Preface: this article is somewhat of a response one of the another article that brought up the point that top arena players don't really care about nurturing new players or developing any sort of a mature community. Maybe this will be a catalyst for other players...in any regard, here it is.

As many of you know (or at least Klynxx, Ykoops, and the 3 other people who regularly read my blog) I recently released my first pvp arena video, Zuggy 1: Revenge of the Troll. The video features myself, Zugg…  More

In order to alleviate increasing queues and wait times Blizzard is once again offering free character transfers. The list of servers included in this round of free transfers is below.

Kind of funny to see Smolderthorn on the list, a server that has been virtually a revolving door for players and teams transferring to BG9. Though the last few weeks have seen nightly queues (something rarely seen on Smolderthorn) and arena wait times spiraling out of control.

Hopefully these free transfers will help…  More

Now I usually don’t get too excited about WoW PvP videos anymore, frankly they all end up looking about the same (my own included). You get the pretty standard, ok here is me playing X combo in Y bracket and we win without much effort at all. However, a recent video I saw on warcraft movies went well beyond the average.

 

Video: Destram – Killer Instinct II

Class: Rogue

Spec: 19/42/0 and 18/0/43

Download: http://files.filefront.com/Destram+Killer+Instinct2avi/;9476176;/file…  More

Athene, "best paladin in the world", has just released his full feature documentary on the his life!

"I, Merciless Gladiator Athene, who am also the best World of Warcraft player in the world, am now documentizing my life as a pro-gamer in a real movie (like Hollywood), for you guys, for free. My movie will show how good I am so the world can see, just like Jesus putted himself on the crouse to show ppl that he was a cool guy, I am putting myself on the cinema. I just heal ppl and …  More

So here we are, just under the 2-month mark for season three. Teams are beginning to establish themselves and fine-tune their various class combinations. Now, for me the game has always been centered around a couple very simple goals. First, gear out, second, win.

Over-simplistic? Perhaps, but when it gets right down to it that was always the objective. Regardless of if we’re talking about raiding or arena, it was always to “win”, to have the best record, to have the high…  More

Any PvP patch that Blizzard releases always begins with the same motive, balance, though they often end by creating a new host of imbalances. These imbalances frequently translate into these “chosen combos” for arena. Now certainly there have been severely overpowered specs, compositions and classes since arena began, though they all have been overshadowed by the revolution of hunter drain teams.

 

I can remember in the not so recent past a time when the object…  More

This topic has been posted a few different times on various forums and sites, though I feel due to it's importance it really needs repeating. Now patch 2.3.2 was supposed to eliminate the nagles algorithm, for me it had no change, so I gave this solution a try and it worked great.

My ping which was in the 380-400 range (due to some network issues) dropped into the 200-250 range.

Warning...if you aren't comfortable changing files in your registry you may just want to wait for blizzard …  More

Zuggy: Revenge of the Troll - Rogue/Priest 2v2 arena
Battlegroup 1 (Reckoning)
Team: My Drink and My Twostep
http://www.wowarmory.com/team-info.xml?r=Smolderthorn&ts=2&t=My+Drink+and+My+TwoStep&select=My+Drink+and+My+TwoStep&fl=1

All matches are filmed in arena, with the exception of one filmed in BEM, as 2v2 rogue / priest. This is my first experience with Vegas, fraps, and encoding, so my apologies on the quality.

Mods:
Ag unit frames
Proximo
Bongos2
OmniCC
Qua…  More

I can hardly remember the last time a blue posted on the rogue forums with anything other than the phrase “working as intended”, but December 21st is an early Christmas for rogues and many questions and concerns were addressed in one way or another.

AR / Prep change to “fix” subtlety, not nerf AR / Prep
“I understand your concern. With the holidays, it's unlikely we're going to have anything more for a short bit, but we'll work toward doing what we can to…  More

15 COMMENTS

Craptor said: what no pidgeon holing? has blizzard ever checked the talent build distribution of arena warriors or arena mages in the past ******* year?  its so... Hexd said: I agree... DAMN THESE ROGUE BLOGGERS DAMN THEM ALL. wsvg said: The changes just put rogues back to where they were.  Specced combat or mutilate with mobility problems.

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My Drink and My Twostep

When I think of 2v2 the first thing that comes to my mind is imbalanced. In particular class combinations that simply dominate the ladder, and though rogue / disc priest certainly isn’t in the weak category, I wouldn’t call it overpowered either. I started playing 2s with a priest, Engage of Smolderthorn, towards the end of season two. Now I’ve played priest / rogue before, both as shadow and holy though this time something was different. Perha…  More