due to procs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emenems