Although the Global Finals are a few days passed... I haven't had a chance to write up any thoughts about it yet so I figured I'll give you a few of my thoughts on it before moving on to other topics.

Obviously overall I had a great time at the event as we were able to win it, and I would have to say that although this years event was plagued by DDOS attacks which created massive delays on the first day, and some of the second that the event was overall better than the previous years.  We were th…  More

As the other writers have said, Blackrock has been the worst server to play on due to latency issues. Vicious Cycle has taken quite a few hits to our raiding team because of this, the lag has forced us to halt raids and attempt whatever boss is more "doable" with the handicap. With some of our raiders having to practice for the upcoming ESL Global Finals Tournament, we've really been struggling to fill raids. If anyone wants to raid with the #1 PvE/PVP guild, send an application to Trancey on Bl…  More

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A lot of you have asked me to do a post on Pokemon, so I've finally decided to do so.  This could be a fairly long post, so for those of you who have tl;dr scroll to the bottom for the wrap up.  Pokemon is a much bigger game than you realize.  Yes, a lot of it has to do with the whole "Gotta' Catch Em' All" deal, but it's much deeper once you get into it.  I would even go as far as to say the game is as deep as WoW Arenas, but that's my personal opinion, we'll have to see what you think after re…  More

I would like to enlighten you what true e-sport really is. After reading "The E-Sport: The next big thing in entertainment, or just a fad?" and some comments it is very clear that most of you have no idea what you are all talking about. Don't worry, I will fix you.

Challenge anyone!
Now, one of very first and basic rules of a true competitive game is that I can challenge anyone no matter where he lives - as long he has internet connection, we can play together. Doesn't matter if it's CS, q3 or any…  More

I don't know who first came up with that quote, but it's something you can't disagree with. Being a Warrior, there is one stat that you basically have to stack, and is not given on any piece of PvP gear, and that is - obviously - armor penetration, the holy grail of our class.

Having a prot spec helps obtaining PvE gear by a large margin, even though my tanking gear is way below the line at this point (around 4700 gear score), it has served me well …  More

Good-Bye Draek

About two months ago, WoM let go of it's most popular/controversial writer because of his lack of communication and a steep decline in blog quality. Ming went through a selection process of trying to find a villain-esque writer to replace Serennia. I considered the position back then but the timing was not right, following in Vance's footsteps would hurt my pride for reasons dating back to when we played 5s in TBC with Zilea.

Since I've started writing for WoM, I have attempted to c…  More

Hello All,

I had a few spare minutes to think about the progression of Arena pvp throughout the course of WoW, and I thought I'd take the discussion that some friends and I have been having recently over to WoWRiot, to see if I could get a few of you to weigh in on it. I've been reading WoWRiot for quite some time now, but this is my first post to date. I felt it was a discussion that warranted opening up to what I consider to be a sophisticated and intelligent community.

Since Arena combat first…  More

Saw the patch notes yesterday before going to bed, and I just waited until I see people who don't understand how this class/spec works to jump on the "TO THE GROUND" bandwagon. Needless to say, now that I've woke up, I'm not disappointed.

Shield Slam nerf does NOTHING. What it does in fact is reducing the damage with 2 pieces of t10 to damage it did before set bonus, and that's if you were wearing any shield block value in PvP to begin with. If you did not, and many people didn't, shield slam wil…  More

Intro

There is a notion today surrounding blizzard philosophy that damage is not the puree determinant of Arena/Battleground PvP, the recent resilience buff nothing more than proves the design with which they wish to balance the game. My qualm however, does not extend to the confines of what constitutes "burst" damage or sustained damage. Instead I'd like to discuss what I believe is the fundamental focus of PvP Damage: Effective Damage.

What Is Effective Damage

Effective Damage in a nutshell is …  More

The moment I hit the magical Publish button here, I'll probably get a 500% increase in haters from this community, but damn it, even if it's going to make me die and go straight to hell at this very moment, I'm going to do it anyway. There is this guy who's playing a Rogue, let's name him Ching. Now he is a very talented player, a good writer and a valuable human being overall as I assume, but sometimes, just sometimes, he explodes with tears whenever his beloved (like he isn't biased at all) cl…  More

So we have another resilience change this expansion already announced:

We are currently in the process of applying a hotfix to buff resilience. While some modifications may be made, we intend to have this buff in effect for the remainder of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

The change will double the value of resilience in reducing damage done by players. So depending on their current amount of resilience, characters might experience a 10 to 20% decrease in damage taken from other players. The…  More

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mung said: Yes.... I was soloing resto druids.  That's the difference between a 1800 player and a 2300 player in BC: the 2300 player just killed the healer, t... Kaeroth said: Sorta my point. People don't need to be unkillable, just hard enough to kill that it requires you to use your cooldowns and CCs and interrupts and ... Terhix said: They absolutely shouldn't be able to heal through that. If a team jumps on one target, that is low on hp, and blow their cooldowns, it should die. ...

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I wish a Warrior team would win some arena tournament and people would say stuff like "man that guy is a bad ass, he plays like a ******* ninja" instead of "ROFL BLADESTORM THE PRIEST ON ROV MOAR SCRUB".



Arms takes near no to no skill at all, we are just a bit above elemental lavaburst spammers really. In fact, so hated "facerolling" Protection spec has skill cap light years ahead of Arms (it doesn't mean it's hard to play, just that there is a huge gap between good Prots and bad Prots). So when…  More

The European Championship Finals are over and we saw a ton of great matches throughout the weekend. ESL TV was very fast with uploading all the VODs from the past two days and I'll go ahead and provide you with all the links:

Groupstage

Playday 1: H2k 1:3 SK Europe - Rocknroll Pigtails 0:3 Team Dignitas - SK Sansibar 3:0 plan B - x6tence 3:1 iNNERFiRE

Playday 2: H2k 2:3 Team Dignitas - Rocknroll Pigtails 3:1 SK Europe - SK Sansibar 3:0 iNNERFiRE - x6tence 3:2 plan B

Playday 3: plan B 2:3 iNNERFiRE -…  More