Long time coming

[remanz]

Well. the grind was so long. I almost forgot what my end goal was. I've been a boxer for quite a long time. Watching Xzin, Xbox, Ellay, all these guys doing amazing things in pvp through out the years. And for the first time, I was able to accomplish something for myself, reaching 1800 rating in arena.

My goal for WotLK was purely PVP. Started out with 5 shamans. Got close to 1800 a few times, but ultimately came up short. Then my healer friend went away from PVP so I was pretty much stuck. Then Kromtor really openned my eyes with this combo. So here I am, almost 4 months 20 days later since I started lvling this team. Finally got to where I wanted, feeling empty. lol

[remanz]

While leaving the strategies and tatics discussion to the arena section, I do have a few things to say about DK + 4 Rets here.

1. It is a gimmick team. The more I play this combo against some teams, the slimer the chance of winning becomes.
2. Out of all the matches I've played, I have 0 rez from the opposing team. and All of them are under 4 mins played. (this tells a great deal about this team).
3. Not really scaleble in terms of skills for me. I played my last 50 matches pretty much the same way as my first 50 matches. I didn't improve my execution too much.
4. The game for arena was 80% preparation, which is outside of arena, where the actual playing was only 20%. and For the record (explaining point#3), I did twick my setups quite a bit through out those matches.
5. All games were played by me alone. (this along with #2 are the only advantages of this team)
6. Still kudos to Kromtor for pioneering this combo.

[Stealthy]

Gratz mate...lookin' pimp!!

[Zugdud]

Congrats Remanz! Epic accomplishment with you playing 100% of the team, now I think it's time to upgrade those shoulders next

/salute

[Shabu42]

Really looks epic , especially with the WG shoulders

[Firstcow]

What do you guys think about a warrior + 4 paladins? A lot of high rated teams have 2 healers and it's really hard to cc both at the same time to land a sure kill. A warrior could help with mortal strike and the fear. Also unrelenting assault can reduce healing even more. Do you think this can work?

[Ualaa]

The warrior gets you Mortal Strike, which can be huge.
But you lose the melee haste, which probably adds to more damage then Mortal Strike prevents heals.

And then you lose Death Grip + Snare, which is a large portion of the DK's strength on the team.

[heyaz]

Grats man.

As far as a gimmick team, do you think it's any less of a gimmick than quad shaman?

[remanz]

Grats man.

As far as a gimmick team, do you think it's any less of a gimmick than quad shaman?

There are about the same to my eyes. Only because shamans were out there for too long, and also with you and other veteran shaman boxers doing a great job educating the world with your high level arena play, people know more about shamans than melees. So it seems like dk+4rets are more of a gimmick than shamans as of right now. I am not too confident after people all learn about this combo.

[Eloxy]

GJ M8!

Always a pleasure to see fellow boxers achieve their goals in pvp =)