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SK-Gaming sponsors random scrubs. ProjectLiveStream features me, Oh yeah.

no.spam@gameriot.com (Icematiklol) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:55:50 -0400

SK-Gaming seems to have lowered their standards to pickup a random German team over other top Cyclone teams. These guys have not been heard of by anybody in WoW and a quick armory of the players shows their team at an amazing, 1850 rating.

Surely these guys are looking promising and I'm positive they will bring in some serious dollar back to the organisation. If this is what SK-Gaming is derailing into, the E-Sports surrounding WoW does not look promising when random teams such as this one is picked up.

http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/22846-Sansibars_World_of_Warcraft_team_joins_SK_Gaming

If you want to sponsor a good team, at least sponsor me - I'm better than these 3 random German scrubs together. Look at the almighty 'Flashays' team. They begged every German sponsor to pick them up and finished an amazing, last place.

SK-Gaming mentions Blutdurst being an amazing battlegroup (no it isn't lol, i conquered rank 1 there pretty easily). The german players found on the german BG's are nothing compared to Cyclone players whichever way you look at it. Even Phildryzen/Sanchez and co are jokes and haven't achieved anything - drop them already.

If you want a team that will get you serious dollar, stop picking up random German scrub retards at 1750 and give me a whisper ingame.

ProjectLiveStream:

I'm sure you've all heard of ProjectLiveStream, and if you haven't - check it out. www.projectlivestream.com.

I'm the main feature of the website (obviously). You can visit it and sign up just for the pure reason of watching me play and dominating scrubs like Hydra on a daily basis. The BETA's coming up soon and you'll want your place in the BETA test, so sign up now.

Additionally, you'll be able to watch pve scrubs (who haven't ever got past 1900) such as Forteh, Boozt, Serennia etc. But who the **** are these nonamers anyway, we all know you'll be there to watch me.

Looking for an EU Paladin for 2300 rated 2v2 on Cyclone

no.spam@gameriot.com (Icematiklol) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:24:59 -0500

****Searching for an EU Holy Paladin for 2v2 on Stormscale Alliance, Cyclone "EU".****

Current team rating: 2300
Setup: FeralDruid/HolyPaladin

I am searching for an EU Holy Paladin for 2v2 on Stormscale EU Alliance which is located on the Cyclone battlegroup. Due to problems with my current team-mate, we have decided to discontinue playing together and as such, I am in search of a new Holy Paladin.

The setup is fairly complicated but is easy to understand and to adapt to after several games. Things such as Judgements, Freedoms and Hammer of Justices are crucial to be timed at the right time and co-ordination is needed for all aspects of the game. I am aiming for rank 1 on Cyclone in the 2v2 bracket and also the 3v3 bracket (Yes, I need a holy paladin for 3v3).

Ofcourse, you should have experiance above Gladiator range in all brackets prefferably and know how to adapt to new setups fairly quickly. I don't mind starting a new team so that you can learn as we go up in rating - as long as there's progress.

Additionally, I would like a Paladin who already has PvE gear from Naxxramas 25 with several good trinkets and PvP gear (Deadly). I can get you the gear if you need it, but I'd prefer if you already have some PvP gear.

Last, but not least - I hate 'ragers' and 'queue dodgers'. If you are either of these, you wont go well with me since I despise raging and prefer to discuss losses in a mature manner rather than raging at each other. You should be able to recognise English humour (general flaming) and not be offended by it since I nor anybody else in the same Ventrilo means it in an offensive way.

Some standard stuff you should be able to inherit into your current playstyle:

- I am a defensive player. Games will take 10-30minutes because of how much I 'peel'. I will regularly Cyclone & Root to make sure we never lose due to my Paladin dieing.

- Feral Druids have insane burst on demand. You have to be able to co-ordinate when a burst oppurtunity becomes available so that we can push for the game.

- Co-ordination. Co-ordination is the main success in any top team and the co-ordination has to be there. You have to be able to do things without me asking for them. You have to have the ability to call our burst switches yourself instead of relying on me to do so. Things which fit into this catagory consist of things such as Freedoming me instinctively.

Migration Info:

I wont be migrating to any servers or any other Battlegroups. I migrated to Stormscale for competition and currently find the competition of the top teams quite challenging. If this was to ever change, I would migrate in search of better competition.

- Icematikx & Icematikz

I got 3 Brutal Glad Titles. What about you scrubs?

no.spam@gameriot.com (Icematiklol) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:02:57 -0400

So after flexing my awesome Druid skills on every battlegroup and being carried by my t6 belt as Sonny says, I managed to pickup Brutal Glad on 3 battlegroups (I only have 3druids LoL) and show the world that I am the best Druid in the world.

HydrÃ¡'s got nothing on me this time. Your celebrity girlfriends and motorbike gangsta crew means nothing to me, I have 3 Brutal Gladiator titles *****.

I sat in my basement for the past 1year hardcore training for this moment to happen, I even raided for my t6 belt to carry me to 2.6k. My partners, ofcourse all have PvE gear (2500AP or I don't play with you). It's just how I ride in the ghetto - you get PvE gear or you don't play with me, it's as simple as that.

So I'll logon tomorrow, pickup my 3drakes and showoff my 3 Brutal Gladiator titles outside Ironforge and Orgrimmar and watch the fanboys whisper spam me and emote me. On a plus side, I also got a phone call off Jessica Alba (Hydra's ex girlfriend), and now she's digging me. She knows I'm the best in the world now and she's all over me like Cherez is all over his sister.

I tell ye HydrÃ¡, you're nothing now bro. NOTHING. Icematik is where the ****'s at bro, I'm flooded with celebrity girlfriends and starred in magazines across the world.

Hey, some guy even wrote a song about me because I'm just that good.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g

I hope you have fun with your Gladiator titles.

Good job Blizzard, 3.0 is amazing. Even Zalgradis can get rank 1 now.

no.spam@gameriot.com (Icematiklol) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:13:57 -0400

Good job Blizzard, I just got oneshotted by a Ret pala during a stun which has a 20second CD.

I rerolled druid fotm and you ruined it Blizzard, YOU RUINED IT.

I'M A PAYING CUSTOMER, I REROLLED DRUID AND YOU RUINED IT DAMNIT. YOU RUINED IT ALL, THE LIFEBLOOM SPAM, THE 50SECOND CC ON WARRIORS, YOU RUINED IT WITH YOUR GOD'DAMN RETRI***ADIN PALADINS.

Bloody hell Blizzard, what the hell have you done with this game? I just played some UALock/Spriest and a bloody ENHANCEMENT SHAMAN outhealed our DPS with his bloody SPIRIT WOLVES.

WOW AS AN E-SPORT? E-SPORT HAS NOW DIED, EVEN ZALGRADIS CAN GET RANK 1 NOW.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FREE RANK 1 ZALGRADIS, NO LONGER WILL YOU BE STUCK AT 1700 WHINING ABOUT SEASON 4. YOU'RE RANK 1 THIS TIME BRO, RANK 1.

It's hammer time, HAMMER TIME BABY.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JomHWt7p6-c

Sonny/Runehx/HydrÃ¡ involved in wintrading. Brutal Wintrader Sonny Inc.

no.spam@gameriot.com (Icematiklol) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:50:46 -0400

So, on Cyclone there was abit of competition between myself and BloÃ³dx's team and Sonny/Runehx/Mysticalx/Behcet's team as I'm sure most of Cyclone know.

After investigating different things and talking to alot of close people to Sonny/Mystical/Runehx it appears Sonny/Mysticalx/Runehx have wintraded their way to 2500. HydrÃ¡ was also involved with the wintrading.

Most of the games played in their team are wintraded with few games actually legitimatly played. The story is complicated but I will try to explain what has happened and how the wintrading happened.

Â It all started when Mysticalx/Behcet hit 2200 as Paladin/Warrior with Runehx/HydrÃ¡ sitting around 2450. Behcet went into the hospital sick and MysticalX asked Behcet whether he could play his account to help get up the rating of the team - Behcet said yes. MysticalX and his warrior friend wintraded with HydrÃ¡ and Runehx to get 2400. If you look at both teams, Mysticalx/Behcet went up 200rating and HydrÃ¡ went down 200rating. After this wintrading occured, Runehx/Sonny joined Mystical/Behcet's and farmed low rated teams up to 2500 until their PR's matched the team rating. Once the PR's matched the Brutal Gladiator range, Sonny/Runehx stopped queueing and resulted to other tactics to farm down the top teams.

By simply browsing the armory, you can notice that as Mystical/Behcet's team went up, Hydras team went down. Once the wintraded occured, Runehx joined the wintraded team and continued to farm low PR'd teams.

As our team approached 2500, Sonny played with Altik (Perhaps Runehx playing Altik?) in a new team and took us 3-2. Nobody was supposed to know that Sonny was playing the Druid, hence why Altik/Sonny disbanded the team after winning us 3-2. Sonny/Altik(runehx?) have now made a new team - which they are potentially going to wintrade with Sonny's main team once the team has been leveled to a sufficient rating. They are also using this team to farm down the top teams without having to worry about their own ratings on Stormscale.

http://eu.wowarmory.com/team-info.xml?r=Ravencrest&ts=2&t=Mutilate+Altik+and+Sonny&select=Mutilate+Altik+and+Sonny

The above team is the team that Runehx/Sonny are using to farm the high rated teams without having to worry about their own team.

With Sonny/Runehx/Mysticalx sitting at a comfortable 2500 and the ability to farm down top teams when they play on another accounts - this is a guarenteed free Brutal Gladiator. To get to 2500, not only have they wintraded with HydrÃ¡ and farmed lowrated teams for 100rating, they have also resorted to unfair tactics by playing Altik/Cutyboots characters.

Even though Sonny/Runehx/Mysticalx have wintraded their way up to 2500 and used other peoples accounts to farm teams down, they will still resort to wintrading.

The team they have made on Altik's character will be used for wintrading purposes should our team come close to their team rating.

Also, our horde friend Azox has threatened to wintrade with Sonny in 2v2 to help Sonny achieve Brutal Gladiator. Azox's motives for this were simply disliking Bloodx (my rogue partner). Rather disgraceful play considering these are some of the players in EU. Where is the competition? All I see is wintrading, low point farming and disgusting deceitful tactics being used to guarentee Sonny rank 1.

I have a screenshot of Sonny admitting that he will wintrade with Azox because me and BloÃ³dx wouldn't queue against Sonny due to Sonny being Dreamstate and me being resto - even though we beat them 1-0 in our first game against them.

http://img380.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sonnywintradevn6.jpg

The above screenshot shows Sonny admitting the fact that he will wintrade with Azox should our team be a competing team for Brutal Gladiator. He states that because we didn't face them in arranged games - he has the motives and is allowed to wintrade to rank one because of this.

Sonny/Runehx/HydrÃ¡ have done nothing but use manipulative techniques to help Sonny/Runehx/Mysticalx get rank one.

The funny thing about this all, is that Sonny kicked Behcet from the team because Behcet knew about the wintrading. While Behcet was in hospital, sick, Mysticalx/Runehx/HydrÃ¡ abused his account to help wintrade over 200rating to Sonny's new team.

Sonny is a great player and probably the best Druid on Stormscale, but using such lame and pathetic tactics to guarentee rank one is a disgrace. Sonny knew damn well that he didn't have the effort and dedication to get rank one, whereas me and BloÃ³dx had the time available. He knew we'd get rank one and Sonny simply didn't want to lose the title like he did last season. He cares SO much about the god'damn title that hes wintraded, he's abused his friends, he's done everything under the sun to guarentee that the title is his.

Believe what you may, choose whichever side you want - sympathise with Sonny for not getting the title or understand that Sonny does NOT deserve the Brutal Gladiator title. Sonny for me, is nothing but a pathetic loser who cannot admit defeat.

Azox, I hope you die in a fire. You're the reason we are no longer trying for rank one. You and Sonny are both pathetic and you deserve to be banned from this pathetic game.

Should anybody require more evidence of the wintrading and potential wintrading, I can include IRC logs, MSN chatlogs with close friends of Sonny/Runehx and screenshots of teams going down while Sonny's gos up.

Sonny, you sir, ARE A PATHETIC SORE LOSER.

Are Druids as Powerful as they once were?

no.spam@gameriot.com (Icematiklol) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:55:50 -0400

So, with all the recent double heavy physical DPS running around in both 2v2 and 3v3, is the Druid class really that strong anymore compared to back in season 3?

I just lost 100rating to a FeralDruid/Rogue playing my usual Warrior/Druid. This setup has so much on-demand burst that although you may be 100% hp currently, 5seconds later you're down to 40%. Once the wounding poisons get stacking and global cooldowns start delaying your healing, it's really impossible to outheal if both prominently stay on you.

Your Warrior can only assist you so much, and that's the problem with the Druid setups now. As the DPS scales so much better, the healing of Druids hots is reduced and creates a target alot more nukeable than back in season 2-3. HOT's work like DOT's, they scale alot less than direct healing - so as DPS classes increase their damage (rogues/warriors), druids don't directly increase their healing capability alot.

People are realising that Druids are one of the easiest "hardswitch" targets and can be taken down rather quick. In 3v3, we meet RMP's who no longer tunnelvision my Priest, but rather switch to me very often. In a long drawn out game, they can win by me going oom and never having an oppurtunity to drink - my Priest can't survive alone and neither can I. We only have a Warrior to assist us, but he can't do anything reliable due to Novas & Sheeps. Sure, I don't play the best setup around, but it's fun at least.

Rogue/Rogue is also an annoying setup dominating the 2v2 bracket currently on Blackout. This setup will dominate Druids to hell and make sure they queue dodge for the rest of their lives. 4Vanishes is simply unhealable as Druid/Warrior and for most other Druid setups. Druid/Warlock is probably the only Druid/DPS setup which can beat Rogue/Rogue, and even then, if both rogues are Undead it's a damn pain in the ass.

Well anyway, we finished at 2300 2v2 and somewhere in the 2000 bracket in 3v3 on Blackout after taking our well-deserved losses. I did some 3v3 with Kadis/Inflame today and hit somewhere around 2250 on Cyclone in 3v3. We met some weird setup, Mage/Mage/ElementalShaman. They tunnelvisioned Inflame the whole game, and damn was that hard to outheal. The pressure chain-shatter combos followed by an Elemental Shamans burst is rather intensive to say the least. Warrior/Warlock/Druid really is a powerful setup and you can pretty much beat every setup except for the high-rated RMP's and double melee's.

The point of the whole post is to say that hey, Druids dominate the 2v2 bracket right now, but with the amount of setups coming out to counter druids, can we expect them to do so well in Season 4? People know how Druids work, how Druids play and furthermore, how to counter Druids. People adapt and take advantage of catching a Druid in caster form and exploit that to create burst which isn't recoverable through HOT's.

The 3v3 bracket is definitly doing better in terms of less Druid activity. RMP's, shadowplay, paladin/warrior/rogue (made to counter Druids) are all doing very well. The Druid class definitly isn't what it is anymore compared to back in season 3, and hopefully we can notice a rise in paladins/shamans to bring some more competition into the brackets.

Changed the title to something more suited.