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Rockstar · 04/10/08, 11:43 AM

Persuading your team to spend their banked arena/honour points "now" and not later is a good start, it definitely helps against the burst/outlast setups which test your gear along with your skill. Especially if you're like me and hit dualist in s2 as shadow, but needed a full new disc equip to heal after shadow became the 'carry me' spec.

The main thing is just playing more, and at least have some basic strategy/ability to target switch. Nothing makes me happier than people with tunnel vision since it's effectively a free win, but at the time you want your teammates to not feel they 'must' keep pressuring one target. As a dualist from s2 playing shadow I'm still getting used to the offensive style of the disc priest, mainly due to me finding it difficult to walk the tightrope between offensive pressure (dispels, mana burns) and heals. I'd say the biggest mistake I make is generally trying to 'Do it all', by healing my teammates, kiting dps, contributing to pressure on their healers aswell as handling offensive and defensive dispels - when usually I'd have been more useful by just paying more attention to debuffs and buffs and reacting accordingly. Spending a couple of minutes talking afterwards about what went wrong, how pressure could have been directed and so on also helps you understand your teammates concerns - and therefore helps your synergy with them in future games.

Because of the importance of BoF/BoP/DS/IB in lower brackets I'd almost certainly recommend putting a few custom lines into your SCT so you're on top of your dispels. We've lost a few games due to me simply not paying attention and leaving BoP up a couple of seconds and thankfully putting some custom SCT events in as part of my UI helps.

Lastly, keybinds.. if you're like me and have multiple characters with different keybinds I'd almost certainly do a quick AV/AB first to mentally 'save' what buttons do what, it can save you a loss or two by you not paying attention,e specially if you play after work. I realise some people play their main exclusively so this isn't an issue, but for those of us with a plethora of alts - silly as it sounds - it helps (me at least).

04/10/08, 11:43 AM	#20 (permalink)
Rockstar Von Kaiser Rockstar Undead Priest <Ebrium> Bloodhoof (EU)	Persuading your team to spend their banked arena/honour points "now" and not later is a good start, it definitely helps against the burst/outlast setups which test your gear along with your skill. Especially if you're like me and hit dualist in s2 as shadow, but needed a full new disc equip to heal after shadow became the 'carry me' spec. The main thing is just playing more, and at least have some basic strategy/ability to target switch. Nothing makes me happier than people with tunnel vision since it's effectively a free win, but at the time you want your teammates to not feel they 'must' keep pressuring one target. As a dualist from s2 playing shadow I'm still getting used to the offensive style of the disc priest, mainly due to me finding it difficult to walk the tightrope between offensive pressure (dispels, mana burns) and heals. I'd say the biggest mistake I make is generally trying to 'Do it all', by healing my teammates, kiting dps, contributing to pressure on their healers aswell as handling offensive and defensive dispels - when usually I'd have been more useful by just paying more attention to debuffs and buffs and reacting accordingly. Spending a couple of minutes talking afterwards about what went wrong, how pressure could have been directed and so on also helps you understand your teammates concerns - and therefore helps your synergy with them in future games. Because of the importance of BoF/BoP/DS/IB in lower brackets I'd almost certainly recommend putting a few custom lines into your SCT so you're on top of your dispels. We've lost a few games due to me simply not paying attention and leaving BoP up a couple of seconds and thankfully putting some custom SCT events in as part of my UI helps. Lastly, keybinds.. if you're like me and have multiple characters with different keybinds I'd almost certainly do a quick AV/AB first to mentally 'save' what buttons do what, it can save you a loss or two by you not paying attention,e specially if you play after work. I realise some people play their main exclusively so this isn't an issue, but for those of us with a plethora of alts - silly as it sounds - it helps (me at least).