The games we lost I'd have to say the RNG just wasn't in our favor. However, we kept a good 3:1 or better winning ratio.
#The reflex arena series
The only Double-DPS comp we've actually had a good series against and lost was a SPriest/Rogue named Kaziel & Digimortal. Also, Vorrent was not Dreamstate for that - I forget which resto spec he was at the time. It was a close match, but the new strategy seemed a lot more solid. At the time, I was on the warrior, and the warrior was on Vorrent. It came down to a hit or two deciding we were the winners. Toward the end of the fight, both teams were OOM and I ended up sitting on the warrior and praying that my mitigation outweighed his. He probably hoped that we would use the same old strategy. This proved effective, perhaps because the shaman wore a considerable amount of PvE gear. Even then, I would only break so that Vorrent could re-establish his CC rotations on the warrior. I would only break off the shaman when Vorrent called for a peel. This involved me opening on the shaman and sticking to him as long as possible, while Vorrent CCed the warrior. We recently ran into them again, and decided to employ our own general strategy of applying pressure wherever we could inflict the most damage. However with GC and Hoodrych, we eventually found this strategy inadequate, although we still managed to beat them a fair amount of times. If all goes well, your team's damage output will be too stressful for the shaman to heal efficiently, and he should be out of mana long before your druid.
#The reflex arena plus
It's a plus if your druid can take out Poison Cleansing totems with some Rank One Moonfire. You will both be watching the shaman to prevent heals and drinks. Moonkin Form also lets you maximize DPS on the enemy warrior. While this is going on, your druid is HoTting your rogue up, and then using Moonkin Form to avoid possible burst damage from Intercept. Use Evasion when the warrior is forced to stay on you for example, after an Intercept has been countered. Kidney Shot the warrior after Intercepts, and keep Ghostly Strike up whenever the warrior is on you. After that, it's a simple process of keeping Wounding and Crippling shivved up. First, open hard on the warrior, and apply bleeds and DoTs to the druid. Your druid is likely specced Dreamstate, or a similar Balance-heavy healing spec, while your rogue is any standard Shadowstep spec with 5/5 Vile Poisons. I'll go into further detail about that strategy. This is a strategy that would likely do wonders versus any other Warrior/Shaman. That makes it near impossible to employ the simple strategy of locking the warrior down, and DPSing him to run the shaman out of mana.
They spec for fighting us and use choice PvE gear for their shaman. In terms of Healer/DPS teams, there is only one challenge we've run into this season, and that is GC and Hoodrych (a Warrior and Resto Shaman).
Reflex : In 2v2, we prefer to run Druid/Rogue. WoW Insider: What challenges does your team have? How do you prefer to run your comp? Take a look after the jump to see what he had to say. WoW Insider was able to catch up with Reflex while he was rocking out in Warsong Gulch, and he was willing to take the time to answer some questions for The Colosseum. And this isn't their first season doing so - Reflex carries the coveted " Vengeful Gladiator" title. So, Passive Enemies is indisputably a strong team, with a powerful showing in the 2-person Arena. SK Gaming's arena ranking tool reveals that they have third highest rating in the USA region. Our goal is to bring a better understanding of the strategy, makeup, and work that goes into duelling it out for fame, fortune, and Netherdrakes.Īt the time of this article's posting, Passive Enemies is the #1 team in the 2v2 ladder on the Reckoning Battlegroup. The Colosseum takes us inside the world of the Gladiator (Brutal, Vengeful, Merciless and otherwise), to interview some of the top Arena fighters in the battlegroups.