Feral Druid/Warlock/Rogue - 3s Video Rundown

For those of you who check the videos on WM.com religiously, I assume many of you have taken at least a peek at this video; seeing as it has been on the top ten for about a week now.  It is quite an unorthodox setup, and interestingly enough, I was kinda impressed with the damage output of this build.  It is a slight variant of the full CC team seen with resto druid/sl lock/harp rogue, except they replaced their team with a .5 dps, instead of a double dps setup; making it one of the only feral druid setups i've seen in 3s hit over 2k this early in the season.

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=57196

The interesting thing about this team is that, regardless of how much you think a BoP could just own these guys in the a$$hole, a well played druid can get around that BoP with ease.  These days, a lot of druids have enough mana with feral to throw HoTs on their team, have the ability to shift out for a few clutch cyclones for an early kill, and still have enough mana to go in and out of forms to feral charge heals.  I consider this setup to probably have the most awareness coming from the druid, as the warlock is the main CC'er and the rogue is the one doing most of the pressure.

Now, when I first checked out this video, and was wondering whether or not a 2k team should be even really considered, seeing as 2k is more or less the "average" for a pretty decent team; I realized that it isn't so much the rating, but the fact that close to any setup CAN counter some other setup.  I talked with Shaniqua, the warlock on this team; and apparently this team is a 100% counter to the ever so popular RPM comp.  A few of the fights in this video show the burst potential against RPM, and I totally agree with him.  The damage output these guys have on the priest is just insane, and with a warlock CC'ing their rogue and mage with trigger fears, the priest can't even think about dispelling them due to the sheer damage a druid/rogue can put together.  Seeing these disc priests drop within the first few seconds of the fights is quite amazing, and although a few of the fights got close; every player on this team is kinda an "op" class that can dish out a ton of damage, without worrying a whole lot about mana.  This is good because games where they can't get an early kill, don't really fk them in the long run; which in itself can be huge.

Frankly, watching this setup I can honestly say it is not really my style to run something like this; maybe it is because I prefer healing on my druid, and if I wanted to go play a dps class i'd play my mage.  But seeing people who enjoy playing arenas, take a combo I guarantee nobody else in the battlegroup is running (seriously, that is) and push it over 2k in the first day or 2 of the season; i'd say is an accomplishment in itself.  The editing in the video isn't exactly superb, but I will say I got a nice little chuckle out of the silly intro.  The fights are pretty decent (although, all these arena mods that just spam your screen have got to go....in EVERY video) and at least at the bare minimum show what this comp is supposed to do.  Overall i'd give it the following.

2/5 - Editing

4/5 - Quality of Fights

5/5 - Originality  (lets face it, if I see another RPM gladiator vid I might switch to Hello Kitty Island Adventure.)

Lastly, because I know this comment is coming; yes, I do think that 3 phenominal players could even make this comp work on BG9.  It is funny how many people, when they see an unorthodox setup like this, immediately don't give it any credit because there isn't a top 10 team in BG9 running it, so it can't be good.  Why make judgements about something that you haven't even run, or run into yet?  Personally, because i've been around the block and seen every corner of this game server wise, I find it funny that people go diss other battlegroups for not being #1 because their not in BG9 so it must be hella ez, for running a retarded setup, and for then making a video; but then we got BG9 players over here competing for the largest sum of money ever to be seen in a 3v3 tourny, and they decide to run rogue/rogue/feral druid, or rogue/feral druid/pally.  (Congrats to Pandemic who won it though.  Stickin' with your roots is the way to go.)

Yeah, thanks BG9, your losses in the 3v3 tournament taught me to never run feral druid/pally/rogue in 3s.  Just hope the huge loss of cash was worth the "well, ****, that didn't work." 

Overall pretty good movie, and a nice saturday watch if you are just waking up at 12:40 in the afternoon, still in your Winnie the Pooh footie pajamas, and are feelin' just snugglin' up in the o'l computer chair and watchin' some pee vee pee with your friends The Frosted Flakes.

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