I'm gonna share some of my tips / bits of advice for how to BG proficiently.
Positioning:
While you are a Warlock that can tank a good deal of damage, it's generally far better for you to try & stand towards the back of battles, out of range of melee, to allow you to consistently nuke people down. Also, always be aware of your surroundings & nearby enemies. Throughout battles, you need to regularly check if you can better position yourself to better adapt to how your enemies have moved.
Be Smart:
If you & some of your teammates are trying to kill someone, but they keep getting heals, don't be a derp & keep spamming your nukes on the guy; Fear the healer. If you see one of your teammates getting opened up on by a Rogue, Fear them to help your teammate out. Constantly look out for people needing peels, a quick Fear or Shadowfury can change the momentum in your favor.
Defend & Call Out Incs:
This speaks for itself, if you cap a node, be prepared to defend it. If you're with 2-3 other people at your node & you see someone call out in BG chat that there are a few incoming to Farm when you're at LM, be sure to go help them out as they likely won't be attacking LM soon & you'll be able to spare a person or 2. If you see people coming towards your node, call out in BG chat so you can get some help as soon as possible, don't be a hero & cost your team a node.
Fight On Nodes:
Don't waste your time dismounting to kill someone out in the middle of a road, if you aren't attacked first of course. It's more important to go attack a node & potentially secure the game for your team. On the subject of that, call out if you notice there are only 1-2 people defending an enemy node, state that they are vulnerable to a quick assault of 3 or so of you guys.
Group Up:
You will get a lot more accomplished with 1-2 other people with you. I usually serve as a 'floater' of sorts, traveling between nodes with a few others to respond to incs that were called out. Also, this saves you from being killed by some Rogue in a CS -> KS while mounted, which means no Soul Link for you!
Tada! You are now considered top tier BG Hero material, congratulations.
Mostly random bits of tips & advice for the World of Warcraft Arena system with a bit of thoughts on it as well from the point of view of a 2.3k rated Warlock.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Going Demo In 2's For The Lulz
Entering the 30th week of Season 8 (wtf!), there's nothing for me to really do except sit at my ratings & pray for the season to end. To pass some time, I decided to give Demo a try. I quickly found a random Resto Druid that had nothing else to do, so we started queving up for some skirms. I have to admit, it was actually pretty fun & refreshing to try something new out, it was almost like playing a whole new class. I also found that Demo can hit pretty hard, 9k Shadow Bolt crits were normal against people in full Wrath, & I was loving it. I'm pretty sure we didn't lose a single match, we did around 20 or so, but the one match that stood out to me was against an actual 2's team; a mirror comp with the Warlock as Affliction. Everyone knows how stupidly OP Aff / Resto is, so I knew this was going to be a great chance to test out Demo's viability, & also to take a crap on some kids chest who rolled an OP comp.
The match started out normal enough, I jumped on the Lock as soon as I could to prevent him from spreading DoT's around. I got a nice 9k Shadow Bolt on the Lock, so I quickly Banished the Druid, poured some Incinerates on him as Molten Core had procced, got a Spell Lock on the Lock while he was casting Fear, then I got the Druid into a full Fear, obviously he had to trinket to avoid having his Lock die. I made a mistake of getting tunnel vision on the Lock, so I got caught in a full Counterspell while casting Shadowbolt, so decided to retreat a bit since the Druid had full HoT's rolling on the Lock now.
Being the gay comp Aff / Resto is, they started prolonging the game via DoT's & Mana Drains. Of course I prevented as much Drains on my Druid as possible, but there were some I just couldn't stop. This went on for about 2 minutes, & throughout the game, I had slowly forced all the Druids cooldowns; Barkskin, Trinket, Nature's Swiftness, so it was time to end the game.
Now the amazing thing about Demo is Metamorphosis, where you turn into a huge demon, which is basically the same skin as Illadin from WC3, & it basically gives you a 20% overall damage increase, as well as a decrease in damage taken. You also gain some awesome abilities that are only usable in Meta form, my favorites being: Demon Charge (let's you charge an enemy) & Immolation Aura, which is almost basically a melee range Starfall, for me it ticks 1.8k every 0.7 seconds.
Back to the match, I popped Metamorphosis, got the Lock in a full Fear, Demon Charged the Druid, popped Immo Aura, & started throwing out 9k NON-CRIT Shadowbolt's onto him. He obviously didn't expect such burst, so with a simple Death Coil -> Counterspell while casting, I killed him pretty easily. As soon as he dropped, I just started laughing at how a gimped out spec like Demo beat such an OP comp. What made it even sweeter was I did way more damage than the Aff Lock from how much I had locked him down.
There's no better feeling than having some kids log over from their realm onto mine to spam whispers on how 'bad I am' & the usual 'LOL DUELIST' when these kids can't even break 2k.
I'll most likely keep screwing around with Demo since I haven't seen anyone with good gear use it, & there's nothing else for me to do.
Here's to hoping Cataclysm is released soon!
The match started out normal enough, I jumped on the Lock as soon as I could to prevent him from spreading DoT's around. I got a nice 9k Shadow Bolt on the Lock, so I quickly Banished the Druid, poured some Incinerates on him as Molten Core had procced, got a Spell Lock on the Lock while he was casting Fear, then I got the Druid into a full Fear, obviously he had to trinket to avoid having his Lock die. I made a mistake of getting tunnel vision on the Lock, so I got caught in a full Counterspell while casting Shadowbolt, so decided to retreat a bit since the Druid had full HoT's rolling on the Lock now.
Being the gay comp Aff / Resto is, they started prolonging the game via DoT's & Mana Drains. Of course I prevented as much Drains on my Druid as possible, but there were some I just couldn't stop. This went on for about 2 minutes, & throughout the game, I had slowly forced all the Druids cooldowns; Barkskin, Trinket, Nature's Swiftness, so it was time to end the game.
Now the amazing thing about Demo is Metamorphosis, where you turn into a huge demon, which is basically the same skin as Illadin from WC3, & it basically gives you a 20% overall damage increase, as well as a decrease in damage taken. You also gain some awesome abilities that are only usable in Meta form, my favorites being: Demon Charge (let's you charge an enemy) & Immolation Aura, which is almost basically a melee range Starfall, for me it ticks 1.8k every 0.7 seconds.
Back to the match, I popped Metamorphosis, got the Lock in a full Fear, Demon Charged the Druid, popped Immo Aura, & started throwing out 9k NON-CRIT Shadowbolt's onto him. He obviously didn't expect such burst, so with a simple Death Coil -> Counterspell while casting, I killed him pretty easily. As soon as he dropped, I just started laughing at how a gimped out spec like Demo beat such an OP comp. What made it even sweeter was I did way more damage than the Aff Lock from how much I had locked him down.
There's no better feeling than having some kids log over from their realm onto mine to spam whispers on how 'bad I am' & the usual 'LOL DUELIST' when these kids can't even break 2k.
I'll most likely keep screwing around with Demo since I haven't seen anyone with good gear use it, & there's nothing else for me to do.
Here's a screenshot I took of the results just to laugh at it again later on.
Here's to hoping Cataclysm is released soon!
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