Posts Tagged ‘RMP’

Arena Footage

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

As promised, here is some video captured during our arena matches last weekend. The matches are between 1850 and 1900 rating. We played many comps like beast cleave, mirror, spell cleave, TSG, etc. I spent a lot of time during these matches doing offensive dispelling, more than usual. The challenge of playing a disc priest is the balance between defensive and offensive play. I have had teammates get global’d during a holy fire cast.

RMP is a lot of fun because of the diverse strategies vs the various comps. We don’t just pick a target to try and global, we pick our CC targets and damage targets and switch when needed. Hopefully these matches offer some strategies for your RMP or other comp.

Match Breakdown:

Match 1: RMP

Get in combat early to prevent sap. Play very aggressive from the start. Offensive dispels on the mage/priest. Mage will CC the rogue while you hit their priest. If the priest doesn’t go down, switch to mage. Throw some defensive dispels on your rogue to help him stay in range. I wasn’t paying attention to the mage and got polymorphed and blinded (the reason Ballsagna went down).

Match 2: Beastcleave

Use CC early. Avoid the initial burst with bloodlust at all costs. I have been killed through pain suppression against this setup. Burn the shaman and CC the paladin. Try to pillar hump to keep hunter off of you. Dispel bloodlust if you have any extra globals.

Match 3: Double Healer (Druid/Disc Priest)/Warrior

CC the priest to take him out of the game and burn the warrior. Dismantle him before shield wall. If the initial burst fails, hard switch to the druid. They will try to outlast you (and they will) so burst is the key.

Match 4-5: TSG

The initial burst will usually be on you. Avoid it as long as you can. Be ready with pain suppression so you have a chance to last through strangulate. Hit the warrior HARD as he comes in to force him to go defensive and avoid a bladstorm on top of the damage. Shackle the DK’s gargoyle if possible. If the warrior gets a bladestorm on top of the strangulate, it is usually game over. Keep abolish disease up on everyone.

Match 6: Disc Priest/Mage/Paladin

We always go for the ret paladin against these comps. Try to force the bubble early and hope a Mass Dispel gets it off in one try. We started with a sap and full dispel of his buffs, then railed him.

Match 7: Warlock/Rogue/Disc Priest

CC on the rogue and dispel priest and burn. Priest can’t keep himself up through the burst.

Match 8: RMP (Shadowplay)

Hit their rogue. GG

Match 9: TSG

Watch the burst as before and hit the warrior hard. Don’t blow fear into a bubble like I do. Predict the burst and PS yourself before it happens. All damage on the Warrior while CC on the pally.

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Relentless Weapons; New Guild

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

I should be getting back to my regular posting now. I have been hunting every weekend and it doesn’t leave me time for much else. It will be nice to have a weekend without all the traveling. I am also starting a new guild (which I’ll talk about below) and that has been taking up my time. You can expect more posts in the next few weeks, so keep checking back.

1800

We have been pushing to get 1800 in our 2v2 team. The weapon boost is a big upgrade for Ballsagna for his DPS and also mine for the extra resilience allows me to gear more SP. We have been 1700+ for about a month now. We had saved up arena points to buy our weapons because our MMR was over 1800 long ago and we were expecting to hit 1800. Up until we hit a wall.

With my being gone every weekend and Ballsagna’s schedule, we were left with very few opportunities to play. This left us with late at night games on slow nights. Usually there were very few teams on for the night and most of them were not near our rating. Every time we got above 1750, we would get matched up against a geared team or a counter-comp and we would lose big points (17+).

We have gotten over 1775 nine seperate times in the past month and yet haven’t been able to get the right matchups to get that 1800. Hopefully it will just be a matter of time before we get the right matchups to hit 1800 and get our weapons.

Everyone Has Relentless Weapons

I recently saw a Paladin advertising in trade chat, “LF Disc Priest for 3v3 rated 1440 must have 230+ weapon”. I was floored. Our 3v3 rating is currently 1700 and none of us have 230 weapons. I am using a 219 MH and a level 78 OH. We started the season as fresh 80’s with no gear and have worked our way to where we are currently. Too often, I see bad players who have relentless weapons. It reminds me of a druid on my old server who, after 300 games, was rated 1200. He even has a relentless weapon.

This is especially true when you get around 1800 and you don’t have your weapons yet. Every team has relentless weapons and does double the damage that your team can. It is a lot of fun and encouraging to get there without gear. We play teams that should beat us because of the gear difference, but we outplay them for the win.

The only teams that I hate playing are the geared faceroll teams. We played a few last week that could drop me in a stun (25.2k health, 36% physical reduction, 1162 resilience, pain suppression, and other passive damage reduction talents). Even with our trying to stop their insane damage with every form of CC that we have at our disposal, there was no stopping them. I don’t even understand why people play those comps. To me, that wouldn’t be any fun.

Skill > Gear

While I generally subscribe to this statement, it is only true when gear isn’t a huge factor. If you took a veteran player with a fresh 80 against an ebay character that is full s7 gear, who would you bet on to win? While there are other factors that come into play, as long as the ebay character has basic knowledge of how to play, they will win because of their gear.

We would all like to say that skill is always more important than gear, but this is just not the case. The game does take skill to be good at, but it also takes gear. Just enjoy the times when you bear a mirror comp who has better gear or that 200-300+ rated team who you should never have played.

The best thing is to use your gear disadvantage to learn your class and comp more than the people who are pushing 3 buttons for wins. When you finally get the gear, you will be a much better player and your team will be playing like there is no gear difference instead of being used to outgearing everyone.

New Guild

When I transferred and faction changed, I was originally looking for a PvP oriented guild but instead joined a guild that my friend was in. I have never raided with them mainly because of the times that they raid and haven’t really gotten to know anyone. I decided to jump ship and join a PvP guild. The problem is that there aren’t any big PvP guilds left on Dragonmaw and the ones that I found are not that active anymore.

So I have decided to start a guild. We have some great ideas in store for events and how to make a PvP guild work and make it fun so people want to join. I still need to get signatures, but should be able to get those tonight and will start recruiting soon. I will be posting more details about the guild in future posts so check back here for news. Also, if you are interested in joining the guild, let me know. We always welcome new recruits.

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Welcome to k3b1

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Change to k3b1

We have switched gears on k3b1.com. There have been a lot of followers of our past endeavors. Many of you will remember Exigo, ESP, PC Gaming and further back to the classic k3b1 forums (if you don’t, i’ll be glad to tell you the stories). Today we are transforming k3b1 into a WoW blog. I will tell you why, but first let me share a little about who we are:

About Us and Our Condensed WoW Story

k3b1 stems from our names “Kent” and “Blake”. We coined that term many years ago when we first started programming games and making websites (dope fish + star wars). We are brothers who live in North Dakota.

We started playing WoW in early 2005. Over the years we have leveled many characters and made a lot of friends as well as some enemies. During this time we have logged over 600 days playtime combined. We have grown to know the intricacies of the game and the classes. We have spent time focused on PvE as well as PvP, have leveled both Horde and Alliance characters, and have led large raiding guilds as well as been members in them.

In vanilla WoW, we played a Warrior and Paladin on Hellscream US. We did not have the time to push for R13, so we did not have top of the line PvP gear. Even though we were undergeared, we beat many of our opponents by using game mechanics alone. I am reminded of Darafeln standing outside of IF and nobody would duel him because he just beat another 60 with his “lightsaber” (enchanted training stick). Because of the multiple hour que’s to log into Hellscream, we transferred to Dalvengyr in the first ever PvE to PvP transfers. Towards the end of vanilla, we got into raiding. Starting with MC and later going to ZG and AQ 20/40.

In BC, we kept our characters and started focusing on raiding. After leaving our guild over differences in opinions, we started our own guild and cleared Kara/Gruul and started on TK and SSC. At this point in time, the Dalvengyr population was very casual. It was extremely difficult to constantly get 25 people online for raids and there was a very small player pool to recruit from. We decided that we could have a lot more fun on a well populated and established realm. We decided to reroll.

We both started Blood Elf Paladins on Dragonmaw US. We played these characters until the end of S4 and decided to reroll again on Dalvengyr before WotLK came out (Dalvengyr had been selected as a “recommended” realm and the population bloomed). Darafeln started leveling a Shaman and I started leveling another Warrior. Before WotLK, I switched to leveling my 56 Paladin (which I had leveled in the Kara/Gruul days) due to the huge ret buffs before WotLK.

WotLK came out and we hit 80 on Shaman/Paladin. Our small guild cleared Naxx within a couple months and most of us were soon bored with Naxx. Darafeln then leveled a Rogue and some on his Paladin where as I leveled my warrior to 80. We started getting into PvP again and focused on Shaman/Warrior comp in S5/6. During this time we did a little Ulduar raiding but nothing major. As you may know, Shaman/Warrior is one of the worst comps during those seasons and we decided that we wanted to reroll a good PvP comp.

We convinced our friend to roll a Mage and I rolled a Priest. We were going to run a RMP comp in 3’s. We hit 80, transferred off of Dalvengyr back to Dragonmaw and faction changed to Horde to play with a bunch of old friends. We started the comp a couple months ago and thats when we decided to start this blog.

Our current main characters are:

Ferngully (Undead Priest, Dragonmaw US)

Ballsagna (Blood Elf Rogue, Dragonmaw US)

Our other 80’s include:

Blatzkowitz (Human Warrior, Dalvengyr US)

Macabuwia (Draenei Shaman, Dalvengyr US)

Contiguous (Dwarf Paladin, Dalvengyr US)

And other various characters 60+

Why the change

We have played WoW for almost 5 years. I know there are new players out there who are trying to pick up every new tidbit they can and also veterans who enjoy discussing WoW. This blog is the place for that. We want to share our knowledge with the WoW community; New players will find this blog both helpful and encouraging. We were all new at one time.

Another side to this is if you are a veteran player and really enjoy discussing the latest patch notes, class balance, BG’s, raids, etc. we love to discuss it also. We spend hours in vent some days discussing talent builds, glyphs, strategies, etc. We are looking to help out newer players while trying to get some good discussions going. Hopefully we make some friends along the way.

Welcome to k3b1

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