S6 so far
Posted 06-11-2009 at 10:30 AM by Bloodwraith
So I've been playing S6 as unholy DK.
I arena with friends that I've been playing with for years (since preBC). We've all got better at PvP now we're trying to be competitive. Having played together so long helps a lot with communication on teamwork.
In 2v2 right now I'm playing with my Holy pally friend. The team is low rated but we're matchmaking at 1900-2k. So far we're 19-13 although to begin with we were 9-0. We can counter some comps but others can just own us. Once I'm out of defensive cooldowns its GG.
Any team that has a pally as the prot healing sec is basically a win for us. They have no instant heals so With a good rotation of stuns/pummels we can force a bubble and then repeat again for a kill.
Any team with a druid is going to be a pain. Cyclone rotations and innervate owns us it most cases unless we can gib someone very quickly.
I've noticed this season is a lot more like TBC seasons. A lot of 2v2 fights become mana wars and it's very hard to gib someone down. CC is a lot more dominant.
In 3v3 we're at 1950 (got weapon the other day
). We run Unholy DK/Holy Pally/Feral Druid. Sometimes a warrior will run in my spot or he will take the druid's spot. It's fun to play. We've got some decent strats for comps we keep seeing.
I play on Altar of Storms Alliance. It is a terrible server so our 3v3 is #5 alliance 3v3. We're going to try to get 1975 tonight and then we'll be the #3 3v3 on the server
. We'll probably hit 2k sometime soon.
I haven't done much 5v5 although I would like to.
I like playing DK more than I liked playing my warrior in S5. I haven't gone back but I'm sure it's a bit more fun now that arms isn't terrible.
Yesterday I went back to frost pvp spec for BG's. I have to say if you haven't tried this, you should. Your obliterate and frost strike crit so much you can burst someone down in a couple GCD's (My scourge strike rarely seems to crit but does around 4k non crits). I tried it for 2v2 yesterday and it was ok. Players run a lot more resil in arena so your crit's won't be as ridiculously high. We eneded up going 2-5 but the losses were more counter comp than they were outplayed. I think that spec would be my main one if I ran with a druid and had XT sigil.
I may try blood one of these days so I can have a reference for when I put in the blood section to the DK PvP guide.
How has everyone else's S6 been so far?
I arena with friends that I've been playing with for years (since preBC). We've all got better at PvP now we're trying to be competitive. Having played together so long helps a lot with communication on teamwork.
In 2v2 right now I'm playing with my Holy pally friend. The team is low rated but we're matchmaking at 1900-2k. So far we're 19-13 although to begin with we were 9-0. We can counter some comps but others can just own us. Once I'm out of defensive cooldowns its GG.
Any team that has a pally as the prot healing sec is basically a win for us. They have no instant heals so With a good rotation of stuns/pummels we can force a bubble and then repeat again for a kill.
Any team with a druid is going to be a pain. Cyclone rotations and innervate owns us it most cases unless we can gib someone very quickly.
I've noticed this season is a lot more like TBC seasons. A lot of 2v2 fights become mana wars and it's very hard to gib someone down. CC is a lot more dominant.
In 3v3 we're at 1950 (got weapon the other day
). We run Unholy DK/Holy Pally/Feral Druid. Sometimes a warrior will run in my spot or he will take the druid's spot. It's fun to play. We've got some decent strats for comps we keep seeing. I play on Altar of Storms Alliance. It is a terrible server so our 3v3 is #5 alliance 3v3. We're going to try to get 1975 tonight and then we'll be the #3 3v3 on the server
. We'll probably hit 2k sometime soon.I haven't done much 5v5 although I would like to.
I like playing DK more than I liked playing my warrior in S5. I haven't gone back but I'm sure it's a bit more fun now that arms isn't terrible.
Yesterday I went back to frost pvp spec for BG's. I have to say if you haven't tried this, you should. Your obliterate and frost strike crit so much you can burst someone down in a couple GCD's (My scourge strike rarely seems to crit but does around 4k non crits). I tried it for 2v2 yesterday and it was ok. Players run a lot more resil in arena so your crit's won't be as ridiculously high. We eneded up going 2-5 but the losses were more counter comp than they were outplayed. I think that spec would be my main one if I ran with a druid and had XT sigil.
I may try blood one of these days so I can have a reference for when I put in the blood section to the DK PvP guide.
How has everyone else's S6 been so far?
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Druid teams are rather difficult when it's you and a healer, but I play a double DPS team, myself in Unholy and a Mutilate rogue for my partner, and he generally has enough CC on whatever healer we run into that I can burst down their DPS while he keeps their healer on lockdown.
Interestingly enough, I find that I tend to do better in arenas wearing my full tanking set and just switching the rune on my weapon, as opposed to wearing DPS gear with the small amount of resilience I have. My rogue partner does his in complete PvE gear, and we've won quite a few. We just started a couple weeks ago and we're sitting close to 1200 now, we've been winning enough games to get points at the start but now that we're actually starting to get a little more serious about it and instead of just piddling around going up 400 points or so a week, we're gonna make a run for it this weekend and see just how high we can take it.
I tried blood for a long time, and Rune Tap was outstanding, especially when glyphed to help your partner and with Vampiric Blood used also, but I find Unholy to be much better still. I'm debating picking up Unholy Blight as well in an attempt to unstealth my opponents early in a fight as well, although I haven't tried it yet.Posted 06-11-2009 at 12:21 PM by Crono
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