SOD players showed up and DOMINATED Alterac Valley today. What an exemplary display of skill, I saw SOD superstars winning 10v1’s. Is the skill gap really that big?
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What ridiculous low effort ragebait trolling.
I still expect a legion of NPCs with room temp IQ and no internal monologue to fall for it, dont worry.
But do better. Be better.
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Imagine being 1 of 10 Freshers and not knowing how to kick a single SoD Shaman.
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SOD players do not have 10x the health of a freshman. SOD players obviously should have won but I didn’t think at the scale of 10v1s? I saw tons of low level plays, lack of cc, interrupts etc.
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But the bait is tasty. and I had a light lunch since on errands…so hungry.
Wonder how many sod folks were actually good carriers though. I’ve seen twink matches during wrath classic series you’d think your sides naxx twinks locked a win.
Nope…
You get the people who probably were paid/nepotism HR or gdkp. as the other sides drops em easy too lol.
Retail players have infested Classic 
I got crit by a stray multi shot and it killed me from full. SoD is wild
Sod players have many skills and bonuses that improve their character power much more drastically than a vanilla players.
So yes they are just more skilled
The SoD players absolutely were very skilled on pressing a random key between 1-5 on their busted WOTLK abilities that somehow ended up in vanilla.
Let’s do an AV conbined with Cata players and I am sure they are even more “skillful” than SoDers.
I heard a SOD player beat Usain Bolt’s world speed record.
I was there today, a Sod God buffed me at one point and entered the fray, Im still trembling.
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oh dude come on they have aq gear and revamped abilities. are you serious?
i mean yes but not for any of those reasons.
SoD players power scaling is pushing wrath of the lich king levels and they have more CC breaks, mitigation abilities, and gap closers. of course, fresh characters are going to get steamrolled.
But yes, they are likely on average more skilled because they are used to playing a faster paced game that hasn’t been completely solved and contains more variability. same way the floor is a lot higher in retail then either fresh or SoD. but this point is largely irrelevant because of power scaling imbalance overshadowing skill based play anyway.
more skills yes, they’ve borrowed some from retail
They want retail to be relatively easy to engage the most people.
I think you’re statements true up to mythic content.
You out here catching strays from fights you aren’t even part of.
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Rip for those players that fought a shaman tank from sod. The damage could be like 15 dmg per hit and self killed by thorns set
the game i was in was
40 alliance fresh
vs 37 horde fresh + 3 crusader strike players (1 r6 resto druid and 2x r13 prot warriors)
somehow the horde still managed to lose, even with the prot warriors camping drek, in some ways it was impressive
i killed myself attacking the prot warrior, he had some ability that shows as “damage shield +100” on details, i guess he has a thorns trinket of some description
They added whole thorns sets as new crafting recipes with AQ40. sounds like razerspike headcage if it was 100 damage ‘Razorspike Headcage - Item - Classic World of Warcraft’
Imagine living through charging the shaman.