Yesterday I posted a video of myself, Zach, and Mandy's boyfriend going up against a mage, priest, and druid combination. Today's video of Friday's matches includes the three of us going up against the "Druid Trifecta." That's one druid of each class: a moonkin, a feral, and a resto.
We don't have a very hard time with this one, and we get them down without much trouble. The only real iffy point comes towards the end where I have to dodge away and get some bandages going on for myself, which isn't really a bad thing.
Regarding the clicking that I'm doing, it's there for two reasons. First, to show you more clearly what skills and combinations I'm using. Secondly, I often times click to offset my keyboard use. Think of it this way: I have five or six skills that I'm using my main fingers for, and I have those skills planned out. I can position the mouse over the seventh skill I'll eventually use to make it easy to use when the time comes.
I often times active one off emergency actions with my mouse: soul stones, last stand, etc... I should have had bandages on my bar – but didn't. If I did I wouldn't have had to open my bag, which just takes valuable time. You can also see that I don't exactly hit the B key on my first try either – I accidently hit N, which just takes up more precious seconds.
These videos and commentaries are not meant to be the ultimate guide to arena play, but a guide on how three writers work to become better at PvP and this aspect of the game; and to show off what's happening over on the arena tournament server. Hopefully we can all learn a thing or two from them and become better when facing arena opponents.
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4-20-2008 @ 9:08PM
Krazen said...
sorry to be a downer but that is probably the worst group iv seen horrible(talking about druid trifecta) those druids were a easy fight so try posting awesome battles. a
ll the druids should have been in cat and prowling oh and feral druids aren't really that good in arenas, might as well have a rogue.
And as for clicking vs pushing buttons i think its just who the person is because when i do buttons i don't have it in my memory what im pushing and there are too many to push for me(druid here). Also i'm a pretty fast clicker (play some fps, CoD4 ftw)lol wow sorry for the rant.
So yeah post some better footage of you guys winning or losing, so that we can learn from your mistakes or successes.
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4-20-2008 @ 9:09PM
Eternalpayn said...
Sorry man, but with that rating, you shouldn't be defending your clicking, or showing off what skills you use. You should be changing it.
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4-20-2008 @ 9:27PM
Brandon said...
hey, thats a nice bag addon, whats it called :)
i also agree that those druids weren't the best, but a win nonetheless.
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4-20-2008 @ 9:33PM
adam3039 said...
Yeah... for one you have a not-so-great combo. 2, the 3 druid combo is probably the worst ever. Might want to hire some people that know their PVP. Lately this site has just been a joke to PVP.. *cough* Adam *cough*
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4-20-2008 @ 9:34PM
Den said...
Like above not trying to be a downer, but not all of those druids didn't started in stealth. Seemed like you were fighting a pretty bad team. So I had a quick look at the fist vid you put up. I didn't see the mage used Ice Block before dying. Surly you have a better video then these? So far you've posted 2 that show how unskilled the other team was. Maybe post a loss instead, that way if you want advice(to learn as you say) people can actually provide it.
One really thing for your pally, even though s/he is playing ret s/he still needs to remove snares from you guys a blessing of freedom wouldn't go astray.
And stop defending clicking, as soon as you swap your sight focus to where your mouse is going you are no longer watching the fight, meaning you can miss a key pummel for intercept. Or a healer can slip out of combat and get a few quick sips in and you will have to go looking for them instead of knowing where to run.
I also play a druid and found that I couldn't find enough keys to bind skills to (epically with down ranking roots to level to save mana, fake rank 1 buffs to protect innervate from dispel/purge and so on) anyway I bought a new mouse and with 8 buttons (hehe), but it also works with modifier keys (shit/alt/control)in combination with my mouse and using all the keys around WASD I have key binds to spare.
You can also try moving your movement keys to ESDF if you still need more. Also research some macros, they can really help with saving key space.
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4-20-2008 @ 9:43PM
Den said...
oops got some typos in there, one bad one that was meant to be shift, sorry.
4-20-2008 @ 10:02PM
Zach said...
As the Ret pally in the video, I did remove snares on more than a few occasions. Blessing of Freedom I reserved for myself because I don't have Charge, Intercept, or Hamstring to catch up to opponents. At the end of that particular match, I swapped to heals, as one of our Warrs -- Adam, I believe -- ran low.
Not the best of fights, for sure, but more than anything I think we were just having fun. Adam's tongue-in-cheek bravado aside. My thoughts on the TR experience in a post soon.
4-20-2008 @ 10:50PM
Den said...
There was a moment in the other vid where 1 of the warriors used his trinket on a frost nova :P
4-20-2008 @ 11:04PM
Zach said...
No excuses for that one in that match. That was my oversight completely. Good call.
4-20-2008 @ 9:48PM
Behr said...
Let me get this straight, you guys were 3 melee classes and rent after the Moonkin first? .... you have bigger problems then your mouse and key usage.
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4-20-2008 @ 10:32PM
Zach said...
Moonkin as first target is arguable. He was chosen as the first target because he wasn't in stealth, whereas the other two were. Should we have swapped to the cat? Maybe. If we did, and he switched to bear, though, we'd have an even tougher time without any armor pen. As long as the cat is in cat, he isn't going to be casting anything and a boomkin with MS and Sunders is going to be hard to heal through and FF.
Remember, he's also the only ranged DPS. Going after any other target would leave him free to do whatever he wanted whereas keeping him close forces the Feral to stay near the group, making Sweeping Strikes or Whirlwind available options.
So yeah, I'd say the moonkin as a first target was fine.
4-21-2008 @ 3:47AM
Ruva said...
I'd say that's a fine target as well. Moonfire/Starfire spam is evil and they ALL do it.
4-20-2008 @ 9:52PM
James said...
Guys don't forget Adam is a e-sport athlete he knows what he is doing 1000% and this clearly has a place in this blog to show how awesome he is.
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4-20-2008 @ 10:01PM
allonblack said...
Sorry, but your PVP posts are pitiful. You guys are really really not good only further illustrated by your posting videos that display your best games against the worse of teams and it's painfully obvious.
Please leave the PVP videos to the pros and stop with this nonsense already.
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4-20-2008 @ 10:05PM
Freehugz said...
I'd recommend just showing these videos to your friends, not on wowinsider. This is just painful to watch.
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4-20-2008 @ 10:13PM
Quickshiv said...
For the videos It would be nice for you to narrate them instead of just plugging in some music. I wish more people would post "instructional" type vids instead of the random music.
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4-20-2008 @ 10:40PM
censorman said...
friends don't let friends click. (not that I like joo. :P)
41 programmable keys, 2 side buttons kill the MERC
http://www.ideazon.com/us/products/fanggamepad.asp
9 buttons and Polytetrafluoroethylene feet! I can't pronounce Polytetrafluoroethylene thus it ROOLZ!
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/390/359&cl=us,en
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4-20-2008 @ 11:11PM
Harlequinné said...
I wish it did run some people off this site...
Anyway, congratulations on the win! It was kind of amusing to see all those Taurens running around. Running with the bulls in Pamplona would be a nice vacation. ;)
And on the earlier comment about the snares: Blessing of Freedom has a nasty cooldown so it's not spammable like Cleanse.
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4-20-2008 @ 11:38PM
Zach said...
I believe Den knows that, Harlequinné. I think he was referring more to Cleanse, which I missed out on several times in the previous video. Perfectly valid comment.
4-20-2008 @ 11:12PM
solstiem said...
rofl. seeing your pathetic pee vee pee skills makes me laugh, especially when i read the article where you flame pvp in general. id suggest posting a video when you finally manage to crawl out of the 1500 range, and do not play a team that is clearly functionally retarded... flippin n00bz
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