Last edited by mmoc771d918182; 2014-02-13 at 04:46 PM.
It is absolutely none of your business and has absolutely nothing to do with my comment, but we're currently not doing progression because our hpally is unable to play atm. I've never been or claimed to be a hardcore player, we're an extremely casual team of baddies and I'm quite satisfied with our 10/14H without having to raid 15+ hrs, switch specs, jump guilds, etc.
Nevertheless, I lurk a lot, for the fun of it and for the lazyness of knowing beforehand what good players are doing right. You can read interviews with the actual hardcore players, check their logs, watch their streams, see their roster comps, etc. Not once have I seen them "adjusting strategy" to rank during MoP, sorry. Maybe there are good players around with the need to overcompensate for their shortcomings and rank, but I'm fairly certain they're not the standard.
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Pretty much this, particularly for a spec and an expansion where RNG and douchebaggery weigh more than good gameplay when ranking.
Thanks Shadowy. I see some Spriests in LFR, but they are usually doing quite well. I also see that almost every other Heal Priest besides myself is Disc.
If Blizzard didn't want to buff Spriest damage to put it in line with other "pure" dps classes, then I think the right approach would be to make them the defacto utility dps again. Maybe not mana battery (OR MANA BATTERY FOR MEEEE), but even just providing a party wide haste/crit/mastery/some other really cool buff. Unfortunately, I just don't think it's going to happen in their current mindset. They have neutered so many of the hybrid buff providers in the name of homogenization. Our only hope is 20man Mythic balancing, allowing Spriest, Enh Shaman, Boomkins to provide very specific buffs to their party/group.
Or they could just fix Spriest rng/damage.
Is that your own assumption? Because the last sentence makes no sense. They know that they are better and that's why they go for ranks to show it - both kill and WoL ranks. If doesn't matter if you or I think ranks are irrelevant, different people are driven by different things.
I've heard myself guilds talking about doing it on streams and been in guilds that had the same approach.
So I don't know much about the guilds you've been in, but the reality is that there are a lot that are doing it like the example Surarn mentioned. Maybe you've just not encountered the ones that are partaking in such activities.
And I never said that ranking was the #1 incentive for them to raid, but since they are clearing the whole tier in 2-3 hours they might as well do it when they're at it.
Last edited by kardacz; 2014-02-13 at 06:46 PM.
yea they are
Shadowpriest is unplayable in high rated 3v3 arenas without druid due to worst survivability of any spec ingame.
#1 Priority for a buff for me at least.
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We are dead to blizz and we will always be, its all becouse numbers ppl dont play shadow and that is all there is to it. Good Game much love No More Such disappointed
People play shadow. Lots of people. That may be one of the problems. It has one of the best communities with information/support available which skews the data blizzard uses for tuning. If we could all just suck for a few months, and complain a lot, we'd be the new mage. pew pew win.