Mosg2's DK Manifesto

[Fat Tire]

When you look at melee zerg boxing really, is there a lot of rooms for improvement on the execution ? I see we got the execution down pretty well. But it is capped.

and put it into a ratings perspective, I see it capped around 2k ratings. That is NOT bad in any sense. But that is what we have to work with. I can't imagine all those 2200 teams just suddenly forget how to play and let us zerg them down.

I say this from experience. I've played enough melee zerging. When I lose a match to a good team, I ask "is there anything I can improve on ? " and frankly, most of the cases, there is nothing I can think of. I did the best possible. The weakness of melee boxing just cannot be overcome if your opponents know them.

Even then-

Anyone who has played with the mindless children who care about rank 1 and to a lesser degree gladiator know that there is a high school popular cool kids mentality among the good arena players.

They snipe,dogde, wintrade, level alt teams, tank mmr to friends while their mains already have glad. In my opinion no muti boxer, no matter how good will ever get glad in 5s. 5v5 is such a small pool of teams that it just wont ever happen, even on BL which is not even the highest/best/most populated BG anymore. Most all the cool kids went horde/illidan/rampage when cata came out.

If you could even get into glad range every counter would snipe you. You would have lvl 1 watchers on your server to see when you were playing the second you were in glad range towards the end of the season. They would queue and you would lose points. If you tried to sit on your rating, they would wintrade/dump mmr to their friends team and farm you when you tried to play.

I could see it in 3s just for the fact that there is a larger pool, but I think even that is almost impossible playing all by yourself.

You could pull a krush and get glad solo on each of your characters and then log them all on at the same time. huzza

With all that said, I give mad props to all the 5s boxers who play arena. Arena =/= BGs. I say if you are able to get to 2200 for the weapons, that in itself, no matter how accomplished is something to be proud of in this stupid game.