Arena Blog Site

eludebear · 07/19/07, 5:32 PM

My friend just showed me this new cool blog site, looks like it just started up, I thought it was pretty Interesting read for people that are bored, especially me when im at work. Looks like it has a bunch of cool statistics for someone who has too much free time on their hands lol.

Heres the link:
Arena Blogger

(no i didnt make it this isnt a shameless plug, and dont ask me any questions cause I cant answer them)

• syeren · 07/19/07, 5:40 PM

World of Ming
http://shadow-gaming.com

There are some others which I cannot remember at the moment :P

eludebear · 07/19/07, 5:43 PM

I've been to ming's site, seems like he usually only talks about his team and rogues, never went to that other one before

PapaShlapa · 07/19/07, 5:44 PM

Another big one is Radikal Noise which focuses more on mage related issues. I also run a site myself at World Of Papa for those interested. I play on the current #1 team in North America, #2 in the world.

eludebear · 07/19/07, 5:46 PM

Ya all those sites seem to have underlying themes with only the creators team's and or classes, this one looked promising because I dont even know what class the creator is or who it is and hes covering lots of teams

Vykromond · 07/19/07, 5:46 PM

Thanks for the link, more sources of information and analysis are always nice. Worldofming is pretty bad, that guy is a real sociopath.

eludebear · 07/19/07, 5:48 PM

Originally Posted by Vykromond

Thanks for the link, more sources of information and analysis are always nice. Worldofming is pretty bad, that guy is a real sociopath.

Ya people in our guild like to tease the rogues saying hes the most famous one, and every single rogue in our guild hates him lolol

eludebear · 07/19/07, 5:49 PM

Originally Posted by PapaShlapa

Another big one is Radikal Noise which focuses more on mage related issues. I also run a site myself at World Of Papa for those interested. I play on the current #1 team in North America, #2 in the world.

Ya see every site is about someones team/their progress, that first one you said is about mages, yours is about your team, mings is about his rogues teams and his class.

This one seems a lot different

Haha this site was talking about your team some too, your in his "900 club" lol

• syeren · 07/19/07, 6:53 PM

Originally Posted by eludebear

Ya people in our guild like to tease the rogues saying hes the most famous one, and every single rogue in our guild hates him lolol

Ming is a moron, but he's absolutely gold to read, it's impossible to make a parody of him he's that bad :P

And Papa, weak battle group, how about going to Bloodlust and facing some real teams

?

Wintern · 07/19/07, 7:07 PM

It look's good with the first few articles, will definately keep an eye on it. Shadow-Gaming is also another good site to read, WoM used to be quite good at the start, now it's turned into something not worth bothering with.

• diospadre · 07/19/07, 7:11 PM

Originally Posted by eludebear

I've been to ming's site, seems like he usually only talks about his team and rogues, never went to that other one before

It's probably the funniest site on the internet.

Ming’s Comments:

It is pretty embarrassing how I used to dislike her for being the only druid to always start in cat form in a duel, she was exceptional at avoiding my sharingan and always took opener on me and beat me every now and then with inferior gear. Then I realized she is a gggggggggiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrllllllllll and saw her picture, wow, the first line came out of my mouth was “she looks just like a druid!”. Washmachine was on vent and his response was “you mean dire bear?”. Hell no, look at these eyes, they are so blue, so pretty like them 12 stamina gems, are these eyes real? She is one of the few players as pretty as her in-game character. I told Natalia she can write as much or as little as she wants, that smile alone is sure to conquer the readers of WOM.

◊ Maniq · 07/19/07, 7:57 PM

Originally Posted by eludebear

Ya people in our guild like to tease the rogues saying hes the most famous one, and every single rogue in our guild hates him lolol

I know you didn't use "lolol" as a full stop to that sentence.

Originally Posted by diospadre

It's probably the funniest site on the internet.

Ming’s Comments:

It is pretty embarrassing how I used to dislike her for being the only druid to always start in cat form in a duel, she was exceptional at avoiding my sharingan and always took opener on me and beat me every now and then with inferior gear. Then I realized she is a gggggggggiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrllllllllll and saw her picture, wow, the first line came out of my mouth was “she looks just like a druid!”. Washmachine was on vent and his response was “you mean dire bear?”. Hell no, look at these eyes, they are so blue, so pretty like them 12 stamina gems, are these eyes real? She is one of the few players as pretty as her in-game character. I told Natalia she can write as much or as little as she wants, that smile alone is sure to conquer the readers of WOM.

Or a blog version of the film "When Ducky met Artuse".

PapaShlapa · 07/19/07, 8:06 PM

Originally Posted by syeren

Ming is a moron, but he's absolutely gold to read, it's impossible to make a parody of him he's that bad :P

And Papa, weak battle group, how about going to Bloodlust and facing some real teams

?

I would never transfer unless my entire guild and arena team did. I don't see that happening, so I doubt I'll ever get a chance to take #1 on BG9.

• syeren · 07/20/07, 5:12 AM

Originally Posted by PapaShlapa

I would never transfer unless my entire guild and arena team did. I don't see that happening, so I doubt I'll ever get a chance to take #1 on BG9.

Could you please write an article on the Spellsurge vs Spell Damage enchant on weapon for mages, our mage is interested on your thoughts on it, and he pretty much has no one to talk with about such things on my horrible realm :P

Antarius · 07/20/07, 11:16 AM

He got his conclusions partly right about Zabash in the Bill Has Downs team.

Sometimes we'll split dps with the warrior and warlock on 1 target (usually a warlock or healer) with our rogue on a 2nd warlock or healer.

But then other teams, with no easy cloth targets, we'll just focus dps on 1 person.

We do have a high lose percentage, because we don't stop queueing against top teams, where most every other team will stop queue'ing after 1 loss, or at most 2.

Also, teams with a good hunter screw us up, as do double shaman shaman teams, since the grounding totem really screws up our warlock, who is an absoulte monster.

PapaShlapa · 07/20/07, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by syeren

Could you please write an article on the Spellsurge vs Spell Damage enchant on weapon for mages, our mage is interested on your thoughts on it, and he pretty much has no one to talk with about such things on my horrible realm :P

Will do. I'll write something up in a few hours when I get home from work. You can probably expect two big updates from me today, since I had something else planned as well.

• Gwaihir · 07/20/07, 12:29 PM

Spellsurge is about 7-9 mp5 for the group, going by the long analysis thread in the theorycraft forums. I'm obviously not a mage, but I know that unless you play a 4 person instagib team, running out of mana is a quite large problem in arenas, especially since for healers the pvp gear generally lacks any regen in exchange for plain plus healing and stam/resil.

I'd say the choice is just about entirely based on what type of team you are running. On a three healer outlast team it seems like spellsurge is the clear winner. On a burst dps team, you either win or loose before you go oom, really.

Colan · 07/20/07, 12:53 PM

Hm, I'll should look into these blog sites. Only comment I really have on the one at the top is that it seems to dwell too much in team statistics rather than strategy and theory in arena (Of course I'll have to see where it goes from here), other than that it seems like a great blog.

Astrik · 07/20/07, 2:32 PM

Nice site Papa - lots of great articles in there!

• Digo · 07/20/07, 2:54 PM

The best part of Ming's site are the "what valuable real life lessons Naruto teaches us."

• frmorrison · 07/20/07, 3:01 PM

Originally Posted by diospadre

It's probably the funniest site on the internet.

I wouldn't say it is the funniest, but I agree with funniest WoW related site; Ming is trying to get readers, and he does anything he can to get them.

The link in the OP looks interesting.

Cormack · 07/20/07, 3:33 PM

Originally Posted by Digo

The best part of Ming's site are the "what valuable real life lessons Naruto teaches us."

I think you meant "what valuable real life lessons Naruto teaches us about becoming a ninja."

PapaShlapa · 07/20/07, 4:14 PM

Originally Posted by syeren

Could you please write an article on the Spellsurge vs Spell Damage enchant on weapon for mages, our mage is interested on your thoughts on it, and he pretty much has no one to talk with about such things on my horrible realm :P

Upon further analysis, there isn't really much I can write about this issue, so I'm not going to bother trying to write up a length article. Long story short, you're probably better off with Spellsurge when playing on an "outlast" type team such as 2 or 2.5 healer, and better off with 40(or 50) damage when playing on a 4DPS team. Reason being, on a 4DPS team you spend most of your time casting damage spells, whereas on a 2 or 2.5 healer team, you spend most of your time CCing and the damage gives you far less benefit.

Kcolraw · 07/21/07, 7:10 AM

spellsurge acts as a dispel buffer too i think?