Rets Arena Week Three

[heyaz]

Yeah you need gladius like whoa

But I enjoy watching it

except those male dranaei.. how do you guys play those hideous things?

[Mamut]

Thanks for sharing your progress with us.

How are you handling your healing? I've been using a heal key for each party member as well as a self heal and focustarget heal. My keybind real estate is pretty scarce but i cant think of another way to handle it.

[Ualaa]

You seem to do better in the matches where you or your opponent closes immediately.
As opposed to the ones where you have distance for a while.

Maybe suddenly being on them is a decent strategy.

[Mosg2]

I haven't taken any of my games so far very seriously. I know that's not the best attitude but I didn't realistically expect to rocket to 1800 with half blues and 400 resilience. Now that I'm at ~650 res and almost full purples I'm going to be doing a *lot* more games. With the experience I've had so far, as Ualaa pointed out, I think the basic strat is this:

Charge immediately once you've got a target. Zerg them down. Hungering Cold on the DK and if they trinket immediately Repentance splash on arenatarget1-4. Rinse/repeat, using Deathgrip to pull in runners.

So, I need:

1. Gladius
2. Better cleanse/HoF macros
3. Some skill

[heyaz]

You seem to do better in the matches where you or your opponent closes immediately.
As opposed to the ones where you have distance for a while.

Maybe suddenly being on them is a decent strategy.

oh man rogues

[Mosg2]

The more I play the Rets in BG's and Arenas I feel that Rogues are going to be the new thing. Insta gib on a target? 2 global kills against 1100 res and 30k hp? MS+Snare+Mind Numbing? Splash Blind on arenatarget1-4?

[asonimie]

The more I play the Rets in BG's and Arenas I feel that Rogues are going to be the new thing. Insta gib on a target? 2 global kills against 1100 res and 30k hp? MS+Snare+Mind Numbing? Splash Blind on arenatarget1-4?

We will soon see. Had a priest healer on me last night in WSG, I just solo'd the enemy horde team over and over with maybe 1-2 other people helping. Rest ran flag 2x in 4 mins and we farmed kills for 20 mins. Rogues are extremely fun in BGs if nothing else.

[David]

5. I need a new weapon. Thank god for 266dps free 2h'er in patch 3.3.

What is this one that people talk about? Shadowmourne?

Charge immediately once you've got a target. Zerg them down. Hungering Cold on the DK and if they trinket immediately Repentance splash on arenatarget1-4. Rinse/repeat, using Deathgrip to pull in runners.

Mind explaining macro`s and how you do this with repentance?

The more I play the Rets in BG's and Arenas I feel that Rogues are going to be the new thing. Insta gib on a target? 2 global kills against 1100 res and 30k hp? MS+Snare+Mind Numbing? Splash Blind on arenatarget1-4?

I`m thinking of leveling me a team of rogues. 1dk and 4pallies din`t ammuse me to much and 5 rets are terrible it seems, a good mage + shaman can kite you forver. Even some good mages alone can.

What do you suggest then? 4 or 5 rogues? Don`t think 5 rogues in arena can pull it off alone. Maybe a druid healer will be needed?

On topic:
I like the movie, nice pvp action hehe. I noticed that you get a lot of undergeared guys as well. I end up fighting relentless teams with 30k+hp. My 5 rets cannot take down a full relentless disp priest lol. Tho I`m still heirbloom weapons and shit gear.

[Iceorbz]

I hate to want to crash the thread, but i would ask if you have real questions about the setup we should be taking this stuff to pm's. Or maybe a different area we could signup for so our weakness arent on blast to the world.

[Mosg2]

What is this one that people talk about? Shadowmourne?

Quel'Delar. It's a quested 2h sword from the new 5 man instances coming in 3.3. It's cake to get--A few hours tops.

Mind explaining macro`s and how you do this with repentance?

Since Blizzard added arena unit frames they're now valid targets for [target=] stuff. So, each guy has a macro:
/cast [target=arenatarget1] Repentance
This goes sequentially up so you get 4 guys. Sure, it's not always going to be in range or facing but even if you only get two off...

I like the movie, nice pvp action hehe. I noticed that you get a lot of undergeared guys as well. I end up fighting relentless teams with 30k+hp. My 5 rets cannot take down a full relentless disp priest lol. Tho I`m still heirbloom weapons and shit gear.

I'm with you. Once you get some gear though you'll see a *huge* difference in your output. I promise

I hate to want to crash the thread, but i would ask if you have real questions about the setup we should be taking this stuff to pm's. Or maybe a different area we could signup for so our weakness arent on blast to the world.

I'm with you in the sense that I don't want to share with people my strats on how to beat me but I don't feel like there's an effective way to prevent that other than just not communicating I think this is a great place to get innovation. I'd say boxers in general are pretty innovative In any case, I'll be happy to answer any specific questions via PM myself.