April Fools!
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I agree nerf DH
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Ever since the tank trinket nerfs, arena has never been the same. 
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No crucible of storms D:
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No one to call sanc! 
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Remember when I told everyone that we would live in a caster meta, and melee as a whole would become obsolete? I hate being right all the time, since it definitely seems like I’m pretty pessimistic. But honestly, I think it’s more of being realistic.
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Nobody outside of some idiot like Heckingdoggo ever would’ve claimed that Hogwarts wasn’t dominant, and they have been since the rounds of nerfs in S1.
People just find it funny your claim to being #1 Ret was when all your competition couldn’t be bothered to play, and that you were boosted by CoS gear so badly you had to have someone call sancs for you at 2400.
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It’s actually the healer’s job to dictate defensive CD management for the entire party. Sanc is essentially a trinket. It’s best not to waste it when I have full HOTs rolling on me, and am in no fear of dying.
That’s why the healer is supposed to call out when to Sanc them.
And it applies to more than just Sanc. It applies to any defensive CD. If you just press defensive CDs whenever you feel like it, or better said, when they were ultimately unnecessary, you’ll find yourself without the defensives when you need them the most.
Example: Ever notice that healers call out when for their Mage to Iceblock? Etc.
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See, this is the rank 1 of all the western Hemisphere Ret tactics folks.
Be happy he even graces these forums
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Awesome, i’m a better player now.
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Glad I could help.
There’s more viable melee cleaves or even melee caster than there are wizard cleaves
Mage lock is the only double caster comp that’s really ever played and it’s weaker this season
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There are more Destros and Fires combined than there are WWs, Havocs, Arms, Unholys, and Rets combined, in the top 10,000 players, according to Arenamate.
Just the top two caster specs, when pooled together, outnumber the top 5 melee specs all combined. (Excluding Rogues ofc. They’re a special breed of class. 
) That’s a yikes.
That’s because destros and fire synergize and work with any of those classes, they’re the core of those comps but again it’s only those two wizards anyways, the others aren’t necessarily as strong.
Objectively though there are still more stronger melee than there are wizards, and again there are more t1 melee cleaves than wizard cleaves - the only wizard cleave that’s existed is MLD which isn’t as good as it was before.
Representation is a poor tool for arguments anyways.
What’s the point of playing any of those A-B tier melee comps, when you autolose to an equally skilled S tier caster comp? Sure, there are more melee comps within the A and B tier categories, but there are more caster comps within the S tier category. And therein lies the problem.
Mld is excellent and so is spriest/lock/x.
I don’t know how you could say they’re worse than last season.
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
Unsure how you can’t understand both mages and locks being nerfed makes the comp less viable…
Dude you play double lock 3s.
I can’t take you seriously at all.
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Melee casters are the only prevalent S tier comps man, the only wizard cleave has been MLD which is way worse now and there are plenty of S tier melee cleaves too
Rogue mage actually hasn’t even won a tourney finals this season (they have made the finals ofc though). The tourney winners on this patch have been MW warrior x or MW WW X, x being a destro, ww or fire mage
More melee cleave teams in general have had success this patch than double wizards really
Even on ladder it’s the same thing high end, mld is mostly rare at this point, it’s either rogue mage, destro melee (generally ww) or a melee cleave.
Idk where you’re even getting your info from cause you’re clearly not even playing the game lol
There’s way more answers to MLD this season especially because of corruption helping some teams push through druids and the strength of MW monks help a ton, splay isn’t tier one at all, it’s a good low end ladder comp and good into specific things but performs poorly vs many of the other meta comps (destro melee, mage melee, monk cleaves)
MLD was really powerful the previous seasons because win conditions could be impossible from other teams and unfavorable matchups hardly existed. Meta has just changed. MLD is worse because of it. I dislike fighting MLD, it’s not an enjoyable game for me to play but I can recognize it is objectively much weaker now.
I’ve also queued Splay and RLS this season.
I think I need to set the record straight again for you clownshoes. I play an rdruid in 2s and mostly do it with a destro lock because I’m comfortable running that in 2v2. In doing so I have made a lot of destro friends because my Rdruid is usually within 100cr of my main’s rating in 2s. Therefore I know a lot of destro locks.
But apparently you all would like to think rather than playing with people I know who have proven they don’t lick windows and eat paint chips I would rather go to LFG, sit for 3 hours waiting on someone bored to queue LFG with because that’s what you have to do because you have no friends. Get over it.