Heya guys!! So I totally forgot to talk to you about 5v5 Arena from last week, heh. So let’s jump right in. First three matches were awful. Just AWFUL. No one talked, communication was crap, targets we’re getting split DPS, etc… You name it, and it was going wrong. So we stopped and talked for a second.
I was getting a little scattered and contributed to the problem. Since everyone was assisting off of me, I can’t change targets. Yet it was sometimes necessary to do so to spread diseases, throw a Strangulate, etc… Now yes I know the best of the best can do all of that with macros and mouseovers without ever changing targets. But I’ve never broken 2k rating, so I am obviously not the best of the best. 
I changed our Main Assist to Lia, our Fury Warrior. We also made sure people started calling out targets. That worked wonders. So how did things go? Erm…mediocre really. People were a bit out of it and we had a new team who has not played together at all. I’m not so sure people were 100% PvP spec’d either. We also had to sub in a SP for 3 matches as a favor. But we pulled out some wins and didn’t loose that much rating.
So where is the upside? Well, the Paladin healer I had tried to get flaked out on me. Probably mostly due to the holidays. But by dumb luck we got Akhan (Resto Shaman in my guild Sleepless Knights) to join us. He was a S3/S4 Gladiator. And we have Lia, who was a S1 Gladiator on Rashera. While in current gear a Resto Shaman is a bit squishy, he is one hell of a player.
It’s going to take some practice and time for us to become a solid team. We’re going to have to lose a bit before we can win. But the makeup, and the caliber of players, should prove to be very solid in the long run. Team Compostion:
- Arcane PoM/Pyro Mage
- Unholy Death Knight (may swap to Frost after 3.0.8)
- Fury Warrior
- Retribution Paladin
- Restoration Shaman
The concept is straight forward. I drop an AMZ somewhere where the Shaman/Mage would like it, then we uncork everything we’ve got into someone. So long as we don’t newb it up, they pretty much die. Even if they get a bubble, spell damage from Ret and DK, combined with PoM/Pyro finishers still = a death you know?
One of the upsides to the build is that even after everyone has a ton of Stam and Res, “outlast” teams will still have a massive problem against our comp. It brings so much massive burst down to bear on one target that it is nearly impossible to save them. Throw a Strangulate out, the mage throws out a Counterspell, and burn down a target. /WIN
Now…whether or not we execute that well remains to be seen, hehehe. 
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
Tags: PvP
