Uhmmm...
8:34 AM
Okay, Boubouille over at MMO-Champion does not believe that the 4.0.6 patch will be deployed to live realms tomorrow. He is basing this on the fact that his inside sources have not told him that this would be the case, that he has a yet-to-be-deployed PTR build, and that there is no extended maintenance scheduled for tomorrow. Based on these facts, I think we can say without much doubt that tomorrow is not patch day. Horray! At least one week's reprieve from the cruel nerfbat. I can hold out hope that perhaps there will be a Hail Mary type patch where the shapeshifting nerfs are entirely reverted or some defensive cooldowns are added for Ferals. We shall see.
We picked up a Frost Mage yesterday for some 3v3 funsies. I haven't started recording yet, but I probably will soon. Feral+Frost+Disc is horribly fun and the control is pretty strong. I really like this comp more than run-downs like Kittycleave or DK+Feral+Healer just because your control is what defines your victories, not your ability to crunch unhealable damage into an opponent. I will, hopefully, have some videos of us grinding our rating up soon.
February 1, 2011 at 10:14 AM
well bro... I, for one, am glad that you're not hanging it up quite yet. My disco team mate has already suggested getting a frost mage for our 3s team. I would imagine the CC between you guys is pretty redonkulous.
So how are 2s going with you and guntir on the priest? I see that you're climbing steadily towards the 2100s. Whare are the comps that really make you want to throw your computer out the window? For us, right how, it would be aff lock and holy pally... although, any team that starts training on Syllei gets him down pretty quickly. I had better results when i was teamed up with a holy pally though, but he ended up transferring back to a better server for Australia.
We went up against againt a warrior/ resto shammy comp the other night, and were doing pretty well with putting pressure on the shammy, peeling the warrior, and mana burning the shammy. We were definitely making progress until lolstorm took my priest down. I probably made a mistake somewhere in there to allow that to happen. Overall, with the pretty hurting spot that priests are in at the moment, it's more frustrating than anything else.
I also wanted to thank you for championing our cause on the forums. If I had anything worthwhile to add, i would have donated my 2 cents weeks ago.
February 1, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Right now it's just double-dps (Lock+Rogue... they both have better self-healing than guntir, lawl) and Warrior+Healer teams that give us trouble.
Warriors can, at any moment, decide to pop all their cooldowns and kill a priest in a throwdown. Next patch, Priests will have better answers to this, but it's just crazy right now.
Warlock+Healer depends on the map and the skill of the healer. Warlock+Druid with a half-wit Resto Druid is auto-loss for us with warlocks taking insane healing and Druids never OOM'ing. This MIGHT be addressed better next patch... hard to tell.
We'll prolly continue our 2s next patch... MIGHT do 3s, but we'll have to see how hard the shapeshifting nerf hits us (my guess is really hard). Basically, Feral will only be viable with double-healer in 3s... and you'll need two really solid healers... and they'll have to hate themselves as much as I do.