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piteq · 07/07/08, 5:09 AM

Well, please take impressions with a pinch of salt, since I never seriously played any 5v5 or 3v3, and I end up each subsequent season between 1750 and 1850. First two (and a half) I played as feral, for last two or three months I try to learn resto way of life (now I tried some quasi-dreamstate for sake of experiment; so this is what my armory will show; the 1660 rating I got now is achieved with MM hunter).

I unfortunately have to agree with rogues going overboard (sob). One mistake with positioning and/or reapplying FF and I'm being exposed to all means of CC, starting from cs and kidney, ending on blind and - if I'm slow enough to get caught in casterform - sap. The amount of control AND damage output AND survivability made me speechless more than several times. Humorously speaking, as a Night Elf I got long enough ears to accomodate several trinkets, and I should have at least two to properly counter rogue teams. <qq>Rogues, together with mace stun specced warriors are currently on my top-hate list ;-)</qq>.

I also got an impression about increased popularity of resto shammy / warrior teams. Combination of WF, MS and just extreme amount of stuns make this team very difficult from my point of view. Especially, that it's easier to make mistake with CC on warrior due to well put grounding totems. We (as in my hunter and me) still don't have working strategy against well played warrior + resto shammy. By the way, I guess warriors perfectly know how powerful their stun capabilities are, because I VERY rarely see warriors equipped with S3 weapon despite having S3 shoulders. Absolutely most of them wield Stormherald instead; at least in 2v2.

I have played around 90 matches. As for popularity of classes, rogue+healer (mostly disc priest), rogue+another dps (especially mage) and warrior+healer (with no visible domination of any healer class) seems to be most popular setups right now. Amount of rogues populating the 2v2 bracket is now IMMENSE. I have seen one enhancement shammy, one feral, very few spriests. I also saw VERY noticeable decline in numbers of pure resto druids - most of druids I met were restokins. Also, quite many people seem to level engineering high enough to make and use some variant of rocket boots. During those 90 matches I saw it at least 5 or 6 times; once even by... resto druid, who pop them to escape from my hunters' pet and take a few gulps of water below the bridge of BE arena.

@Latito; yes - Deep is very well known feral druid. I'm happy you're doing good; I hope you can prove that ferals, combined with right partner, can also rock in 2v2. I had completely no luck in finding partner as feral on my server, despite I (in my own eyes) play feral much better than I play resto now.

07/07/08, 5:09 AM	#56 (permalink)
piteq Glass Joe piteq Night Elf Druid <Deadwood> Shadowsong (EU)	Well, please take impressions with a pinch of salt, since I never seriously played any 5v5 or 3v3, and I end up each subsequent season between 1750 and 1850. First two (and a half) I played as feral, for last two or three months I try to learn resto way of life (now I tried some quasi-dreamstate for sake of experiment; so this is what my armory will show; the 1660 rating I got now is achieved with MM hunter). I unfortunately have to agree with rogues going overboard (sob). One mistake with positioning and/or reapplying FF and I'm being exposed to all means of CC, starting from cs and kidney, ending on blind and - if I'm slow enough to get caught in casterform - sap. The amount of control AND damage output AND survivability made me speechless more than several times. Humorously speaking, as a Night Elf I got long enough ears to accomodate several trinkets, and I should have at least two to properly counter rogue teams. <qq>Rogues, together with mace stun specced warriors are currently on my top-hate list ;-)</qq>. I also got an impression about increased popularity of resto shammy / warrior teams. Combination of WF, MS and just extreme amount of stuns make this team very difficult from my point of view. Especially, that it's easier to make mistake with CC on warrior due to well put grounding totems. We (as in my hunter and me) still don't have working strategy against well played warrior + resto shammy. By the way, I guess warriors perfectly know how powerful their stun capabilities are, because I VERY rarely see warriors equipped with S3 weapon despite having S3 shoulders. Absolutely most of them wield Stormherald instead; at least in 2v2. I have played around 90 matches. As for popularity of classes, rogue+healer (mostly disc priest), rogue+another dps (especially mage) and warrior+healer (with no visible domination of any healer class) seems to be most popular setups right now. Amount of rogues populating the 2v2 bracket is now IMMENSE. I have seen one enhancement shammy, one feral, very few spriests. I also saw VERY noticeable decline in numbers of pure resto druids - most of druids I met were restokins. Also, quite many people seem to level engineering high enough to make and use some variant of rocket boots. During those 90 matches I saw it at least 5 or 6 times; once even by... resto druid, who pop them to escape from my hunters' pet and take a few gulps of water below the bridge of BE arena. @Latito; yes - Deep is very well known feral druid. I'm happy you're doing good; I hope you can prove that ferals, combined with right partner, can also rock in 2v2. I had completely no luck in finding partner as feral on my server, despite I (in my own eyes) play feral much better than I play resto now.