Blizz EU Invite - Day 1 - Page 389

On August 07 2011 06:41 MrSexington wrote:


What song did they play?

On August 07 2011 06:22 Meancookie wrote:
Some more important terminology for people:

RMP = rogue/mage/priest -> the sustained damage of this comp is pretty low, but they can burst really hard every once in a while. they also have excellent control. similar to a macro-style zerg who has lings running all over the map while muta micro etc etc

cleaves = physical damage cleaves, consisting of a healer and either 2 melee classes or a melee class and a hunter. notorious for having NO CONTROL but rather such obscene damage output that all they have to do to win is attack a target with both damageclasses (oversimplification but you get the point)

wizzard cleaves = a team consisting of a healer and 2 caster classes. they have too much control for it to be balanced :p there are 2 subtypes: burst wizzard cleaves (those that randomly kill people out of nowhere) and shadowplay (based on constant pressure with lots of damage-over-time abilities)

double healer teams = a warrior(or death knight) with 2 healers, meaning you have 1 damage dealer who can afford to go over the top aggressive. they usually win by outmana-ing the opponent

apparently both teams we're gonna see are "shadowcleaves": a team consiting of a healer, an affliction warlock and a death knight. they rely on outlasting the opponent with medium control and LOTS AND LOTS of pressure (i.e. everyone's health will be low hp nonstop)

On August 07 2011 06:43 Benjef wrote:
Who is the speaker atm ? The English one? I hear him all the time at events but I don't know who he is

On August 07 2011 06:43 Benjef wrote:
Who is the speaker atm ? The English one? I hear him all the time at events but I don't know who he is

On August 07 2011 06:42 Daray wrote:


Flying in a 10 person team to a LAN tournament. Yeah a bright future indeed

On August 07 2011 06:42 Daray wrote:


Flying in a 10 person team to a LAN tournament. Yeah a bright future indeed

On August 07 2011 06:42 Liudo wrote:


Good summary. Unfortunately the match-up I enjoy watching the most is anything with RMP, including RMP mirrors. RMP is possibly the most classic WoW 3 man arena team, and some of the most famous arena teams have been RMP (like the Korean team Buttonbashers with their mage Orangemarmalade). The communication you need to co-ordinate the control and the burst between the 3 players is extremely high-level. Unforunately the downfall with this combo is the weakness of WoW PvP: it's highly balanced around PvE and flavour-of-the-month setups. So right now in Cata anything with a warlock is extremely strong. I imagine it's no accident that the two teams in the final are shadowcleave. And that's what's been so frustrating all along with WoW arena: it had a lot of potential, but ultimately Blizzard made a rational economic decision not to support arean balance because it's simply too hard to balance arena and PvE.

Blizzard have even admitted that making arenas was a mistake, and that if they did it all again they would have gone forward with competitve BGs as the original model of competitve PvP.

On August 07 2011 06:44 Thorakh wrote:
Wait what? They had the Foo Fighters? God damn, why did I have my own music on... I've been listening to shit all day and just when I decide to listen to my own music they decide to put good songs on.