After who knows how many months of arena play, I finally got to face some of Silver Hand Horde's finest in competetive arena late last week while raising up a client's 2v2 team. Both teams were utilizing the easiest and most powerful matrices to climb the 2v2 bracket, Warrior/Druid and Warlock/Druid (season 2's Warrior/Paladin).
It was nice to gauge where the horde of our server was skill-wise, and I came away from those fights rejuventated. Our strat vs. druid teams revolves around finding the druid while stealthed (felhunter + double perception > Prowl), while I tank the dps. If we catch the druid stealthed, we have about an 80-85% win rate, but if we can't find him, and he pops out to heal, that drops our chances to about 50-50.
Tito knew our strat well, and was screaming for Crusty (his druid) to stay in the starting area, but I managed to bumrush their side of the BEM ramp, and catch the kitty in the opening salvo. Wasn't much of a match after some failed kiting attempts, and the team that's built to kill druids did just that. Eternia went into shredder mode, and we went on our way.
The very next queue, we got Nawakuna and Mobius, for the delicious Warrior/Druid combo, and while I managed to tank Mobius longer than necessary, we just couldn't find that darn cat! Nawa eventually popped out, and we got on him, but aside from dropping the gear-bomb on that team, I'd give them a decent shot if we ever rematch. Nawa moves like a great arena druid. The match was in Lordaeron, so that alter is a druid wet dream, but I was nonetheless very impressed with this druid of the horde.
I'm expecting great things from Nawa once he gears up, hopefully finding a more reliable 3v3 matrix (ran into him with Konfucious this week as well. Not a pretty team, but maybe they know something I don't), and elevating his rating to at least 2100, where all those druid teams reside.
Tito has a fantastic grasp on the warlock class, and after talking with him for a bit, I hopefully steered him toward a more reliable climbing strat. They had been playing a graded CC execute team, and while I acknowledge I've only been playing warlock/druid for a couple weeks with Vlak, we're floating a 2,000 rating with very little coordination, and Vlak in season 1 gear. Playing the mana game seems to be foolproof for us, and as long as the pet lives, our win rating is something insane (I think it's at 90-10 right now when the pet lives). Execute teams are a lot of fun, and are much quicker matches, but for climbing 1900-2200, you just can't beat a mana drain team for win percentage and reliability.
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Great work.
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