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Stoical · 04/09/08, 3:55 PM

Communication, awareness, and easy access to all your abilities are definitely key. You should also be using the right abilities at the right times without prompting, not just randomly doing dps or healing without thinking about your other options. Generally speaking, if I'm playing with a clothie and they have to call for me to bop them when they're getting low, or they die and I say something like "You didn't ask for a BoP!," I'm doing something wrong. If I'm with a warrior and he has to call for BoF when he gets rooted, I'm doing something wrong (he should still call it out, but I should be paying attention and doing it already). Similarly, if I'm having to tell a lock to CoT the paladin, or be casting fear regularly in between applying dots, other similar basic ideas, he's doing something wrong. (Note that 5s is the only bracket I've taken seriously this season, my 2s and 3s were solely used to help some friends).

Also, for 2s and 3s especially, be willing to stop queueing if you're getting a bad matchup. Sometimes the smaller brackets can be a lot like poker. The key isn't winning every time, that's impossible, it's winning when you should win, winning more often than not where the chances are even, and minimizing your losses when you can't win. In 2s especially and 3s to a degree, there are certain matchups that may be impossible for you to win, given a competent opponent. If the queues are somewhat long and you get the same unbeatable team a couple of times in a row, stop queueing. When my 5s team had trouble getting off the ground at the start of the season, I jumped into 2s with our warrior to get him the s3 weapon asap. We went 1500-1850 in one week without too much trouble, despite the weaknesses of paladin-warrior that spawn so much QQing by warrior and paladin alike, by making sure if we ran into a nasty mage/rogue or lock/healer team that we felt we couldn't beat twice in a row, we would stop queueing and try again an hour later or another day. And we got huge chunks of points from warrior/druid teams that couldn't beat us, but would queue into us like 5 times in a row.

The risk of that is that most people think every loss was "impossible, there was nothing I could do!", but if you're actually a good judge of fights you can win and fights you can't, stop queueing into the fights you can't.

04/09/08, 3:55 PM	#18 (permalink)
Stoical Von Kaiser Depravity Orc Death Knight <Sons of the Storm> Black Dragonflight	Communication, awareness, and easy access to all your abilities are definitely key. You should also be using the right abilities at the right times without prompting, not just randomly doing dps or healing without thinking about your other options. Generally speaking, if I'm playing with a clothie and they have to call for me to bop them when they're getting low, or they die and I say something like "You didn't ask for a BoP!," I'm doing something wrong. If I'm with a warrior and he has to call for BoF when he gets rooted, I'm doing something wrong (he should still call it out, but I should be paying attention and doing it already). Similarly, if I'm having to tell a lock to CoT the paladin, or be casting fear regularly in between applying dots, other similar basic ideas, he's doing something wrong. (Note that 5s is the only bracket I've taken seriously this season, my 2s and 3s were solely used to help some friends). Also, for 2s and 3s especially, be willing to stop queueing if you're getting a bad matchup. Sometimes the smaller brackets can be a lot like poker. The key isn't winning every time, that's impossible, it's winning when you should win, winning more often than not where the chances are even, and minimizing your losses when you can't win. In 2s especially and 3s to a degree, there are certain matchups that may be impossible for you to win, given a competent opponent. If the queues are somewhat long and you get the same unbeatable team a couple of times in a row, stop queueing. When my 5s team had trouble getting off the ground at the start of the season, I jumped into 2s with our warrior to get him the s3 weapon asap. We went 1500-1850 in one week without too much trouble, despite the weaknesses of paladin-warrior that spawn so much QQing by warrior and paladin alike, by making sure if we ran into a nasty mage/rogue or lock/healer team that we felt we couldn't beat twice in a row, we would stop queueing and try again an hour later or another day. And we got huge chunks of points from warrior/druid teams that couldn't beat us, but would queue into us like 5 times in a row. The risk of that is that most people think every loss was "impossible, there was nothing I could do!", but if you're actually a good judge of fights you can win and fights you can't, stop queueing into the fights you can't.