choices are there, its just up to you to take up the choice. im not saying to go something unique as lolstep spec for rogues for example. im talking about the various talents like expose armor for example, almost ALL high end arena rogues dont take them. i do, and its working to my advantage. its it an entirely unique talent by just moving points? no, but is it different? yes. is it a choice? hell yes.

why my team arent fully geared yet? good question. we started only mid-season. and while we are starting up, we had no healer. we basically 5 dps as 5v5. we still managed around 1.6k ratings. until we got a priest. instantly we shot up to 1.7-1.8k ish. now we got a shaman healer to rotate with, again another milestone, 1.9-2kish ratings.

again, 2v2/3v3 is rock paper scissors, there is no denying yet. even 5v5 has RPS element to a certain extent, BUT its not to the point where it will make or break your team.
no matter how you see it, talent and gear matters. if ur insisting on my achievements are solely on skill, im deeply flattered, but i know well our level of "skills" are at. even if we got the skill, latency would be our handicap. so again, it would be gear/talents to back up what we lack in "skill".

Chin what time do you queue? I'm from horde-side Gorgonnash. Maybe we can queue at same time and get fair matches since we both oso suffering from TMNut

If I remembered correctly, all the oceanic realms are spread across different battlegroups. But it will be nice to play in a group with the most aussie laggers.

edit:

I'm not a good PvPer myself, but for this case make sure you refresh hamstring on the lock frequently so your druid kawan can kite the lock.

This post has been edited by Aggroboy: Oct 3 2007, 06:09 PM

most of the oceanic realms are in bg9, along with many older realms that were considered 'oceanic' back before they introduced oceanic realms ie. blackrock.

aggro, my arena time is nvr consistent, will play 2v2 3v3 whenever there's ppl. btw what's your name in gorgonash?

well my 2v2, not to say I want to go cookie butter build, just that he's my friend that I know, that want to play, so we play, yea he's a pally. and yes he Ebay his pally ... he's learning...

to Quaz,
Your ratings is pretty impressive I would say, keep up the good work
I play 5s more than 2s and 3s, I would have to disagree with you that latency wont be too much a problem. In 2k-2.1k ratings team with a solid strategy will make it there provided with good execution and being serious enough.

I've chat with many top page teams in 5s. well for my battlegroup, even 1.7k rating teams are all decked out with all possible arena gears or close.

What seperate the top page team with the 2k's rating teams is Execution/Time frame in terms of offensive or defensive. The team that can do it shortest time frame will triumph over the other team.

I see that you doing good with 4 dpsers and of cuz 4 dpsers will have the dmg to preassure the opponent even tho you dont interupt a heal or interupt a spell. Where your team are forcing the opponent to play your game.

Here's the quote from someone I respect "Their 3 men felt like putting out more dps than our 4 men dpsers". Execution/time frame.

Kicks/pummel are very important, as it prevent the burst that your team gonna take,
For example, your teammate at 5%, you'r on the shadow priest and he's casting Mind Blast, *dont you wish that you can kick that Mind Blast so that your teammate dont die?
and also important to prevent an almost kill to be suddenly topped up.
I'm sure you seen many situations that your focus fire target at about 1%-5% then it got healed to 20+% again.

and again, you'r a good pvper, gladiator is not far from our reach, best of luck

This post has been edited by Chinhui: Oct 4 2007, 02:39 AM

first of all thanks for the compliment, secondly, like it or not latency is still present and a problem. you being a melee i dont have to further elaborate.

chasing targets but still unable to touch them even when they are in range (in ur screen anyways) or watching healing bars fly by but unable to kick in time and just wasting GCD and 25 energy to kick blanks... is pretty damn fun. /endsarcasm.
granted, we just overcome them one way or another. no use to cry about something that cannot be changed, might as well get used to it and figure out something else to that is "lag friendly".

i mean we can sit on a bench, whining and crying how sucky latency is, but in the end, does it solve anything? not at all. so why not figure out ways to overcome it? as the saying goes, if there is a will, there is a way.

and no, we arent really rollin with 4dps'ers. we run with 2 setup, 3 dps and 4 dps, the setup that got us the 2k ratings and the most sucessful setup is our 3dps, not 4 dps. 4 dps as priest or shaman is just plain shitty. paladin/druids fit the role MUCH better. but we still do it anyways and deal with what we have cuz we dont have paladin/druids. we need to roll in our hunter/druid anyways and we dont leave out people
we still get results, and thats all that really matters.

that said, we started our 5v5 with 5 dps (believe it b****es) cuz we had no healers. then came along a priest
so we 4 dps with priest ^^
now our shaman grew up, so we add in shaman for sexy 3dps ^^

all in all, 3dps > 4dps. at least in our situation, ESPECIALLY when ur under latency influence. 4dps isnt as easy as many may think. it puts way too much stress to ur healers, and also dps'ers in cc'ing enemy healers or dps.

and i truly believe gladiator shouldnt be far from our reach, only need 100-200 ish ratings
best of luck to you too.

Currylaksa
I started arena quite late because used to focus on PvE. Now playing catch-up *sob

PVP tip and tricks pls visit http://www.gameriot.com/blogs/World-of-Ming/

Serious Arena?

"As of Friday, September 28 2007... It's one thing to be on the most competitive battlegroup in the entire U.S. but if BG9 is the cream of the crop then Tichondrius has to be the cherry on top. The server currently holds #1 through #12 5v5 placements on Bloodlust and is home to well known WSVG 3v3 competitors such as Pandemic, x6, and Insurrection. While long 2.2 patch delays have discouraged many players there is still weekly activity in the battlegroup's top ten.

http://www.gameriot.com/news/4369/Bloodlust-Ladder-Report-Tichondrius-Dominates/

Just wondering if there are any serious Arena players in Aman'thul server?

Looking to form a team to reach 1850 or 2k rating for the S3 stuff.

WRONG!!!! Serious PVP/Arena = ILLIDAN AV ALL STARSS!!

oh shi-

yes
it continues to haunt me till today
trauma =/

*picture sets being raped by 10 brawny men*

sorry
night elf priests chain casting star shards more like it

i wonder which hurts more... im currently in favor towards brawny men over star shards

starshard more pain >.<

so i take it you like men?

i hate druids

i only hate them when my latency is over 550

whyyy

paladins > druids

i like men as friends thank you very much