I hit 1800 a few weeks ago… took a break to upgrade all my gear. Started trying to make the grind to 2100 but its been a nightmare. The comp I usually run is ret/warrior tried DH/warrior/hpal last night was going decent until we started running into double casters every single game Mostly warlock spriest, mage, or boomy. So we decided to hop in discord but it did not help much… even coordinating every kick spell reflect stun etc. we would still lose somehow either to chaos bolt spam or just mind games or something stupid. We could do everything correctly and still lose. Can someone explain how to counter double casters as double melee or is it even possible ?
This is not a thing. No one does everything correctly.
As for how to counter wiz cleave as a melee cleave, in general caster cleaves have countered melee but its not unwinnable. Are you guys running on dark soul and trying to stop mind games?
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yes we kick mind games every chance we get. the main problem is certain maps we just get kited around and forced out into the open. warlock just uses gate and slows to counter us over and over they play the long game until… one of us gets popped. its usually the healer or ret/dh who dies… i take overwatch and try to time my intervenes correctly
Ya that’s their gameplan, do you have the mass reflect leggo?
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no I use the exploiter legendary which is purely damage based. Maybe a good idea to get that one and run it agaisnt those comps and maybe draven soulbind for defense. But the problem is I am not the one dying because i can sit dstance… i try to keep my teamates alive but they get overwhelmed
Mass reflect leggo helps your partners alot.
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Why kick mind games if it is a destro lock? Just get dispelled at that point unless they’re like, stunning healer on the MG go there is very little to worry about. If your healer positions well he shouldn’t be feared much at all and destro has very small windows to get off damage anyways even with all the kiting without risking being clobbered.
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Most of the time, it’s about identifying the right kill target and burning through opponent cds as war/melee. Making swaps are essential when you notice a mistake, a trinket, or realize it’s much easier for you to get uptime on another target as opposed to your first target call. The rest of it is just making use of your utility and attempting to outplay your opponents if we were to assume there’s little to no gear disparity.
Part of that is being able to time your sharpen’s on kts for max pressure preventing them to heal through feasibly, while the other is preventing yourself from being controlled for too long by utilizing reflect, bladestorm, stormbolt, intim shout, intervene, war banner, etc… which also enables you to cross cc effectively vs casters if you can be punctual with them.
Realistically as war/ret you could even split till dampening since kiting a ret as a lock is fairly easy. Ret would have higher up time sitting spriest and be able to mitigate more damage via interrupts. Especially if the enemy healer is an rdruid you definitely would pressure the healer into healing two targets. The big cause of concern would be if your ret is out of spell reflect lego range or intervene and sets up a big go on your ret. Ret just has to be smart about that situation.
Just pick one caster and tunnel it down lol. Regarding mind games, don’t bother kicking it unless your healer is cc’d. A random mind games isn’t going to do anything and you are probably getting baited into kicking it.
If you did you wouldve won.
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Train the lock. They have weak defensive’s and yes they can port/gate/soulshape but you can leap/charge/stun and hit him for 15k+
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I will blow your mind with how to deal with locks…Leaper legendary. 100% uptime equals dead lock.
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This. You have plenty of gap closers, more closers than the lock has escapes. Once you connect to him he’s toast.
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This post smells of boosted to 1800.
Just the way hes describing things… doesnt sound right
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not rlly sounds like generic 1800 players to me
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you need to be rotating kicks, be mindful of your positioning, as dh war u have ranged stops for casts if youre being kited too so just be as disruptive as possible until you just win with the hunt or war dam
I wasn’t boosted Murk. Nice try. Sorry your hardstuck 1600. 500 games and still in 1300 yikes bro !
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Wow… not very nice man
Weren’t you dwarf yesterday?