05-14-2009, 01:19 PM
So Higgles and I had a frustrating start last night. We were at 1747 rating when the week started and went something like 4 and 11 to get going this week. To encourage other healadins feeling like they just can't help the team live long enough in the bursty two's, though, we found our stride and ended up going something like 32 and 21, clearing our goal for the week of 1850.
2v2 is really fun this season, by the way, at least at these mediocre ratings. There is a large variety of teams in the field, and while I expect it to narrow some as we go up, it is a fun ride right now!
For example, if we see a warrior, DK, or paladin standing alone at match start and he has mark of the wild up, we know its a druid...but we have no idea which kind until the druid pops to cyclone one of us and goes tree or starts shredding my DK (literally) while stun-locking him. A lot of the fun, once we found a stride, was maybe losing once to teams that surprise us with their comp and then beating the snot out of them the next 1-3 times (like the double-dps feral druid team we ran into).
We also got comfortable enough with our play last night that we were much more effectively chaining our cooldowns and coordinating our burst against enemy healers, and I was playing a lot more aggressively (generally leading off with holy shock on our target + focus macro's repentence on his teammate, and then hammering either our target or his teammate based on which one is the healer).
Amusingly, with 1850 rating and almost 2k points banked I didn't buy a healy weapon though - picked up the furious gladiator's bonegrinder. I'm running as ret in our 3v3, with Higgles (DK) and Velion (disc priest) as mates - we hit 1827 last week and I think we'll go higher, particularly with both DPS running upgraded weapons.
Fun season to get into in my opinion.
2v2 is really fun this season, by the way, at least at these mediocre ratings. There is a large variety of teams in the field, and while I expect it to narrow some as we go up, it is a fun ride right now!
For example, if we see a warrior, DK, or paladin standing alone at match start and he has mark of the wild up, we know its a druid...but we have no idea which kind until the druid pops to cyclone one of us and goes tree or starts shredding my DK (literally) while stun-locking him. A lot of the fun, once we found a stride, was maybe losing once to teams that surprise us with their comp and then beating the snot out of them the next 1-3 times (like the double-dps feral druid team we ran into).
We also got comfortable enough with our play last night that we were much more effectively chaining our cooldowns and coordinating our burst against enemy healers, and I was playing a lot more aggressively (generally leading off with holy shock on our target + focus macro's repentence on his teammate, and then hammering either our target or his teammate based on which one is the healer).
Amusingly, with 1850 rating and almost 2k points banked I didn't buy a healy weapon though - picked up the furious gladiator's bonegrinder. I'm running as ret in our 3v3, with Higgles (DK) and Velion (disc priest) as mates - we hit 1827 last week and I think we'll go higher, particularly with both DPS running upgraded weapons.
Fun season to get into in my opinion.
Jormuttar is Soo Fat...