Curious how other Destro handle 3 melee lobbies, or any tips or good videos about this? All I get is 3 melee in my lobbies so I figure I should see if there is something different, a different talent. I have heard many times about other destro not having a problem with, say, Warrior but I can’t seem to shake them off. For the most part, I can break even but seems I go on bad streaks, like tonight and lose 200 rating. Save the flaming for later, I’m an average player so there may not be much else I can do.
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Oh yes, I have that and shadow burn down. Incinerate a lot.
Make sure you get damage off, dont try and “over kite” and not get damage off. Trade your defensive CDs at high HP when unavoidable damage is coming. When you have wall up u cant be kicked, take advantage with bolts and fears. Save gate for spear into warrs specifically. When you port and a melee blindly chases you behind a pilar with no reguard for his life try and burst him solo… portals conflag conflag burn burn etc. Actually spell lock the healer (so many warlocks dont even do this). Again, do DAMAGE. Alot of locks will try to min max all the little things curses on all targets at all times, try to fear fear fear the healer or dps over and over, baby sit and hold GCDs for spell lock, focus way too hard on CC, and do no damage. None of that matters if you arent doing damage. Once ur comfortable with doing max damage, then try and work in other things. Keeping amp weakness up on a DPS, CC, kiteing, etc.
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I’ll be honest, when it’s double melee, I sac the VW for the 30% max health 
I do try to damage as I kite. Could be better with my positioning and when to portal/gate etc.
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Triple melee is a bad time.
I never enjoy it, even when i win.
It’s an uphill battle, just do your best.
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Copy my class talent setup, it has amp curse, short cd wall and short cd pact.
I take soulburn, you can use soulburn with healthstone for a big heal and use it for instant gates and speed when you port, so it’s real handy for kiting and living.
Short cd wall can be up almost every minute if you’re being tunneled and taking big hits.
Short cd pact is huge just make sure to use it the instant they touch you, if they have damage cds up you don’t want to use it under 100% hp because then the shield is weak.
You can also take the battlemaster trinkets, just an extra defensive.
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It depends entirely on your team member, if they can utilise not been trained (because you are) and freely pump damage and peels you should be able to survive long enough to win the round. But you need good healers and good peels.
Which is why I argue it’s actually easier to play at higher mmr than lower mmr. Better team mates means you can stand a better chance.
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Wet loud farts keep the melee away.
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from what i’ve seen you just instantly win playing destro afk pressing 3 buttons
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Trippe melee lobbies are rough. This is the first time ive ever played a lock, but the best advice i can give is try to bait the dps away from their healer they want to train you and they will eventually tunnel vision away from their healer.
Set your focus to your dps teammate and keep the damage on his target to put extended pressure on their dps to force them into bad possitions. Wall on big CDs and use the freecast to pump and fear.
Sometimes its just a crappy lobby, try to sneak out a few wins and requeue
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I dont mind them as destro. i make sure conflag and shadowburn are always on cooldown. keep immolate on main target and pump incinerates. if they’re kicking fire a lot ill just spam fears to force out kicks. i dont kite much i kinda just stand there and pump damage and a lot of times people are forced to leave, thats usually when ill try to go for bolts but if i dont have a chance to bolt i dont really press it much. using coil on havoc procs is huge.
as far as “shaking them off” you’re not really able to most of the time. you can port big cds, gate out of spear, but that doesn’t mean you really get away, its just a second or two of breathing room. to some degree you need to be getting damage out even if it feels like you’re getting slammed. i dont kite a lot unless my healer is cc’d or having a hard time catching up. when im using instants i will kite them away from my port to get distance for the next time its off cd.
idk tbh just pump damage, take advantage of havoc into coil, and if they let you breathe for two seconds delete someone.
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Thanks for the tips. I’ve tried everything, just standing there and damage, tried kiting. As I said I usually break even but this weekend was rougher than most for some reason. Lots of double warrior lobbies.
Voidwalker sac, high IQ gate/port placement, and casting circle. I don’t see much people use casting circle but when I am main focus it helps a lot.
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Yes I did try that for a few matches. And I do VW sac when it’s all melee, which sucks for not being able to interrupt healers. High IQ gate/port placement, that does help until it doesn’t. When you have two warriors gunning for you, well…
Theres no way you run voidwalker sac, kick is way too important.
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Yea that’s probably part of my problem, but when I die it’s not like anyone was close to dead lol. I think I just had a really bad streak this weekend. Been running these a lot the past couple weeks and this was my first time tanking this much.
Yea I know it sucks. Depends on the maps too. I went 5-1 or 6-0 the few games I played today and maybe 1 game wasn’t all melee.
I try to establish dominates the first round and show them I don’t die and hopefully make them realize they should be focusing on someone else. In reality it’s not true, but it’s definitely a mind game. Also I throw in reverse psychology the next round and be like “you guys should’ve sat X instead” lmao…
Trust me tho if it’s all melee that just focus me immediately and they are decent or just DK that can face roll properly. I’m going 1-5 or 0-6 every time. I feel the pain. With the qs this long it should be able to always match 2 heals, 2 caster, 2 melee but I’m dreaming
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Maybe the next season. I am sure the melee hate facing 3 caster lobbies just as much. It’s pretty crazy. I really don’t blame any melee for sitting a destro. We hurt otherwise.
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If melee zugzug is good enough I’m only trying to survive while the healer joins in on the action. Last thing I’m thinking about is kicking. I’ve only been destro a week and casually playing sitting at about 1900. I’ve still got a lot to learn but the vw has saved me multiple times.
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